wilder never met a line too purple for him, at least in the 40s

has there ever been a movie with a fictional author where any examples of the author's prose weren't either embarassingly shitty or utterly impenetrable?

how about 'single handedly responsible for the rebirth of the kkk'?

you know characterizing it as 'stealing his girlfriend' makes it sound as though barbara has no agency whatsover, whereas in the show it's fairly clear that the decision is primarily hers- and that bats is, as much as anything, not very good at pushing away inappropriate intimacy

to be fair, detective chimp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… ) is one of the more perceptive figures in the DC universe.

You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.

You can make music come out of a record with a sewing needle, like a mechanical intermediary helps but in a sense isn't required. To me, that's cooler still- it's music with an actual, visible, physical presence.

i lost my first turntable when my cat pounced on a copy of Dylan's Desire as it spun and knocked if off the table. So a.) my cat is a harsh critic and b.) let's see that happen with an mp3

More like Chronicle of a Bummer, am I right?

somebody hasn't seen a little masterpiece called Young Einstein

maybe they'd feel better if we stopped threatening to bomb them all the time. if i'm an iranian citizen, i've got pretty good reason to worry about dehumanizing portrayals in american media, since the end might well be that my house gets blown up

not really- it's a neofascist celebration of a historical event in which the romantically fascist elements are highlighted and the contrasting ones are hidden or disposed of

haha yeah but the ratio in sparta was something like 1 spartan to 8-10 helots, so the vast majority of women didn't get to do fuck all

I wish Melissa Galsky got more voice work. It seems like she gets a fair number of guest spots on Bob's Burgers, and she was on that show that never went anywhere where she was Jon Benjamin as the devil's daughter, but I don't think I've seen her anywhere else.

I put the soundtrack on my iPod and I have literally never skipped this or the any of the Franz Kafka song cycle. And it never stops being funny.

"Winds up with" makes it sound like you didn't have herpes already

I think a thing that differentiates Jeselnik from a lot of asshole comics is that most of the time, those guys are working on the 'he's saying what we're all really thinking but are afraid to say' kind of thing- like, they're supposed to be the asshole we all secretly have inside us. Which means that a.) their jokes…

I'll go ahead and say it's not good, certainly not as good as Triplets, though the animation remains beautifully wrought and hugely expressive- the tone is almost comically maudlin, and it never gets out from under it. It's worth a watch, but succeeds neither as a Tati movie (foregrounding and sentimentalizing the…

haha, the talking animation on the cat is fucking amazing. like, terry gilliam style construction paper stop motion would be a huge, huge step up

The actual Christopher Walken McBain is awesome, it's about a bunch of like shellshocked Vietnam vets who invade a country in South America for no particular reason and using entirely private arms. Also, it's got Luis Guzman.