Wow. I thought Grand Budapest Hotel was deeply sad and moving.

I find a lot of Nolan’s work - and especially The Dark Knight - to be very emotionally engaging. The final Two-Face hostage sequence is as heartbreaking as it is tense, to give one example.

Oh come on Raul Julia was really good.

Really impressive how that silent film managed to capture the 80's so well.

His character goes out heroically, if I remember correctly. He sacrifices himself so the rest of the team can get onboard.

He “stars alongside” for about 25 minutes...

Raul Julia didn’t slouch in this role. He was a credit to the industry.

I do remember the solution to the mystery being legitimately surprising.

I had a really hard time with Airframe.

This particular filmmaker is Under Pressure from quite a few things, many of them stemming from his actions outside of this movie.

It would’ve been Star Wars. If Jaws had been a bomb it wouldn’t have prevented Lucas from making his movie.

I also always read a bit of “oh God, my political career is over” in Hamilton’s performance.

Shaw is also unforgettable as Red Grant in From Russia with Love.

Muldoon and Arnold were bad guys? What about the poor worker at the beginning who gets dragged into the raptor cage?

Spielberg’s sense of spatial awareness for his characters/cars is so strong, that it makes up for the fact that their surroundings make little sense.

The Quint death is so horrible that, for many years, I missed the perfect-for-character detail of him wildly stabbing the shark with the machete as he’s massacred. Even as he’s doomed, he goes down trying to kill the thing.

I always read it as he just panicked and swam away to hide while the shark was tied up with the cage. I found it plausible.

Yeah, the Luca backstory stuff is sheer nightmare. It’s not in the movie, but I always imagine that background is there for the character when I watch it. It makes the small moment when Tom ushers the playing children away from Luca (when he’s in Don Vito’s office) resonate a lot more.

Here’s what I remember from Congo:

Yeah that was a good bit from the book that didn’t make it to the movie. And losing Muldoon hurts - but it’s supposed to. “Clever girl” is an iconic fright moment.