Crowe made great movies up through 2000, and then Vanilla Sky and Elizabethtown completely sucked shit, so it's only appropriate that with this and We Bought A Zoo, he's entering the "safe, boring movies for old people" phase of his career.

So are they worth seeing live? I really like them and I'm tempted to check out the Liberty Hall show, but their music is such breezy, stare-at-the-wall-and-feel-sad stuff that I'm not sure it's necessary to see performed.

Remember when Jamie-Lynn Sigler got a new nose between the pilot and the second episode?

And therein lies the problem with so many remakes, horror and otherwise - you have to make it unique enough so it doesn't just feel like a retread, but similar enough that it still feels like the brand.

But then your movie gets buried in the back of the Redbox because no one wants to pay for your mediocre horror movie without the brand name, and the vicious cycle continues.

Not a line, and it didn't ruin the movie, but I thought Ex Machina ended on the wrong shot. Considering the music buildup, I thought it was going to end on the shot of the elevator door closing. Everything after that would have worked better being implied rather than shown.

He is allowed to write whatever he wants in a private letter, and he does have some insightful things to say in that letter. And I am allowed to say that despite that, he comes off really badly, considering that;

Dan Harmon, like Joss Whedon, has some tremendously smart and on-point things to say about the filmmaking process, but sometimes chooses to say those things in a way, and about certain projects, that makes him look like an ungrateful, non-self-reflexive idiot. This was one of those times. Monster House was one of the…

I read a review of one of the mo-cap movies that said the process made all the characters look like they were wading underwater, and that description was perfect. It's a weird, uncanny valley style of animation, where they try to use this realistic CGI with real human movements and it comes out looking creepy.

I always wondered, given that there are inevitably years where December has a Friday the 13th, why they never did a Christmas-themed installment. I know it's a summer camp-set series and Black Christmas exists, but surely there's possibilities in Jason skewering teenagers with pine trees and icicles.

Leelee has two line readings, one in the terrible proto-Nicholas Sparks movie Here on Earth and one in the horrendous Al Pacino thriller 88 Minutes, that are so bad that they've seared in my memory as pristine examples of "sometimes you have to go with the best take you have."

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Considering what a depressing movie it is, Leaving Las Vegas has a couple of Nic Cage's funniest screen moments.

People in my grad department traveled for conferences and stuff, but unless you got grants, it was all out of pocket, so people weren't exactly jet-setting to every one of them.

A couple things:

For me, it's the same reason I enjoy Christopher Nolan: they make some bad movies, and some of the same problems are apparent in all of their work, but they're at least giving us something different, something that doesn't feel like it's been studio workshopped to death, something that actually feels like there's some…

This looks eh, but it's the Wachowskis, so I'm there.
I'd honestly like to see them go back to smaller projects, which I keep thinking they'll have to do when their big-budget sci-fi movies keep flopping, but then another one comes out. Bound is still debatably their best movie.

Unloved for good reason. Ebert's review of this movie had some choice zingers. The opening paragraphs:

William Gay has another great book that would make a great movie - it's basically Night of the Hunter, but with a necrophiliac undertaker and Robert Mitchum's character played by a guy whose personality is Dennis Hopper and whose look is Dwayne Johnson. Stephen King named it the best book of the year when it came out.

Saw this in theaters, remember it being pretty decent. My one lasting memory of it is that the final scenes have some of the worst old-age makeup I can recall in anything. It always brings to mind Gene Siskel's quote about old-age makeup making actors look like turtles.