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according to Dan and Andy...the replay wasn't that clear.

I did this with a co-worker and he made me go "Da doy" because I left off: Tarantino Cohen Brothers Alphonse Cuaron Taika Watiti Spielberg

If the Bear doesn't win a lot of emmy's then something else amazing happened I need to know about.

Ok, lets compare five directors who I think are the best not named Scorsese making movies today. Or tell me who you would go out of your way to see a movie made by them. Nolan, Villaneuve, Wright, Fincher, Mendes...who else? maybe I could add Spike Lee. Possibly Oliver Stone. It doesn't appear Terry Gilliam is making movies anymore. My rating based on me seeing it and how good I thought it was: ! - worth seeing, !! - good definitely see it. !!! - you will think this is really good and will think about this movie after seeing it !!!! - You might name a kid after a character in this movie or at least foolishly make passwords using names of characters from this movie. !!!!! - best thing they have done and a movie that will weigh heavily in the culture for generations Christopher Nolan Following (1998) Memento (2000) -- !!! Insomnia (2002) ! Batman Begins (2005) !! The Prestige (2006) !!! The Dark Knight (2008) !!! Inception (2010) !!!! The Dark Knight Rises (2012) !! Interstellar (2014) !!! Dunkirk (2017) !! Tenet (2020) ! Oppenheimer (2023) !!!! Denis Villaneuve 1998 August 32nd on Earth Yes Yes No 2000 Maelström Yes Yes No 2009 Polytechnique Yes Yes No 2010 Incendies Yes Yes No 2013 Prisoners Yes No No Enemy Yes No No 2015 Sicario Yes No No 2016 Arrival Yes No No 2017 Blade Runner 2049 Yes No No 2021 Dune Yes Yes Yes 2023 Dune: Part Two seen by me: Sicario !!! Arrival !!! Blade Runner 2049: !!! Dune: !!!! (Dune: part two is next project) Edger Wright Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes 1995 A Fistful of Fingers Yes Yes Yes 2004 Shaun of the Dead Yes Yes No Co-written with Simon Pegg 2007 Hot Fuzz Yes Yes No Co-written with Simon Pegg 2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Yes Yes Yes Co-written with Michael Bacall 2013 The World's End Yes Yes Executive Co-written with Simon Pegg 2017 Baby Driver Yes Yes Executive 2021 Last Night in Soho (next project is a remake of 1987's Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Running Man) Seen by me: Shaun of the Dead: !! Hot Fuzz: !! Scott Pilgrim vs. the World !!! The World's End: !!! Baby Driver: !!!! Last night in Soho: !! David Fincher Directed features Year Title Distributor 1992 Alien 3 20th Century Fox 1995 Seven New Line Cinema 1997 The Game PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 1999 Fight Club 20th Century Fox 2002 Panic Room Sony Pictures Releasing 2007 Zodiac Paramount Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2010 The Social Network Sony Pictures Releasing 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2014 Gone Girl 20th Century Fox 2020 Mank Netflix 2023 The Killer (next project is The Killer based on a graphic novel) Seen by me: Alien 3: Seven: !!! The Game: !! Fight Club: !!!!! (that's his career zenith) Panic Room: !! Zodiac: !! The Social Network: !!! Gone Girl (why did he make this?) !! Sam Mendes Year Film Director Producer Writer 1999 American Beauty Yes No No 2002 Road to Perdition Yes Yes No 2005 Jarhead Yes No No 2008 Revolutionary Road Yes Yes No 2009 Away We Go Yes No No 2012 Skyfall Yes No No 2015 Spectre Yes No No 2019 1917 Yes Yes Yes 2022 Empire of Light Yes Yes Yes Seen by me: American Beauty: (not worth going out of your way to see) Jarhead: !!! Skyfall: !!! Spectre ! (maybe a ! minus) 1917: !!!

First Nolan movie since the Batman movies. I'd bet Memento or Insomnia would be weird on that screen

I can imagine the bomb test scene would be a "wow" in an IMAX theater and some of the scenery of New Mexico might be similarly amazing but, you probably should save your gas.

Episode 7 of The Bear Season 2 (the Christmas episode) is a grind. My wife and I had to hug it out to calm our PTSD. EDIT: This is episode 6 i am referring to. Episode 7 is very good and features Olivia Coleman.

Saw about half of the first episode. I wouldn't describe this as landmark television worthy of cancelling your plans for whatever night its on. I'll try to power through that episode tonight. I'm not sure this is worth the effort. Basically, there have not been good Detroit depictions in TVs and Movies since The Great and Powerful Oz which was metaphorically about Detroit.

My observation is this is the first Nolan movie i can say that doesn't benefit too much from IMAX. The smaller theater I saw it in was just fine.

Poland may not know karate but they do know Karazy

Daym GURL! Love it.

Something was up at one of the DC courthouses. Apparently the mentally unstable seditious former President was posting all manner of social media about it.

I don't think I ever spent the extra couple bucks for any of the Japanese pressings. Don't know why.

What was not solid were the previews that went on for 30 minutes describing a pile of hot flaming crap. The prestige movies apparently didn't need to advertise. Sad, because I was raring to see Dune 2 after Oppenheimer -- not some recycled Disney ride inspired movie.

Oppenheimer was solid.

Yes for sure. I do know that when I had a very nice [insert brand name] rack system back in the day I could definitely tell the difference between brands of speakers. My [brand] studio monitors were better than some jive [brand] loudspeakers. The quality of production mattered too. We definitely thought that certain bands had higher quality of production. Not to get into specifics because what I thought was good wasn't the absolute audiophile stuff but I had good stuff for what a GI on enlisted pay could get if he saved all his pennies, didn't fly home to the US more than once a year, and only drank so much.

Someone is paid to engage

Worship of strength is one of the phenomena behind the appeal of fascism.

One of the biggest challenges is how much hardware we have to hold back to stave off the invasion of Taiwan. I really wish we could provide two more Patriot units to Ukraine. They will be critical against the PRC though.

Everyday I learn something more about WWII and I've been reading about it for 50 years.

This series is the cold shower

Hardly the stuff of international crisis but still shows the Poles are pushing Vladdy.

Lets go get Verlander

The boomers grew up conditioned to have it all their way.

well, there is the digital compression issue. There is also the issue that for most of us, our ears are not that trained to hear a difference in high end audio. My interest was academic. I just had that memory of making a special trip to the store in Ann Arbor from Livonia and seeing those "magic" Japanese pressings.