Cool! Thanks!

EDIT: LOL. They seem to be a tad overzealous.

That's right. The magnificent Second Empire building to the west of the White House. Originally the War, State, and Navy Building. It's the home of the majority of the "White House" staff.

I tried watching OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), a French spy spoof with Jean Dujardin (The Artist). It's part of a long-running (longer than Bond) spy series that used to be serious and has since turned comedic. But I didn't find myself laughing much, altho Dujardin is good (and looks a hell of a lot like Sean Connery from 1963 in moments). It's set in the 1960s and has a bit of an Austin-Powers-meets-Mad-Men vibe.

I originally thought it was one of the 1960s entries but quickly realized what it really was and was willing to go with it, but it just didn't work for me, and I checked out after maybe 25 minutes.

Maybe it's too dialog-intensive for an American reading the subtitles. I'm curious about Saniss's perspective.

PS: Loved that little Facel Vega.

paaaavlich

This was good fun! Thanks for all the hard work. I know it was a nightmare putting it together.

/put shirt on eBay under movie memorabilia
//staying in character until the commentary track is done

I happened to catch most of Sisters--early Brian De Palma--a love letter to Hitch and giallo, and the host told this story afterwards:

Maybe people won't wait anymore, even for Hitch's decidedly more interesting and suspenseful slow-burn openings....

I love the film--and the great majority of everything else Hitchcock did--and I thought the commentary was great. I agree that Judy's eyebrows are ridiculous--AND HITCH WOULD HAVE LAUGHED WITH US. He put ridiculous things in his movies all the time. He didn't climax North by Northwest with people crawling down Thomas Jefferson's face by accident.

That's fantastic! Congratulations!

I would like to point out the inconvenient and possibly legally actionable fact that Alfonso Cuaron seems to have lifted most of the plot of GRAVITY from a certain poster on this very forum more than 2 years ago....

http://friendsinyourhead.com/forum/view … 882#p11882

Yes, he left out the actual solar death ray because that would have been too obvious. It's also why his movie is so dumb and filled with boring character stuff instead of filled with awesome solar death ray destruction.

I've never quite understood the love for Blade Runner myself. It's a pretty conventional noir set in a beautiful world but that's about it. I've ranted here before about how the unicorn dream basically ruins the movie.

I'm happy to agree that 50 First Dates is surprisingly sweet and effective, with the exception of Sean Astin's idiotic antics.

I don't understand why the FCC would even accept complaints about South Park. It only appears on cable channels, which are except from FCC control because they don't use public broadcast spectrum.

Troll 2 famously featured goblins and not trolls.

Beetlejuice has almost nothing at all to do with the guts of any insects.

Inherit the Wind is not about a probate case in which wind is a part of the deceased's estate.

I'm pretty sure no one lost or found a whole entire planet in either The Lost World or The New World.

By the end of The Muppets Take Manhattan, one would be hard-pressed to argue that the Muppets have taken even a significant portion of Manhattan.

Layer Cake has nothing to do with baking a delicious dessert. It is about gangsters.

I agree with the general awe and the specific bafflement over the Clooney Depature scene.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet (pardon if I just missed it in this thread) was how much horsing around Clooney was doing at the beginning. I really couldn't believe they had him just flying circles around the shuttle, putting them all in danger if he collided with something and wasting all that fuel, not to mention all the pointless jabber he was doing while the inexperienced Bullock was trying to accomplish the actual mission. And Faceless Astronat #3 wasn't much better.