Funny, because she’s largely using the same voice here. But I don’t understand the criticism of her voice in Hudsucker. She was doing a stereotypical fast-talking dame, a la Katharine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell. I also watched His Girl Friday last month. There’s no question that that’s what she and the Coens were goi…

This is for all you old farts: I read in an article in Vanity Fair that Jennifer Jason Leigh said that one of her main inspirations in creating Lorraine was William F. Buckley. Now that I’ve read that, I can’t unsee it! She sits sprawling on a chair like him, and has that same upper-class drawl as him. I never saw it…

What’s Up Doc actually ends with O’Neal himself mocking the signature line of Love Story, saying it’s the stupidest thing he’s ever heard. And that was just two years later, to give an idea of how quickly the movie evolved from beloved romantic classic to campy mess.

Lee Garvin is Fred Garvin’s cousin.

I gotta say, I was curious how they were going to treat one of the few minorities represented as such in the Dahl books, which was troublesome in the books, to say the least. For example, Burton did a really good job with Deep Roy in that regard.

It’s very good. The scenes with Bogosian and Anderson (who is amazing) really elevate the whole thing as it allows Anderson to interrogate the whole thing, including the differences between the show and the movie/book.

I disagree with this first point. I didn’t really find it had a lot of “padding,” more that there was an enrichment of the characters and their world.

This is the only cool thing I’ve ever heard about James Cameron as a human being

I don’t think I agree with you there. I haven’t seen Falling Down since it was in heavy rotation on IFC in the aughts, but one thing I remember (or maybe misremember) about the scene was that it wasn’t clear to me that, for all his preparations, the Frederic Forrest character had actually ever taken violent racist…

Call it on the nose if you will, but it’s a title that fits. Not only is D-FENS on a downward spiral throughout the film, but he believes his world, everything he built his life around (being a good provider, a hard worker, an upstanding citizen) is falling down around him. His attempts to prop up his crumbling sense…

I’m guilty in my recent post of spelling Frederic Forrest’s name with a k too. Sorry. But it does let me point this out - that man is one of the best actors. Always, no matter the movie. As you point out, Hammett wasn’t great - he was. Same with The Two Jakes. I first saw him in When the Legends Die (and no, I don’t…

The problem with the movie, then and now, is that it too eagerly invites the audience to cheer for most of what he does. The biggest way that it was ahead of its time is that it was practically designed to be carved up into clips for YouTube and social media consumption. Each scene is a little daily frustration that a…

but the movie tells you outright that his whole walk across LA was to murder his ex-wife and daughter

I’d guess “Senior in high school” explains that. I remember basically the same thing. Everyone (my age) thought he was awesome, especially for the McDonalds scene. I didn’t actually see the movie until some years later and remember being surprised that he wasn’t the good guy. I probably would have bought into it in…

It’s interesting as a litmus test just because there’s a much more expansive take than the binary “he’s a hero/he’s a villain”, and that’s that he can both be sympathetic for facing issues everyone does and sometimes wishes they could rail against, while also being an example of someone going off the deep end in a way…

The movie manages to be simultaneously anchored to the exact time it was made (DFENS being a defense contractor who just lost his job due to the end of the Cold War) and more relevant than ever (pathetic middle-aged white guy snapping and going on an increasingly violent rampage).

It also feels like the lawyers involved on their side are in for a piece of the action.  This is not “we’re just here doing our jobs” ... it feels more like “we’re after OUR money now”.

Oh I’ve also heard that about Carlson! More and more people are saying it. In fact a big strong guy came up to me, big strong guy, he was a Marine, he was cryind, and he came up to me and told me: “Tucker Carlson likes to stick his dick in empty banana peels and cry while masturbating in his pantry to pictures of…

Everything about Tucker Carlson is annoying, but I have to say I’m pleased that it looks like Dominion is just NOT fucking around. They don’t look to be sniffing for a settlement or trying not step on anyone’s toes...from my vantage, they are absolutely coming for everything Fox has got and it’s just a joy to see…

key word here is adapting, the word itself implies changing the material. very few good movies would be made if we filmed word for word what's on the page