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David Mumpower: For my money, felons on the run are not portrayed as the misunderstood love interest in movies anywhere near often enough. Everyone has crafted excellent replies in this thread. Occam's Razor applies, though. Labor Day fails the laugh test. That is why it was pushed out of awards contention season. And it is why the movie bombed this weekend. If anyone you know is thinking about watching the film, either talk them down from the cliff or push them off of it. Either way is superior to watching Labor Day.

Reagen Sulewski: Oh, those wacky parody films... wait, this wasn't a parody of what romance movies are like? Ye gods.

Kim Hollis: What was your favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman role?

Brett Ballard-Beach: Well, seeing this question was a very blunt "shock to the system" way of finding out this saddening news. My favorite role of his would probably be a split between the screenwriter in State and Main and the villain in Mission: Impossible III. His role that will probably reverberate with me the longest: Caden Cotard in Synecdoche, New York. And my all-time favorite scenes of his: singing "Slow Boat to China" to Joaquin Phoenix in The Master, and his incessant "shut ups" over the phone to Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love. I'm going to go off alone and cry some more.

Edwin Davies: It's incredibly hard to choose, not merely because he was one of my favourite actors, but because he was one of those rare performers who was always great, even in movies that weren't. All of his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson would rank fairly highly. He was great in all five films they made together, but they also showcased his tremendous range; it's hard to believe that the cocky punk in Hard Eight is the same guy playing the creepy stalker in Boogie Nights, the desperate nurse in Magnolia, the ferocious, terrifying Mattress Man in Punch-Drunk Love, or the magnetic, beguiling Lancaster Dodd in The Master. He could do pretty much anything, and he committed to everything he tried his hand at. He brought tremendous weight and menace to his role as the most memorable villain in the Mission: Impossible series, and delivered some truly hilarious lines in Charlie Wilson's War with real intensity. He was an amazing talent, and it's such a terrible shame that we've lost someone who would have continued to give it his all.

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