Saddest of all, perhaps, is the ending of any Michael Bay movie, when the lights come up in the theater and you realize exactly how much of your life has been put through his technofetishcryptofascisthomoproviolence commercial grinder —time that will never, not ever, be salvaged.

Ah, so much (more) sweet sorrow:  There's the "stuff that dreams are made of" acknowledgement of the heartbroken world in Maltese Falcon, Hurt's achingly broken man in 1984, and the death and fucked up retribution in the gunfire blackout of Cutter and Bone.

More re:  The Coens:  Even though the last line is a great (and uplifting) joke, the final "dream of the far far future" jailhouse scene in Raising Arizona is achingly sorrowful, as is the elegiac tone that tips its hat to love and loyalty and honor in the final moments of Millers Crossing.

A few moments thought made me remember that MOST of Kubrick's endings were unhappy…and also among my favorites:  Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, Paths of Glory, The Killing, even The Shining (in its cyclical damnation freezing-leading-to frozen picture moment)…yup, "Old Widebrow" was the Master of the…

Hey, Keith:  A TRACKING shot can be a PAN, but a PAN —short for PANORAMA— isn't a TRACKING SHOT used in that Hitchcockian push/pull effect you're referencing.  (Panning always refers to side to side motions, not forward/reversing.) Your tromboner of a line should ACTUALLY read:  TRACK back and ZOOM forward…

Anyone who can't find the "weird" in the twisted enormity of Reality…maybe just doesn't know enough?  Besides, even mundane literal facts can be EXPRESSED poetically —and spark transcendent thoughts and emotions.  Also:  myths and religion are FINE as "observational filters" to help in an individual's (or a society's)…

Hey, has anyone yet remarked that Gus's face was destroyed in exactly the same manner as the burned pink animal toy in Walt's pool sometime back —the one whose missing eye floated into the filter?  (Was this an intentional callback?)

What about that Jesus guy?  Dies at 33, never even got around to writing a single book himself, no surviving works of carpentry; yet a couple of heavily edited compilation volumes of his possible thoughts and concepts published well after his passing still keep fueling all sorts of conversations.  (And that God fellah…

I had never seen Fester the Pimple play until last night; and now, although I liked the woozy playful angst of Pumped Up Kicks when I heard it on the radio…I can see exactly how much these pussies gain from post production:  I've never seen a more amateur stage presence.  It was like watching a pasty-faced teenage…

I was hoping this movie would have a scene where the robot fighter, suffering from incipient "head punch dementia" would replicate HAL9000's gradual loss of intellect…until the Steel Champ was flat on his back, drooling oil, and softly singing "Daisy" while dying —as Hugh kneels over him, weeping.

At one time, however, it was gonna be called "Rocky (Chop)Socky Robots."

Although, naturally, I thought mockcheesybro might actually be a Troll, I decided to make an effort to shape a reply for two simple reasons:  First, sometimes a Troll-killer is called for.  And, second, we live in unfortunate times, when the thoughts and rhetoric and ditto-matic tactics of the new Far Right are…

Just because some of us know where the Cap Shift key is and we know how to spell and we’ve studied world history and American politics and have an actual regard for something once referred to as "reality” …doesn’t make us Hipster douches.  I’ve seen the ENTIRE interview segment with Hanky, and, BULLSHIT, he absolutely…

Hank Williams Jr. recites his favorite part of the "Rowdy" Constitution:

Hank Williams Jr.:  One Hitler Wonder.

Ala "The Fly," he looks like what you'd get if they left a bag of potatoes in the teleporter with Dane Cook. 

I assumed it was a typo, meant to read:  "outlier."

Shit, sorry for all the fast-fingered typos.  Please don't let my stumblin' negate my argument.  Thanks.

Again, no.  Jesse, even in the recap montage at the head of this episode, is clearly harboring "love/loyalty" for Walt.  He also knows that Walt DIDN'T lead the DEA to the Laundry:  OR ELSE THE LAUNDRY WOULD HAVE BEEN RAIDED, AS HE WOULD HAVE TOLD THE COPS HOW TO FIND THE HIDDEN LAB.  Jesse has ALSO been told by Saul…

Sorry, I don't think the moments you site do the story-task I'm talking about:  Jesse certainly DOESN'T take Gus's generalized demonizing of Walt to heart anymore:  From the moment he took on the secret plan to poison Gus, Jesse has been clear about Gus's "angle" regarding Walt.  What I'M talking about is a scene…