Coen brothers suck. Most overrated, pretentious films currently entering the market.

Scorsese's up there, although I wasn't a fan of Wolf of Wall Street. Most overhyped and overstated major film of 2013.

Spielberg's still got it. Lincoln was excellent and anyone who says otherwise is deluding themselves.

Gotta toss Eastwood in the ring. Nolan is really consistently good. And David O'Russell is one-upping himself every year it seems; I'm really growing increasingly enamored with his work. His directorial style has a unique charm that catches you in a way other directors can only attempt.

I know he's really genre specific, but I'm in some ways partial to Abrams. Wish I could say Lynch, but he's fallen off the radar in recent years much like Coppola (Francis, not Sophia, she's as bad as the Coen bothers).

Frankly, Tarantino is way up there in my book. He's probably more consistently good (for what he does) than any other director.

Of course Allen is still very prolific, and Mallick still puts out his monolithic giants every few years, so it's all very up in the air.

I don't think you can call definitively call Scorsese the current best because it's such a tossup amongst all the great directors out there currently that really it just comes down to a subjective determination of which directorial style you like best. And even I, maybe one of the biggest movie buffs out there, still couldn't possibly decide which I prefer. I'm just glad cinema is so full of great work nowadays.

I used to. I quit.

Here's the thing: I almost totally agree with you. In general, violent crime worldwide has steadily dropped over the past hundred years, and continues to do so both at home and abroad (technically at home even moreso), and this is well documented in books like Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature. However, although I realize violent crime will never hit zero, I think that police force funding, resources and personnel nationwide could be re-purposed from such pointless endeavors as the "war on drugs" to seeing that our schools are better protected. Ideally, all schools should have armed guards, to protect from violence both without and within; will this ever happen?: no. However, like I said, moving police efforts away from intensive drug busting and the like and towards better protecting schools would be a win-win with no added burden to the taxpayer: all resources could be recycled from within absent new sources of revenue; violent crime related to drugs will go down; drug related incarcerations will go down; and schools will be better protected.

On the point of mental healthcare, I absolutely could not agree more. There needs to be a sea-change in awareness about and support in improving mental healthcare throughout this entire country. This includes massive funding, massive awareness campaigns, and a massive shift in the national attitude towards treating and helping those who struggle with mental illness -- or even just a thrust towards cultural de-stigmatizing of people seeking basic counseling would be a good start! If we want to lower instances of mass shootings like this one -- albeit yes they are already statistically very low -- this is the first way to go. The problem is that right now there still exists a significant cultural stigma amongst some about seeking psychological help in any form, and before we can really make headway on the issue of mental health, that stigma has got to go. Luckily, within another generation, I think there's a good chance it will be gone nearly altogether.

Until then, some level of increased defense in schools might be an option worth looking at if it's done right.

No, but they definitely shouldn't call it Wii U anymore either.

I mean in a firefight nothing's a guarantee, but at least they'd have a fighting chance if there was some line of defense. Also, it's not necessarily the case that they'd go for guards first. They may simply try to circumvent the guards and kill as many unarmed persons as they can before the guards could get to them. I'm saying that at least if there was a trained security guard or guards on campus, that even if a shooter circumvented the guards to begin with, potential victims wouldn't have to wait purely for police to arrive: armed guards could attempt to intervene and take the shooter out.

To put it simply, some defense is undoubtedly better than no defense, and right now many schools have no defense at all.

Radiohead. Saved my life.

I wish :(

All schools need armed guards. Gun control will do little to prevent horrible instances like this one from occurring.

Still watching through them, hands down worst Bond theme song tho is for Tomorrow Never Dies. Sheryl Crow is a fucking mess in that song. Can honestly say I'd rather listen to a garbage disposal run for five minutes straight than hear her sing that.

No, vampires suck, zombies just bite.