That clip made me realize that Newman was just Eddie Haskell all grown up.

Honestly, getting Spielberg out of the director’s chair (and Lucas away from the typewriter) are the two main factors that have me optimistic about this new Indy film.  (the great cast is the third.)

I think this falls quite comfortably under the “don’t hate the player, hate the game” classification.

And, really, we could leave it right there (Maybe for good! That would be nice!)

Smith for me has inhabited the same space as Tom Cruise for a number of years now. I presume they are actual flesh and blood but they barely resemble recognizable human beings, and are so walled off that whatever we see of them in public is a staged and scripted performance.

There’ll be an Oscars.  Whether it will be broadcast, there’s the real question.  But I hear radio is growing in popularity...

Well, that and the literal award they gave him later that night.

Weirdly optimistic of them to think there is still going be an “Oscars” in ten years.

Seems fair; Chris Rock suffered no permanent injury.

Perfectly executed movie. It would be good if you took it out of its setting and just did a classic noir. But in the high school setting it all becomes a metaphor for the secret lives of teenagers, and the relatability of that in turn makes it a better noir.

My mistake - they were all so long it’s hard for me to distinguish one from another.

Oh fuck yeah. He’s got so much raw young hungry actor energy in that one and the movie utilized that perfectly, distilled it right into the character.

Another vote for Brick here. A well-executed concept with great performances, and rewatchable as hell.

I remember reading about “Brick” on this very site and it happened to be playing that one night only at our local historic ‘art house’ theatre. So Mrs. F. and I trundled off the see it and it was fantastic.

Why not both?

I don’t get the impulse behind film prosthetics anyway. I mean maybe if you want John Lithgow to look like Rupert Murdock, I can see it. People know what Murdock looks like, plus he’s gross so you want to capture that. But William H. Macy made up to look like a Klingon in The Dropout, in order to resemble a person…

Probably a feed-back loop of both.

I really liked JGL in Brick. I’d recommend people go watch Brick. 

I rewatched Looper somewhat recently and found the make-up distracting. A lot of the movie works for me, including both Levitt and Willis’ performances, but at some point I wondered why they didn’t just cast people who looked more alike.

In either case, it seems to be an issue that requires treatment by a trained health care professional, and not just a case of Miller being an asshole or a dick who simply needs to be fired, as some posters upthread seem to have concluded. Reports of other behavior on The Flash set (if they are complete and to be…