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I'm with you on this one. Was waiting for you to finish it and put up your thoughts. It has an underdog vibe to it that really works well. Sophia going off on people is just wonderful. She has some great one-liners.

I can't argue with your criticisms. What I liked about it was first, you get to see Joe Swanberg and Ti West in scenes with more famous people. If you're not real familiar with those guys, it's not going to mean anything to you. Second, yes the dialogue is improvised, and yes there are quite a few awkward moments because of it. Swanberg was clearly not afraid to throw all these famous actors to the wolves, and that's what made it interesting for me. Some of them can handle it better than others. Some of them seem to start off bad but then improve over the course of the movie (assuming that the scenes were shot in order).

I'd like to see Barrett give up his spot in the Rumble and give a Bad News speech while looking into a mirror.

That was at TIFF last year. Heard it was good, with characters that are much smarter than in a normal horror movie, though you wouldn't really know it from that trailer. I assume WWE got in on it after it was already made? There don't seem to be any wrestlers in it.

How can we be certain that it wasn't just millions of viewers still sitting awestruck from the previous week's Daniel Bryan main event, and then the sight of Batista gradually brought them out of their trance and they changed the channel?

That "normally I'd be happy that I got this huge scoop, but I actually spent most of the interview trying to convince him to do the movie" part from the article writer is pretty funny.

I know "brave performance" is code for "gets naked" if we're talking about actresses, but I wasn't expecting it to apply here.

I don't think I'll be watching the Super Bowl.

sigh.

Not sure about going for it here.

I can't be the only person who thought that was Road Dogg.

I haven't actually seen Blackfish, but I'm thinking The Cove winning Best Documentary in 2010 could have something to do with it. It covers some of the same ground (dolphins rather than killer whales, though) and maybe the Academy was like "been there, done that".

Sarah Polley, director of Stories We Tell, took her non-nomination very graciously, tweeting: Way to make me feel like a jerk Sarah.

Oh shoot, Oprah's not in there either. The only Butler in there at all is William Butler for Best Score.

Crash Reel either. Or Blackfish, which I'm a little surprised about. That was probably the most mainstream buzz for a Best Documentary candidate since like Fahrenheit 9/11.

Washington has allegedly scored 43 points in the first quarter against Miami. Leading 69-48 at the half.

Here's another good resource if you're looking for 2013 movies to watch: a page that compiles and averages a whole bunch of best-of-2013 lists. http://moviecitynews.com/2014/01/the-top-tens-of-2013-155-lists-and-counting/

I just became aware that the Palestinian movie Omar is on the 9-movie shortlist for Best Foreign Film. It's the only one of the nine I've actually seen, and I liked it a lot but it's probably not Oscar-worthy. Guess that'll be the one I'm rooting for, though. Indiewire is predicting Act of Killing and Crash Reel both get nominated for Best Documentary, and then Stories We Tell beats them both out for the award. If that happens I will shake my fist at the TV so aggressively. Indiewire is also predicting one of the Somali pirates in Captain Phillips gets nominated for Best Supporting Actor, which would be interesting. (edit: Apparently this is not that uncommon of a prediction.) And if it's not him, then there's the question of who's going to be the fifth nominee after Leto, Cooper, Hill and Fassbender.

Yeah, in the vein of the Serkis talk, I've seen some discussion about whether Scarlett Johansson deserves a nomination.

Hey, remember Armond White? He's still trolling. arts.nationalpost.com/2014/01/13/armond-white-expelled-from-new-york-film-critics-circle-after-allegedly-heckling-steve-mcqueen-at-awards-gala/

If Kaepernick runs in for a touchdown and, let's say, cups his ear at the crowd, that would be glorious.

We haven't had our one-in-four upset yet this weekend, which is ominous given what Peyton does sometimes. ...it was Carolina that had the bye, right? Niners played last week?

Wtf.

Replay looked like he pushed him with his hands, then landed on him. Not really a hit.

For what it's worth, I (kind of) almost attended that Chikara show - I was in Tampa for business last March, but it was the weekend after the show. Too bad. I did get to the St. Patrick's day parade downtown though, that was a decent time.