At the end of the day, I just can’t get over him killing his little sister.   Obviously all the killings are bad, but the other ones feel more impersonal to the viewer.

Why did it take so many messages to get to this? Avclub standards really have fallen 

I thought it was, you guessed it ...

I thought it was Shailene Woodley.

I put Darjeeling and Life Aquatic higher. I cannot give a specific reason, though, except for Darjeeling it is at least partially due to personal family history. I have had zero desire to see the animated ones. Bottle Rocket is worth a look for completist reasons, though I do not need to see it again. Maybe there is…

My list is almost identical to yours. I almost don’t even count Bottle Rocket as an Anderson film, which I saw a million years ago. I don’t remember anything about it besides being underwhelmed overall, though impressed at what I thought were the acting chops of the Wilson brothers. In retrospect I think they’re…

I love Wes Anderson but continue to be vexed by the love Royal Tenenbaums gets. Don’t get me wrong, I see its charm, but it’s frequently invoked as his best film. For me it ranks as my personal least favorite (not counting Darjeeling Limited, the only Anderson film I still haven’t seen).

Ken Jennings may literally be the funniest guy on Twitter. Would be a shame for his legacy to be judged on one terrible joke out of thousands of great ones. 

The tweet was in 2014. I don’t know what the sentence in the stocks in the public square should be, but it feels like nearly eight years is just about enough.

People get upset when comfortable, long-established institutions have to change, even if they didn’t really give a fuck about them on a day-to-day basis.

This documentary sounds very well done, but I don’t think I can watch it. My wife and I were living in Virginia at the time of the attack. I had passed through the Pentagon metro station minutes before the plane hit on my way to DC for a law school class, and she worked close enough to the Pentagon that the crash…

I was in North Jersey, home from college, right after my freshman year, and out for a run when a car swerved off the road and nearly hit me. I was furious/scared and then confused when the car pulled over and I saw it was a kid I’d gone to grade school/high school with, a guy named Darryl*. I’d always got along with…

Love the last sentence. I was coming here to say “You’re trying waaaaay too hard” until I read that and LOL’d.

In retrospect I guess she didn’t have to dig too deep to prepare for her small-but-meaningful role in Promising Young Woman.

The Green Knight is a solid contender but I don't want to spoil it. 

Yes, thats a good assessment, capitalism is at the end of the day the villain for how all these characters interact with the world. But it’s a bit hopeless to never hold people like Shane accountable while trying to hold Armond/Kai/Belinda because they did tangible actions viewers can point to as “bad”. But I think…

Daddario agrees in her Time Magazine interview that Rachel doesn’t necessarily stay out of a newfound willingness to be a trophy wife and that she might eventually leave Shane.

And even Belinda might not have been enough. Because Belinda was a total stranger to Rachel so how could she have helped? It was obvious that she was in a position that leaving would have left her worse off.

I think Rachel maybe doesn’t want to jump ship right away. It’s the sad reality of feeling obliged to go back to him when no one would give her a shoulder to cry on.

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