Raymond: Uh oh fart. Uh oh fart.
Charlie: Did you fart, Ray? Did you fucking fart?
Raymond: Fart.
Charlie: [Trying unsuccessfully to open the door] How can you stand that?
Raymond: I don't mind it.
Charlie: How can you stand it?
Raymond: Ten minutes to Wapner. We're definitely locked in this box with no TV.

I wanna start by saying this film in no way accurately portrays a person with autism, but I'll give it a pass on that because considering when this film was released we didn't know near as much about autism as we do now. With that being said I felt the performances were excellent especially Hoffman who really became the character he was giving to play…

Purely coincidentally, Rain Man happens to be the second Levinson film I've watched today and the two couldn't be more different. Going from a cheap (in a good way) found-footage flick to a drama featuring two of the most well-known actors of their time is quite jarring when they're both made by the same person. Levinson's highly acclaimed film thematically deals with two festival-favourites at the same time, a mentally handicapped protagonist and a dysfunctional family. On paper it sounds exactly like something I'd hate considering previous Hollywood treatments of either of those, but I'm pleased to report that for once they not only got it right, I actually thoroughly enjoyed it.

Tom Cruise does the usual Cruise performance and…

Rain Man is a legendary American classic, the film is still quoted and referenced in all facets of our society. Despite its longstanding status as a mainstream favorite, I was surprised by how conventional the script is. Sure, it may have broken some boundaries in its discussion of mental illnesses, but it follows the standard formula of the road trip movie religiously.

That isn't a bad thing; traditional often feels like a comfortable familiarity, and there is a reason the formula works. And it does work very well for Rain Man, I just never realized the film played so by-the-book. That isn't the only misconception about the movie I had. I thought the card-counting detour to Vegas was a larger…

This film is so 80s. And as I sound like a bad radio dj, let me say that this is a perfect way to describe this film. The only way there could be any more 80s to this film is if Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman were in high school and Tom Cruise had to go to Prom with the girl of his dreams as they turn 16. But instead we have ridiculous 80's music that often feels out of place while Cruise and Hoffman go on a road trip.

Now is this film bad? God no. This is a wonderful film. Do I think it is best picture good? No. I think this is good but when I see…

So, Tom Cruise - to my knowledge - has never had a serious drug problem. But there is a fact everyone does know: he doesn't channel his remarkable, consistent intensity throughout his endless intense performances from thin air. The guy has problems. Either he is an insufferable prick in real life with entitlement issues and an angry streak you wouldn't dare cross after seeing that look in his eyes, or, yeah, he's a closeted gay man who has devoted his life to denying it from himself and the entire world. Or he could be both. He has no fear, just a psychotic dedication to controlling his image. (His mistakes were entirely human ones- he just doesn't understand that people have…