I liked First Class (despite it stepping on comic tradition) but I thought Days of Future Past was a bit of a mess.

Eh, does anybody really care?

I think that film needs somebody to take charge and ultimately be the deciding force for it. There should be room for creative vision in the individual components but when those ideas are in conflict you need somebody to come in and say "We're doing this". Now, you're right that it doesn't have to the director, it's…

Underrated in the circles that I run through (snarky internet blogs) who gives a fuck about the Oscars? Perhaps overlooked is a better word. She's quite good, but I don't really see her name mentioned in the greatest working actors of our time lists (which I think she deserves).

I've realized that the formative moments of my aesthetic development happened when I was between 5-10 and I've basically been riding the consequences of those ever since.

Think of it like how the executive branch works.

Most people can watch Walken or Connery, so I think bitching about accents is real silly.

Oooff, that was her, wasn't it?

Is Indonesia's film business a big deal? I understand it's a pretty populous country (quarter of a billion ain't nothing) but I really don't know much more about it than that.

It definitely seems like there are expectations in the 'indie' field and they seem to me just as restrictive (in their own way) as Hollywood's formulas.

I see indie as a pejorative term, and while I see how the Raid hits all the checkpoints for it (in the sense that it was an independently produced film using relative unknowns) I feel uncomfortable calling it 'indie'.

Really wouldn't call The Raid an indie film.

I feel like Natalie Portman has a real gift for elevating stupid/ridiculous dialogue into something that…if you don't believe it you believe that she believes it. Maybe it's corny or trite, but it comes across as the trite shit a person might say, not a hack screenwriter.

It's a weird show to analyze politically because it doesn't really portray anybody as being decent other than nerds (evil government guys, evil military, evil corporate guys, evil rednecks, evil suburban folk…)

The show is a bit of a weird Libertarian paranoia fest. I mean, it is Fox…

Will we…perhaps get closure or revelation?

Hopefully the character/story and the gameplay shouldn't be these two distinct entities but rather a unified whole.

The term petulant child gets thrown around so much I feel like it's lost some if not most of its value, but I feel like that word applies to Harmon and Kanye. They've yet to realize that the areas that contain "What they want to do" and "What society is okay with them doing" are not equivalent, and they get…

I'm not really a Kanye fan, so that's a differing value.

I've been looking for a base line for a scale I've been creating (like the Mendoza line) basically the ratio of talent to dickery, Harmon might work as a guy who's equal in both how good he is and how much of a douchebag he is.