I decided to spend more time with my family.

Yes, I was an early grizzler.   And a late groomer.

Eleventy trillion points to Gryffindor for the Sha Na Na reference, btw.

You magnificent bastards.

How about we just erase your file, huh? How 'bout that? How about we erase your file and then bang, you're just another soldier for Costello open to arrest for I don't know how many felonies. Huh?

/also loves the Depahted

See that, everybody?  That's how you post properly in this forum!

*high five*

All Is Lost seems to be the most binary Love it/Hate It movie of 2013. *

I loved it, but I absolutely understand why someone would hate it. 

* Except maybe Upstream Color, which I haven't seen yet.

And I stand by that statement.

My point was - and is - that character should have died in that opening scene, because she serves no  purpose for the rest of the movie other than occasional set decoration and exposition absorbent.

As I recall, somebody in the commentary clued me in that the character is somebody "from the comics" or that the actress herself is on a TV show (or was it both?).  Either way, that solves the mystery of why she survives an event that invariably kills supporting characters in most movies.   She's fan service, and we're supposed to think "Yay, there she is!  Go, you from TV and/or comic!"

But since I didn't have that info,  I thought "why are we spending so much time with this day-player who's clearly going to be dead in three minutes?"  And when the cause of her death arrived right on cue... she didn't even die!  Instead they weaseled an excuse for her to survive it.

The marketing department may have needed that character but the story the movie was telling didn't.  And so I say again - a mountain fell on her.  She should have died.

Well, see - if you've been watching this guy for years on TV then sure, you already like him and you know he can be funny.

I've never seen him until this trailer, and what I saw there makes him look like the next Taylor Kitsch.  I'm still giving him the benefit of the doubt, though.

Damn.  Clickbait right here in our own house.  Welcome to Buzzteague.

He's not funny and carries no presence is exactly what I meant.   

But in his favor, he seems capable of reciting the words in order and he has abs.

I'm reserving judgment because maybe his good stuff is in the rest of the movie.  Just saying I don't see it yet here.

Meanwhile... Zoe Saldana's demented smile?  I like THAT character already.

The computer code website I referenced in the commentary:   http://moviecode.tumblr.com/