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Fabulous Harry! I love the feathers.

Absolutely. 1999 was just such a good year for film. Fight Club, American Beauty, Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia. What's not to like?

The only part of Tangled I didn't really like was the music. It definitely wasn't bad, but you can't compare it to Beauty and the Beast or The Little Mermaid. Princess and the Frog had the same problem for me. The melodies were just sort of... there. Nothing truly spectacular. But hey, everything else was great. The characters, the story, the humour, the animation. And I'm super excited for Frozen. Who knows, maybe even the songs will be really great!

Spoilers refer to plot details. That is casting. If, in the end, it turned out Strangelove, the President and Mandrake were all the same person, then it would be a spoiler. As it stands it has nothing to do with the plot and knowing it beforehand doesn't detract from the filmic experience because it removes no suspense. If anything it enhances it because you can now appreciate more fully the ability and range of Sellers.

It's not a spoiler.

He always has such interesting hair.

They don't have to be, but why shouldn't they be? If you can make a film which speaks to people on a hundred different levels - which explores with visual beauty a thousand different emotional states and changes (or at least challenges) the way a person thinks about something, why wouldn't you do that rather than making a movie about goodies in coloured underpants who fight baddies in coloured underpants while causing unprecedented levels of property damage?

And from 2008 - 2010 each of the winners won for playing one of the most despicable villains of all time - Anton Chigurgh, The Joker and Hans Landa.

There's often this perception that any one period of time (usually the present) is lacking in cinematic quality. The same thing was said of the 1970s, which gave us The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Annie Hall and Jaws.

Point is, even if blockbuster trash is the mainstream, it doesn't eclipse the great work that is always going on (and shouldn't be considered the minority).

There's always great art if you just find the right place to look.

I'm optimistic. The film is written and directed by Gavin Hood, who made the Oscar winning Tsotsi and the acclaimed Rendition. He's one the best film director ever to come out of South Africa in my opinion, and one of the best currently working in Hollywood today. I think he'll do a damn good job.

To be honest, I felt exactly the opposite. To me, Burton's feels like the one with the philosophies and depth crammed in there. Two prime examples are the Axis lettering behind Batman and the duality of the hero and the villain. Burton establishes these thematic devices - but then he fails to draw them to any satisfactory conclusion. Is he condemning Batman? Is he deconstructing society? It was never clear, and got muddled beneath the action. With TDK, the philosophy drove the action.

I love this series - it's fascinating, well made and truly captivating - but as an Australian, when you said "Eye-urrh's Rock" I virtually died laughing.

... Pulp Fiction? Where's Pulp Fiction?! Oh well. Still love you Doug. It's your opinion, and I'll always want to listen to you talk about cinema.

I could watch Steven Spielberg hand Martin Scorsese an Oscar all day. The two greatest directors of all time.

I think he meant the recently made animated adaptation of Frank Miller's 80's opus, the graphic novel "The Dark Knight Returns'.

But I'm with you - these are two very different but great films. Phantasm deals with Bruce Wayne's internal psychological struggle better than any other Batman film, whereas the Dark Knight is more epic - less about Batman and more about the cast of characters in Gotham, their choices and the social commentary that provides on a post-911 world.

Fuck Batman's awesome.

Oh come on. It's politics. Debating about the value of different political systems is absolutely great - it's what leads to the best outcome - but can you really think of no better way to do so than by telling someone who has just expressed mourning for the loss of someone they admire to literally BURN IN HELL. This is the sort of behaviour which skewers good debate, as you keep attacking the person, not the idea.

I accidentally downvoted your comment. I apologise. It was a beautiful sentiment.

I hope Daniel Craig does at some point. He's a really terrific actor who deserves more than just monetary recognition.

Honestly, I disagree. I love The Godfather pt II and I've watched it many times, and never has De Niro's performance captured me quite as much as Lee Strasberg's tour de force. He should've won, I think. De Niro, on the other hand should've been the first to three best actor wins for Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter as well as Raging Bull.

It makes me so happy to see this, because whether we want to acknowledge it or not, it's fucking hard to make it as an actor when you have dwarfism. Peter has managed to succeed incredibly despite the great potential for him to end up cast again and again in caricatures and bit parts like his role in Elf. The fact that he's a dwarf in no way changes the fact that he is a tremendously gifted actor, but it makes his success that much more remarkable.

Good on ya Pete. Well done.

Guys, Siskel missed the point with this one. I disagree with him on a few others too but to deride him as a person for not liking this film is an insult to the legacy of both Gene and Roger.

You can disagree with him, but that shouldn't affect how you view him personally.

I present the story of Rob Scheinder (whom Ebert panned) delivering him flowers when he was sick and Roger's meditations thereon. "It was a reminder that in the great scheme of things, a review doesn’t mean very much."

Oh boy. You're not very popular on the internet, are you?

That's wonderful to hear. I look forward to it.

Rose was a baby when Mickey was that old.

Hey guys. Travis Bickle got a youtube account!

The Guess Who segment made me hurt with laughter. "Does he look like a bitch?!"

What do you mean "almost"?

Oh yeah, they're both great, but in different ways.

Goodfellas is a morality tale - wrong begets wrong, as demonstrated by the final fates of the protagonists.

The Godfather trilogy is a tale of human drama told in the context of a gangster film.

Each is an example of great filmmaking, with great performances, direction and music, but with totally different styles and aims.

Scorsese just doesn't let up, does he? Mean Streets/Taxi Driver/Raging Bull/Goodfellas/The Aviator/The Departed. What a filmography! Can't wait for his next film - The Wolf of Wall Street. I'm expecting another masterpiece.

Did you just tell someone that what they openly proclaimed to be their opinion and then substantiated with the reasons for their thinking the way they do that they're just plain wrong?

You know how art's supposed to be subjective, right?

Nine wasn't "great". It was good, but not "great".

I.. I ... what? What did you just say?

Definitely, but I don't think that one was trying to be scary so much as it was trying to be symbolic.

The coin toss here is a demonstration of the depiction of Chigurh as more than human - an "angel of death" who lives by different rules and philosophies. In The Dark Knight, it's about showing the corruption of Harvey Dent to a point where there's no difference between him and the likes of the Joker. The former needs to be scary to work. The latter does not.

Each film did what it wanted to do.

As talented as he is, I honestly doubt that Daniel Day Lewis will ever surpass what he achieved with Daniel Plainview. Not just his greatest performance, but the greatest lead male performance in film since The Godfather pt II. Unbelievably good.

I cannot agree with you more. Here we have one of the greatest, fullest, most original performances ever seen in film, there we have a really good characterisation of a President - but nothing more than that. Lincoln was, as a character, too one dimensional to allow DDL to fully exercise his talent in the performance. Not like here. Daniel Plainview is a masterwork.