I still can’t figure out how anyone thought Shallow from A Star Is Born was anything other than trite pap.  Yet in the movie every time someone heard it they were enraptured.  It’s a boring, shallow (sorry) ballad sung by someone with a great voice.

I don’t know about the first four movies, but Trump fucking hated Central Park 5.

I would be more upset that my dad is still ridiculously handsome & I’m just a average looking kid.

Did AVClub just publish an interesting retrospective essay that isn’t clickbait about some topic-of-the-day?? Does The Herb know you snuck this through?

Not quite.  What Kael did was literally ask for research from someone and never give them credit, passing it off as her own and even altering parts of the research to fit her conclusions.  Tarantino is greatly inspired by a wide range of films and many of his movies hem close to them, but there's always something…

Ugh god I hate Pauline Kael, a pretentious bomb thrower who plagiarized peoples works to make terrible arguments, her contributions to the argument of autier theory was good but overall I care not for her work.

“Corporate Avril”? Dude, Avril Lavigne was assembled in a lab by an Arista Records PR team. “Punk Rock” was just the filter they laid over this random teenage state fair country singer to make her stand out. She was never even close to some DIY free spirit empowered by the music.

Cat’s Cradle is one of the best books ever written by an American author.

Oscar Isaac don’t know Vonnegut.

An article about correcting mistakes on a site that rarely corrects its own mistakes. I’m going back to bed.

Because it makes sense and that’s why every country does it this way.

... and *another* thing, Vonnegut! I’m gonna stop payment on the check!

That was also my takeaway. Her analysis sounds like my least favorite flavor of modern cultural criticism, which is more or less that everything isa symbol for some Larger Cultural Conversation and the author’s own views on it. Like every single line of dialogue and action must be read as making some distinct…

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I’m confused by what she means when she mentions the dialog referencing Vonnegut. Is it supposed to be bad because Vonnegut isn’t a feminist author or because the female character should have been reading his books herself?

I found a (kind of) plot hole immediately. The Buick Regal the parents are offering in the ad is a Fourth Generation Regal (1997-2005), it’s too old for the Uber vehicle requirements.

While (the original) True Grit was a good enough film, so maybe it’s not the most undeserving, but it’s win over Midnight Cowboy has to be one of the greatest gulfs between the film that won and the film that should have won. That was the year that my eyes were opened to what the Oscars are really about.

Seconded. Although there’s something to be said for Titanic pulling off what it did — massive commercial appeal for displaying an event 85 years in the past, after a troubled shoot that had some people doubting the film could succeed — its main story was eye-rollingly bad. It’s only saved only by Leo’s and Kate’s…

Titanic.

This whole article and you can’t bother to list a single example of a valuable $2 bill?

Newsflash - if your $2 bill is from 1976 and NEWER - It’s worth $2. MAYBE you can convince some sucker to pay more for a CRISP 1976 $2 bill, or if it has a unique serial # (binary, trinary, birthdate) they are worth more but that…