this is right up there with Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas or The King’s Speech over The Social Network.

I have had to listen to such cynical BS criticism about this movie for years. People are so jaded. I love it too and not just because Gump is so likable, but because he is -essentially - a tour guide walking us through contemporary American history.

The thing with Nolan is he wants to make standard genre films with a fun conceptual twist, but he often underestimates how much more fun the conceptual twist is than the genre film he’s trying to spice up. It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that Inception isn’t a movie about dream shenanigans, it’s a…

The Nolan bashing started with Dark Knight Rises and continued with Interstellar because he lost some important collaborators who helped make his earlier stuff work, he got big enough that people stopped telling him “no,” and he already got to use a lot of his dream project ideas earlier in his career.

And as…

Eraserhead is about the terror of being a new father, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are about murderers trying to rationalize their actions to themselves before becoming overwhelmed with guilt, Inland Empire is... who the fuck knows, and the rest (Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, The…

But Nolan has a history of making films that people find confusing that aren’t actually that confusing, and now he’s made one which is pretty incoherent at times and people are acting as though it’s all part of the experience.

I saw this yesterday and I’ll say it’s better than the reviews let on. It’s fun in a shaggy-dog kinda way–just like the first two. Paine and Weaving steal the film–they are separated from B&T for most of the movie but the opening scene wonderfully establishes how much they are their fathers’ daughters, so it’s…

“look over there at the worse political power! Pay no attention to what we’re doing!"

Call of Duty: Accounting Division.

You play as a marketing executive having to launch the Big Mac and rap music on an unsuspecting 1980s Russia.

And deficit military spending.

So I assume this isn’t a shooter then, cause I know enough history to recognize that we won the Cold War via economics and cultural spread.

Oh boy I wonder how they'll rewrite history and scrub out any of the US's war crimes or terrible choices and instead make missions where Russia does the same thing and you gotta fight em!

I guess the jury is still out on that one.

It’s quite impressive (ie depressing) that this makes no mention of the fact that it’s based on a short story by Simon Rich (Man Seeking Woman, Miracle Workers), I expect so little from the AV Club these days but it still manages to disappoint!

Neighbor: Oh, that’s just great! Now there’s two of them with that stupid laugh!!

It’s the dude tweeting about it that’s the asshole here. Why is everyone roasting the woman? 

Joker had bigger crowds.  ;)

Yeah, but you can almost sort of relate to people finding the Joker charismatic.

One template I didn’t like that was kept across nearly modern day superhero movies, which was killing off the villain at the end. As a comic book nerd I wanted the possibility of Batman fighting Joker again or Spider-Man taking on Doctor Octopus again. Killing the bad guy at the end made it too neat and tidy.