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I agree completely with this. There are some nice moments to it all, like him giving him water, but after the epic nature of the race it just feels so slow. You're also asking the audience to care about his mom and sister who had what? 5 minutes maybe of screen time prior. I understand it is his motivation and all but I felt nothing for them. Given the fact that he is so motivated by revenge I think like Amy mentioned the shot of him looking out at the vast emptiness of the arena is more fitting and instead of rewarding his path of revenge you see the hollowness of it. You could have some scenes after that but the 40 forced B story is not the way to go.

This is a very quick and very minor thing that I noticed. When Sky Captain and Polly are approaching Totenkopf's lair in the Lost World we pan up a set of stairs leading up to it. On those stairs we see the skeleton of a saber tooth tiger chained up. However most people when they chain up a pet do so by affixing the chain to a collar which goes around the neck. Yet we clearly see that this poor saber tooth was chained up by an ankle collar on this front paw. Why would a genius like Totenkopf do this? If he's suppose to be a guard creature of some sort and ankle chain would only hinder his effectiveness. He couldn't swipe properly and his distance in severely hampered. If he was a pet, why not let him roam free like the dinosaurs? I just feel sad for this dead neglected fella.

I second this. I watched it as well not that long after Cameron and I was blown away by Lawrence of Arabia. Words fail me for how great of a movie it was. I would say the same about The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which I also watched late last year.

I'll defend Captain Ron with you.

As I was watching this movie I couldn't help think about how very 2001 it is. Like the casting was dead on. You have Brekin Meyer and Donald Faison from Clueless, Brekin Meyer and Paul Costanzo from Road Trip, Seth Green and Alexder Martin of Can't Hardly Wait, Rachel Leigh Cook from She's All That, and Tara Reid from American Pie. It's like they took a who's who of late 90s teen comedies and cast them all. Heck you could even argue Alan Cummings was in Spice World around that time as well. I found it very nostalgic. I wonder if ten years from now that's how will we feel when we look back and see all the Apatow regulars together in something. I guess every generation has their core teen comedy actors.

I thought I had more but I am at 60 and 64 respectively. I mean I know that I haven't watched a lot of the older ones like Yankee Doodle Dandy and Swing Time but I guess the most shocking one that I haven't watched is Rocky. I think I know so much about it that I feel like I've seen it and just never bothered. Oddly I've seen most of the sequels.

I mean I thought that was the meta joke. The whole movie is about brainwashing people through subliminal advertising of products and goods and what does this movie do? Exactly that but in a way that you are aware that it's doing it unlike other films that hide it. So we have two characters exploring for their feelings for each other in an aquarium and there is a giant ad for Evian water behind them. First, advertising water in an aquarium, clever, and second why would there be an ad in a tank? Have you ever seen that? No, because it's a joke. It's like Wayne's World except they're not directly telling you they just hoped you inferred it.

So I was new to all this and had no idea what to expect and it turns out.... I actually really enjoyed the movie! I thought it was very clever and fun and the music was good. My biggest complaints would be that the love story should have been scrapped or beefed up. I wasn't invested or interested and it didn't really fit in. Also, I think there were some tonal differences in acting styles that would have been nicer if everybody was on the same page or there was only one straight man. Otherwise there were some creative jokes, and solid laughs and it is a comedy so that's all that really matters.

That really looks like two people sitting in a boat and not two actors sitting in front of a green screen said no one ever.

I would dread to hear the music that guy would be singing..

Expanding on what Lindsay mentioned earlier, the AFI top 100 is a list made up of the top 100 American films as determined by members of the American Film Institute. If someone, and I sure it's already been done, were to make a top 100 list of all films American or otherwise do you think that Citizen Kane would still hold the top spot?

I don't know if anybody else is dorky enough to remember this but when the AFI first released it's top 100 list it was in the form of a TV special. I was 15 and obsessed with movies and I was glued to the TV with a legal pad and pencil ready to write each one down and watch "the greatest movies" of all time. Now and the time what I failed to consider was that these films were considered by critics, scholars, and film makers to be great and what they consider to be great might not but what a 15 year is clamoring to watch. So needless to say rushing out and watching Citizen Kane afterwards left me disappointed. After listening to this podcast I feel that I really need to go back and rewatch Citizen Kane because while I remember the story and a lot of the beats, at the time I caught none of the symbolism and was unaware of the techniques it was using and how impressive and groundbreaking for the time they were. From here on out I will try to watch along with the show.

I've never seen the movie but I had a friend that loved it to no end. Then again he was really into that genre, not sure what to call it so let's go with "noirpunk", like robots and stuff but it's all the 20s.

Maybe this is opening a can of worms but does anybody watch Riverdale? If so has Josie and the Pussycats appeared on that? Aren't they part of the Archie-verse?

Don't make me run, I'm full of chocolate!

I feel like I may be attacked for saying this but... I've never seen this movie.

Okay here are some of the more interesting ones: As for the budget

The IMDB trivia on this movie is a very interesting read

Oh no, I love About Time. That is a great movie that everybody should watch! Bring some tissues for that one.

I will agree that this is a surprisingly cute movie that deserves a little more love. Also much better than In Time. I actively dislike that movie.

I don't know if this is the same for everyone but I remember an old wives tell about shaving heads and the hair not coming back. I think that's because as it's growing back in you see the hair pattern more which reveals bald sports and receding hairlines that are normally covered. As far as Robin Wright goes IMDB lists her as having three roles, so I'm going to assume that the one that died and the one at the end are two different characters... I guess... and as far as why they got back together, did they ever state why they separated? I don't recall. Maybe it was his caustic personality that drove her away but she still cared about him. As he got better so did his personality, so she went back to him?

Probably feared it wouldn't grow back. Also, they are both wearing glasses as well. You might not be far off...

Here's another question, not as serious as the rest, why did they put Mel Gibson in the bald cap? I mean this is still when he was a sweet heart and darling so there was no need to hide him. Did they think it was a funny joke? Did they think the doctor couldn't be handsome? If that's the case why cast Mel Gibson in that role. You already had RDJ in special make up so was this an excuse for the two of them to spend time together in the make up trailer?

I kinda want to watch that part again because I am of two minds about the wrench. One one hand I think it's just showing that his father was angry at his wife and a possible resentment and distrust of women which Dan Dark displays later on. The boiling rage simmering beneath the surface rising to the top. I don't know if he beat them with it though. She left with Dan Dark but her lover wasn't there and the dad seemed upset with them leaving. So him hitting her and that being the final straw would make sense too. As far as his mom and her death goes I think you are right about her death but no idea why she is just a random lady of the evening in his fantasy. Surely it would have made more sense for her to be the one that is murdered and dumped. That would play into the whole "my noir world is a metaphor for my past and all the characters are stand ins for real people and events and feelings that I try to repress" a whole lot more.

I agree with Cameron and Cinco that the last third is a great improvement and I can't tell if that is because of being use to Dan Dark, hearing his tragic story, or just the elements and themes finally coming together. There were moments in which he was fantasizing about people in his life (his agent and wife trying to dupe him out of the screenplay) and then moments when his characters came into the real world. They mention at the start hallucinations but it wasn't until the third act that this really started to happen. Also, the two feds/hoods were they guys he saw on the bus for real or is that him putting his characters from his mind into the memory?