I’d still rather listen to this than [insert overrated band here].

Here’s that Volkswagon parody she created. It’s a doozy.

Throughout the entire episode, Williamson talks about Avatar with the kind of reverence usually reserved for sacred texts.

That's the longest Cameron has ever talked to a woman without cheating on his wife with her.

I don’t need anything more from MBV...I try to listen to their other albums and then stop and listen to “Loveless” again instead...if they make something else great that would be great but I’m okay

Like...who the fuck PICKED this? Was Sean Spicer not answering his calls?

The week hosted by Rudy Giuliani is gonna be rough.

i just can’t see any way in which disney pulls off a compelling origin story for someone who’s life goal is to skin 101 puppies and wear their skin. 

that’s the origin story of a john wick villain

And WHERE is LeVar Burton?? Honest to god, Jeopardy.

Maybe, but could any other actor have handled 1994 VR with such aplomb?

That era where Michael Douglas was the star of all the sex thrillers was nasty.  I don’t know how he kept getting cast in those since he has always looked like Larry King’s stunt double.

Yeah, as an actor that’s not what chemistry really is. If anything IRL couples often have poor or boring chemistry—romantic chemistry (there are different types of chemistry between actors) is often there are still things to discover between the two and that energy drives the scenes. You can develop chemistry by…

Could’ve been worse.

It was a series of things, first Sorcerer, then this, then finally One From The Heart which killed Zoetrope.

That, and I feel like critics were beginning to sour on some of the tropes of the New Hollywood. We look back on it as a golden age and it was generally pretty good for movies but some of the relentless dourness was wearing on people. Like the downer ending on this one feels kinda like it’s just there to be a downer-…

It’s also such a different movie from The Deer Hunter and maybe he just needed some stepping stones. A lot of the 70s Film Brats went on to do things farther from where they started but not quite as quickly or extremely. 

I don’t disagree, but it does seem like an act of hubris on Cimino’s side when you read about production and where he dug his heels in and the allegations around his behavior. It may just be the Cimino was not the guy who should have free reign on a movie. Maybe he just needed better/different collaborators because I…

It reads like a talented man high on his own success.  The Greeks themselves couldn't write a better morality fable then this.

I feel in this, as with many historical epics, the pomp and pageantry kind of overwhelms things- it makes it harder to relate and connect to the story at its heart. Like Cimino clearly wanted to get into the culture and community of these immigrant ranchers, as he did with the steeltown folks in Deer Hunter, but they…

I liked Heaven’s Gate alright, but I think I had more fun reading Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven’s Gate written by former United Artists studio exec Stephen Bach. The beginning of the book goes into what was sort of different about United Artists as a studio in general, but mostly Bach goes…