I just finished Station Eleven, too. Really liked it, appreciated the suspenseful yet not too dire story line.

I hope you continue to enjoy High Rise, and check out Concrete Island if you haven't already.

Aw, jeez, I finally put the abridgment back on my "to read" shelf and now I gotta feel guilty about it?

SO GOOD. DO IT.

Ditto on everyone else's great advice here. One other thought: everyone processes information differently. If you are listening to a lecture and feel like you aren't getting it, take what notes you can and wait til you can read the text. It might click then. Or maybe you process by talking about it in a study group.…

And if you are a parent, you might imagine putting a note on your kid's neck and sending them off far away a little too strongly and spend the rest of the movie very emotional.

Kettle, with all respect and fondness, you sound like the judge on The Good Wife. I think the "in my opinion" is assumed here.

One time a kid tried to mug me and my friends with a meat tenderizer.

Just got back—-thought I would have to close my eyes and think of Ben Whishaw but ended up really enjoying it. Teared up about ten minutes in and stayed in steady oscillation between crying and laughing. Really sweet. Like if Wes Anderson and the Charlie and Lola lady teamed up.

…which I got from The Body Shop several years ago and love.

People are hard. I am happy to hear you taking care of yourself emotionally, though, internet friend.

Ugh. That's not even a question. That's passive-aggressive b.s. He probably does care and doesn't want to get into it. Which maybe sounds like where you were at, too.

Bridge Too Far sounds like great Sunday afternoon watching. Will check it out.

Glad to hear it holds up. It sounded really interesting when I heard about it.

My understanding is they got rid of most AVClub account functionality a while back. If you move to Disqus, you get to customize but have to start from scratch comments history-wise. (I am in the same boat, very sad I couldn't change my icon for Halloween.)

Did you read the column in Entertainment Weekly this week? He appreciates that, however bad The Interview is, at least it is about the present day. He points out Zero Dark Thirty (?) as the last movie that has something to say about contemporary issues. (I can't remember what his criteria are.)

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Who recommended Memories of the Future a few weeks back? So good!

Yeah, Laxness!

Ok, just got back and know what you are saying. I laughed a few times in the first third, the Wes Anderson-y part, and then it went all Cheech and Chong, which got most of the audience laughter, and then suddenly it's Scorsese and ugly and then the end is kind of Hitchcock? I appreciated the long takes, the…