Ace Midnight

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He's huge

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I bet the plane leaned his way.

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(It's actually good)

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Have you ever heard a song you considered "bad"?

ETA: And to answer your question - this is almost certainly it forever -

Being smart/knowing things/solving problems

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Which Led to my favorite cover ever.

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To be honest, there are some fantastic covers out there that challenge the material in a way perhaps not anticipated by the composer - Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower, Buckley's Hallelujah, Aretha's Let it Be, and a slew of others.

But, the older I get, the more I think that Tool's cover of No Quarter might be the greatest of all time.

Thief (1981)

The Conversation

Blood Simple

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Hey, if you want to degenerate Christmas by associating it with violence and death, no one is stopping you.

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Well, Die Hard is about heroism, sacrifice, a fractured family healing, facing/defeating evil, etc.

In Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick (brilliantly) uses Christmas decorations as a motif alongside the rainbow. In Die Hard, the entire plot of the movie happens because of Christmas. Sure, it's a framing device, but that doesn't change the nature of it as an action Christmas film.

True story - at an event recently where there was a scavenger hunt, I said, "We could ask ChatGPT?". My 9-yo grandson said without hesitation, "AI is not helpful."

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Also a loss to American filmmaking-

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Now, on the one hand, I have to say that at 78 - how many more films did he have in him? And, for that matter, other than the Albert Brooks documentary, what was the last feature he had that had any sort of impact? The Bucket List?

But, on the other hand, Meathead was a great, great film director. Not a "genius". Not an "auteur". Not revolutionary, but about as good as it gets as a conventional, modern director and he did that without getting the press/accolades of his contemporaries Stephen, Marty, Francis, Bogdanovich. To a degree, the "auteur" class of director kind of looks down on actors who start directing. The director's guild has had it out for Eastwood since Josey Wales, for example.

He is more akin to Ron Howard in that regard.

Sure, a nepobaby, but one that didn't rest on his father's laurels. His run from This is Spinal Tap through Ghosts of Mississippi can stand up to anyone's for a similar timespan and on a "picture-for-picture" basis.

(ETA: Now part of this is the "New Hollywood" directors were all a little older than Reiner, and they were directing films while he was cutting his teeth writing and acting on television - but that doesn't degrade his body of work in my opinion.)

We need, probably, 3 of those QBs and any OL who can fog a mirror.