SPOILERS?

is that the two times cut? two times cut?

those don't seem right at all either.  Were they from the back of the original VHS?  Mona Lisa being the least of the offenders, but still with a taste of "did the designer SEE the film in question?"

"and if he STILL doesn't answer?…"

Is anyone else bummed that one of their favorite movies received one of the worst criterion cover art treatments? 

Gosh I feel like Taxi Driver and Eraserhead got their due over time, but Barry Lyndon! I still feel like the crazy town cryer desperately pleading with folks to watch that one to no avail.  Just a walk through a museum come to life for me, thank you for bringing it up here.

truly, those were the days [of heaven]

Always loved New World but just recently treated myself to the extended blu-ray.  Lost is right - and don't come a-lookin' for me either!  Treat yourself if you haven't.

*he's not dead voicover*

I think Breaking Bad's character arcs are in part about potential. I think this was the Walt that was always waiting to get out, just as I think Skylar was always looking to bail out on her life too.

For many a season I felt like Skyler was always a lousy wife looking for an out, and was given her easy excuse, just like Walter is truly who he is now, and cancer was the excuse.  I know Skyler was lied too a bunch but she just couldn't wait to bail on Walter, and just because Walt's actions are validating it now…

It may easily be the hardest thing I ever had to stomach for television when I saw it, and that's after watching Cherrypoppers!   But Cherrypoppers seemed like a far off world of extreme black and white evil (though I acknowledge its sad realities), whereas beating Connie was something so much more complex.

cheers! I usually have my thumb hovering above mute, or I go get a glass of water or something.

everything after Deadringer bored me to tears.  Have you tried the Avalanches "Since I Left You"?  Or older Four Tet records, before he became an embarrassing club DJ?

I'm eternally grateful to BB for that.  Makes all other opening seem self indulgent.  The Wire could be a chore depending what season it was.  The Shield had the courtesy of being an LA-encapsulating 10 seconds, but boy did you pay for it

I'm not sure this totally captures the ESSENCE of the film and what it was about (though certainly 70s decadence is part of it), but it IS awesome, and has a lot of suits!

That and all the half hearted ways they "look at modern society through the prism of the past" fall much shorter for me than it seems to the rest of the world.   The show still seems to idealize the era, and fans do as well, while much of the deplorable ugliness behind the facade seems lost even on the writers at…

I am not a fan of the show, but that (and Betty shooting birds) was worth the price of admission in season 1

allegedly even DuckTails and Gummi Bears had similar prog rock extended editions

I think you've articulated one of the many reasons I can't get behind the show.  The way the world fawns over the characters and fantasizes about the time and lifestyle, I keep waiting for the show's grand reveal to be "surprise! Every character was always deplorable, vapid, and irredeemable!"