Wow! Lots of good actors there from Paul Giamatti to Kumail Nanjiani to Vincent Kartheiser to Jeff Goldblum! Awesome cameo gets Amy!

Holeeee shit. This woman's comedy lately...
Giamatti owns.

This is also what happens when you give Paul Giamatti a lemon.

Former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti (father of actor Paul Giamatti) wrote this about the game.

"The Green Fields of the Mind "

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone."

From - From A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

@longde

1. What do you mean Asian Americans don't experience discrimination? They're demonstrably racistly discriminated against as a matter of official policy.

2. Most Asian Americans aren't Hmong, and the group averages are still true. Feel free to stop making references to Whites, Latinos, or Blacks, since those groups have much variance within them, and then we can finally make affirmative action based on income instead of self-reinforcing tribalistic concepts.

3a. Everybody has to develop their human capital if they want to be skilled in advancing in the business world. I read a dozen books (or audiobooks) per year on how to do it, and I think about it constantly, trying new things, writing down my thoughts, and improving on my (many) past mistakes.

3b. People can use anything as a crutch, and when something goes wrong, which is a constant part of life, they attribute it to that crutch. They then won't develop their full potential. We should probably have affirmative action based on height, beauty, and likable personality (if you believe in affirmative action), and if we'd rather be born as Will Smith (Hollywood's highest paid actor) than Paul Giamatti, these are more significant crutches than what sub-culture we belong to.

>> ^chilaxe:

@NetRunner,
A racialized society in which people get jobs because of their race instead of taking the path everybody else takes is offensive to every thinking individual. Would you rather be born with the body & mind of widely-loved Will Smith or that of funny-looking Paul Giamatti? Everybody would rather be the former, because everybody knows race is a red herring.

[snip]

Humans are humans. Treat them that way, and leave 20th century thinking behind.


I don't know that "everybody" knows that. Hopefully we've gotten to a point where most people agree they should behave that way, but okay, you're preaching to the choir here.

But then, I guess you don't think you are:
>> ^chilaxe:

That liberals advocate racist discrimination against Asian-Americans in university admissions because Asian-Americans are too good tells you all you need to know about the current state of racial politics.

Can't say I have the foggiest clue what you're talking about.

It sorta tells me all I need to know about the topics you think need to be approached scientifically. The governor of Ohio appoints an all white cabinet, and Colbert and NetRunner need to be told not to jump to any hasty conclusions.

However, something you heard about some liberals advocating something is all we need to know about the current state of racial politics...

@NetRunner,

A racialized society in which people get jobs because of their race instead of taking the path everybody else takes is offensive to every thinking individual. Would you rather be born with the body & mind of widely-loved Will Smith or that of funny-looking Paul Giamatti? Everybody would rather be the former, because everybody knows race is a red herring.

That liberals advocate racist discrimination against Asian-Americans in university admissions because Asian-Americans are too good tells you all you need to know about the current state of racial politics.

Humans are humans. Treat them that way, and leave 20th century thinking behind.

He trapped himself sometime ago and I'm surprised anyone finances his stuff anymore. I saw that Lady in the Water crap on tv recently and it's staggeringly and sometimes bizarrely bad. But I was mostly disappointed that Paul Giamatti wasted time on it. Sixth Sense was good though. But you can't keep pulling that trick again and again.

I have a good response to this television image, respect for the fans of Andy Kaufman and I hold onto what boasts to be a special edition of the FORMAN film MAN ON THE MOON. On October 31, 2008, I found out my mother had bought me a VHS/DVD unit with which I was able to run tapes like my passed-around MAN ON THE MOON. I like the way Carrey and Giamatti appear in MAN ON THE MOON and I like the song The Great Beyond. That is my favourite R.E.M. song. MAN ON THE MOON co-star Danny DeVito knew Andy Kaufman? They were co-stars at one time in a comedy? I enjoyed Kaufman and DeVito when they were syndicated in an over-the-air broadcast during my childhood and MAN ON THE MOON likewise represents Kaufman's childhood as similarly comic to the one I enjoyed and I am privileged that I got to enjoy with the eyes of a child broadcasts of the DeVito/Kaufman comedy. I was almost getting cynical lately what with the lack of clear comic direction I was encountering to keep me in good spirits and I wanted very much a pointer, more indications that Andy Kaufman-style comedy continues to be effective and an expression of very sweet, funny good-natured sentiments or what have come to be those and my MAN ON THE MOON tape sleeve has a Canadian Home Video Rating of PG which illustrates how sensibilities where Kaufman-type comedy is concerned change.

>> ^id49606:
>> ^griefer_queafer:
He is patently wrong for this role.
I love PO's comedy, but he is NOT destined to be a serious actor in my opinion. He just doesn't have the range, I believe.

I'll have to completely disagree. Just looking at the trailer, without thoughts of "he's a comedian," That's a surprisingly good job for a new actor. Using the example already given of Giamatti, he adds something that Giamatti really couldn't. You already feel the intense pidgin hold on Aufiero's life, just by looking at Oswalds face. Oswald invokes a feeling of someone who's slowly losing the one thing that makes him different. Giamatti would have made the character into someone railing again all these outside forces. Even the trailer would be different in what it presents the moral of the movie as.


I'm going to have to agree with you here. Before this trailer, I'd never even HEARD of this guy. Maybe I'm sheltered or whatever but when I saw the title of this Sift, I was like "wait who?"

Then I watched it and I thought it looked pretty good. I don't see how griefer could have taken it the way he did.

>> ^griefer_queafer:
He is patently wrong for this role.
I love PO's comedy, but he is NOT destined to be a serious actor in my opinion. He just doesn't have the range, I believe.


I'll have to completely disagree. Just looking at the trailer, without thoughts of "he's a comedian," That's a surprisingly good job for a new actor. Using the example already given of Giamatti, he adds something that Giamatti really couldn't. You already feel the intense pidgin hold on Aufiero's life, just by looking at Oswalds face. Oswald invokes a feeling of someone who's slowly losing the one thing that makes him different. Giamatti would have made the character into someone railing again all these outside forces. Even the trailer would be different in what it presents the moral of the movie as.

Looks pretty interesting.

>> ^griefer_queafer:
He is patently wrong for this role.

I'm not so sure about the casting either. I was thinking Paul Giamatti would be perfect for it, but maybe he's tired of playing the "every man" role. I'll give Patton the benefit of the doubt, though, and who knows, maybe I'll be surprised.

^Nice find. Looks like Paul Giamatti!

Its the actors that get chosen, i think... totally over cast except that one with giamatti, which just wasnt good enough.

so is this the guy who controlled the wind in that last movie

LOL summer 2010 we'll all be fucking dead by then.... I think all they are making is the preview here FAKE!!


give the guy SOME credit... oh... wait the two good ones had bruce willis in them!~ props to bruce instead!

Paul Giamatti with bleached hair?