Charlie Wilson's War (2007, dir. Mike Nichols) "Another Broken Window" (Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Slattery)

As someone who played little league with him, his 1974 Fairport summer league performance was anything but great, he struck out every at bat for 9 consecutive games.

Hasn’t done much lately

RAINDROPS!

RAIN DANCE! LET IT RAIN!

He made Along Came Polly! Even in small roles in B movies, he's amazing!

The Hunger Games

Idk. I think a lot of the audience gets caught up in the charisma of the actors and the crackle of the script. This rant, for example: Hoffman's performance is so compelling that we just sort of glide by the fact that gust casually admitted to subverting an election and abetting a military coup. He doesn't even bring it up to brag; it's a bullet point on his resumé. I'm torn over this film cuz it's hanks, hoffman and sorkin near the peak of their powers but, like a lot of sorkin media, it never has the insight or guts to really interrogate american exceptionalism past "damn, guess we do some bad things sometimes. Ah well, empire's gotta empire!"

The sound of a jet engine alluding to 9/11 was what hit me

Which set us up for 9-11-01. The Afghanis valued honor greatly. Breaking promises dishonored you. We made a billion promises that we would help rebuild their country after they chased the Soviets out. Aaaaaand we broke every single one of them. As soon as they left, we left. Leaving them flooded with c**** weapons and no clear leadership. Cue 20 years of a bloody 25 sided civil war. So here comes Bin Laden and his Al Qaida organization with funding, engineers, organization, and technical know how.. and he keeps all the promises we broke. Guess who became their new best friends? So when we told them to hand him over,.... well, you can guess the rest even if you don't know it.

That's Aaron Sorkin. His writing is incredible for that sort of dialog.

Its a call back actually to the start of the movie where people make this mistake for various other countries. It ties it all in a neat bow where people care for a moment, then go right back to the ignorance at the start.

Mark Moses. The ineffectual lieutenant in *Platoon*.

"Duck, Crab. Crab, Duck."

I recently binged all of Mad Men and it's one of those shows where I'm not just sad that it ended, I _miss_ the characters from it. Especially Roger.

"I told him to be himself. I guess that was pretty cruel of me"

THAT'S A THICK DOOR.

It's got a little transmitter on it, I've got a little thing in my ear, get past it.

Pours himself a drink … this maybe poisonous … guess I’ll take that chance.

"THAT'S A THICK DOOR"

PIG ***F***!!!*** --PSH, "The Master" (2012, dir. P.T. Anderson)

Read up on the early days and founding of Scientology and it makes a bit more sense.

There was a good write up on it in the New Yorker a few weeks ago > Before he shot “The Master,” the dreamy, haunting film he made after “There Will Be Blood,” Anderson immersed himself in the period after the Second World War, when many Americans turned to such things as self-help movements, diet regimens, yoga, and paranoid-prophetic new religions. What cure could there be for purposelessness and disconnection? Anderson found the origins of present fads in the fervent nostrums of the past. Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the master of the title, is clearly based on L. Ron Hubbard, the charismatic leader of Dianetics and then Scientology. A fluent producer of mythological and psychological “systems,” Dodd is avuncular and welcoming in public but implacably bullying in private sessions, where he submits his victims to hypnosis and ego-busting questions, wiping them clean in order to possess them forever. At first glance, “The Master” is another of Anderson’s group films: lost people gather around a charismatic leader. But, if “Boogie Nights” offered a soiled but benevolent family, this group—wife, children, followers, hangers-on—is held together by pathetic subservience and a meanness disguised as concern. Grave as most of it is, the movie is animated by amused contempt. > Into their midst ambles Anderson’s ultimate loner, the anarchic Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an alcoholic, violent, and sex-obsessed Navy veteran. John Huston again helped inspire the hero’s character. Anderson and his crew studied Huston’s 1946 documentary about shell-shocked soldiers, “Let There Be Light,” which the Army, wary of showing any signs of American weakness, prevented from circulating until 198o. Some of Huston’s dazed subjects stare vacantly into the camera. Phoenix’s performance can be seen as a delayed liberation of those unknown men; he speaks for them, acts for them. The actor brings to the set his scarred lip and twisted shoulder; he wears his pants belted high in forties style and sticks his left arm into his side, as if he were preventing himself from falling over. Physically, he could be an orangutan in distress. Yet Phoenix is still surprisingly potent, commanding us with his gleaming black hair and rakish grin. You are never sure when he will explode. > Early on, there are slow-moving but tense confrontations between Dodd and Freddie in which Hoffman and Phoenix appear to be competing over who can hold the camera longest before delivering a line. The two men need and necessarily hate each other. Anderson juices their struggle, but, oddly, he doesn’t resolve it. He has told interviewers that a character can grow and change, and in “The Master” he allows Freddie to take over the movie. Dodd and his menacing crew may hope to train him, but the point, we realize after a while, is that Freddie Quell can’t be quelled. He’s miserable and free, beyond the cult’s “help.” He wanders, and “The Master” wanders with him—out to sea, into the desert, around rooms. Anderson seems unwilling to wrap things up, and the picture ends tentatively, in melancholy mystery. The title, it turns out, is misleading. Freddie has no master. In the case of Plainview and Freddie Quell, loneliness may be incurable.

Good evening folks, uh I'm Sandy Lyle and I've got a very special announcement. Please note that in tonight's performance in addition to playing the role of Judas, I'll be playing Jesus as well. Thank you very much and enjoy the show!

Rain dance!

It was an overdose after a period of sobriety right? That kills so many. Returning to an old dose after being clean for a spell

Rambo 3's end card thanks the freedom fighters.

or Octopussy

*He got the boot.*

Originally a Bill Hicks joke, guy was doing standup in the 90s, 10 years before 9-11, and he was a god damn prophet.


Are you saying never to start a land war in Asia? Are you saying that it may perhaps be ***The*** Classic Blunder?

Afghanistan being the graveyard of empires is largely a myth. Plenty of empires controlled it.

Yes. It’s excellent.

Definitely give it a watch! It's great.

>Second time? -The Kurds

The factions that the US supported almost immediately began a civil war among themselves once the Soviets left. Schools and infrastructure weren't going to prevent that.

“Probably apocryphal.” Common little bro. Really?

Not sure that's the case. The US was portrayed as largely not caring at all until they realized they could win one over the Soviets without having to put boots on the ground. The rest pretty much writes itself at that point. If it was propaganda, the US would have tried to do more in country to address what Gus was talking about during the "We'll see" scene but something would have gotten in the way that wasn't the US' fault.

yet he doesn't even get to watch for free.

The original ending was 9/11 footage but that got dropped for being too sad.

It has been consistently relevant whenever we "help" a country fight a country we're not fans of.

(ok I'm sure you're right, but I'm too big a fan not to say this) It's from Penzance, or Iolanthe, one of the ones about duty and honor

This is often overlooked. In a "duet" like that, even if one actor steals the scene they are enabled to do so by the quality of the acting of the other party. Had Slattery's part been phoned in PSH would have less to work with and the impact of his delivery and ripostes would have been flatter.