You really need to elaborate on this one.

This Is The End is better than The World's End.

Only one or two that I remember, and nothing that wasn't resolved.

To be fair, the Muslim god is technically the same god as the Christian god and the Jewish god. "People of the Book," and so forth.

For those of you who have seen The Act of Killing, would you recommend seeing the Director's Cut or the theatrical cut first? I ask because the DC is significantly longer, so I'm curious if it's better to just watch that version.

I thought that 2013 was a fantastic year. Compared to last year, which was mostly lame, the past 12 months were jam-packed with fantastic movies.

Just watched Anchorman for the first time before quickly driving to catch the day's last showing of the sequel. The first one is very clever and extremely funny. The second isn't as clever or funny, but it has some great Daily Show-style satire of 24-hour cable news. I like them both a lot.

Okay, I've seen pretty much every movie I wanted to see this year. Except Her, but that's not out near me until the 10th. Here's my final (probably) top 10.

1) Inside Llewyn Davis
2) 12 Years a Slave
3) All Is Lost
4) The Wolf of Wall Street
5) Upstream Color
6) Frances Ha
7) Blue is the Warmest Color
8) Short Term 12
9) Nebraska
10) Side Effects

You mean the literal events of the plot? Or the more thematic "what's it about?" Here's the latter.

Just got back from The Wolf of Wall Street. That movie is bananas. For the first half, I was sure that it was a vital piece of American cinema, a perfect comment on how the country behaves today. But the longer it went, the less convinced I became. It's still a great movie, and maybe even a necessary one. It's a movie about American excess that itself is incredibly excessive. Was that an intentional thematic choice? Scorsese is so brilliant that I might just give it to him.

I just got back. They should have called this movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Sma- Hey, What Do You Think That Elf Chick Is Up To?

I didn't hate it. The pacing was much better than the first one. Same goes for the effects, mostly. There was one shot during the barrels sequence which looked like something out of a Gamecube cutscene from 2004. I was super annoyed by how obvious some of the effects were. Also, what was up with that random GoPro footage in the barrels sequence? Very distracting.

The Smaug scene was fucking phenomenal. Easily one of the best things I saw on screen this year in any movie. If only they didn't keep cutting away to boring subplots that I didn't care about. I actually really liked Tauriel, and her flirting with Kili was handled pretty well. But man oh man, PJ did his best to make me hate it. It was almost comical how many times he killed the tension of that scene by switching to Kili groaning on a table, or Gandalf doing something boring that I don't care about because I KNOW HE'S GOING TO LIVE. I know that the point of that stuff was to expand on the book and increase its scope, but it's not nearly as interesting as it needs to be.

So, I liked Smaug. He looked really scary. The whole climax in Erebor was like the Balrog scene times a thousand. The fight between Legolas and Bolg was pretty cool too. I was prepared to forgive literally any bloat in the first two thirds as long as they didn't screw up the dragon. And they didn't. But they couldn't leave that scene alone.