Then I'll assume that's where El Grupo got it. Something new every day…

I see what you mean and it's good to know I'm not completely oblivious. My real problem I guess is that it's pretty hard to call that a parody. All it shares is the instrumentals from the original song. Makes no attempt to comment on the song itself. Seems more like lazily cashing in on a well-known song to promote…

Am I correct in assuming your name is an El Grupo reference? Don't see nearly enough of those. Bravo sir.

Seriously, what does this have to do with Royals? The article indicates that this video is in some way trying to "pick apart and explain" the song. I just youtube'd it (honestly hadn't known what Lorde was), and neither the music video nor the lyrics seemed to have much to do with what this video addresses. Am I…

One of us clearly does not understand what redundant means.

Granted, I haven't seen it in years, so maybe I need to revisit before I really understand, but I am wondering if we aren't seeing some hyperbole here w.r.t. Crash. Of course it is far from perfect and takes itself way too seriously blah blah blah I get it…but I felt it also looked really nice, featured some genuinely…

Dammit, game's over guys. The Libertarian thing was a bit too much of a stretch. It's official. Troll. Nice work up until then though. You were doing so well…what happened?

Wow really? I remember being pretty terrible at age 20. But never this bad. God I hope you are a troll. If so, well played sir. This is good stuff.

I second that bit about There Will be Blood. I was in undergrad when that came out and hadn't been paying nearly enough attention to films. A friend of mine who was rather unhelpfully prone to exaggeration kept going on and on about THE BEST FREAKING MOVIE HE HAD EVER SEEN IN HIS LIFE OMG. (Yes he said freaking). I…

Inert? Do inert characters often commit homicide in your world?

Hi, I'm Thomas McGuane, but you may call me Obvious Troll.

It took me way too long to get that.
Haven't quite mastered that particular notion of humor.
Clearly I need to start spending more time on the internet

First of all, rather disappointed in Plaza for being involved with this. Ruined. Forever.
Second, anyone else notice this seems to have been shot in Boise, ID? Landscape shot at 0:35. What a weird choice. Anyone else here cool enough to have been from Idaho?

Yeesh. Hard to say. Both are obviously doorstops. Both feature some fantastic words no one has ever heard. Both require operational understanding of at least two European languages. I guess I would say that IJ, for as techincal and involved as it was, was generally something that was meant to be followed by the…

Though I could never agree with that, I know exactly what you're talking about. I read very slowly. I have a constant fear that I might miss something as I read, and often end up rereading paragraphs and even pages several times. Pynchon, therefore, is a disaster for me. I seriously get nervous every time I sit down…

First of all, shame on you.
Second, V. is a very good place to start. I would start there even before 49, though I can't really explain why. I am at this moment about halfway through Gravity's Rainbow. I wouldn't really say alien language. More like the ramblings of a hammered genius (which they may very well be). V.…

The W.S. Anderson bit was a joke. That man shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a movie set. And well defended above. I still just can't get on board with that. I am sure he could do great things with someone else's work. I just see that as wholly unnecessary. When something is as captivating and immersive as a PTA…

I just have to bite on the PTA comment, though maybe just because I firmly believe he is the best living writer/director. Are you saying you don't like his writing? His directing? Either? What do you mean sometimes? Whose scripts should he be directing? I can count the number of changes I would make to his entire body…

While that qoutation does make the author seem awfully presumtive, I think it's important not to ignore the previous sentence. He's talking about "[his] generation of critics." How many of the people commenting on the AV club are "writing seriously" about anything? He's talking about very few people here. While I…

Unless there's some universally accepted hatred of this movie that I'm not aware of, I'm not really sure where you're getting the 'antagonistic' out of this. Antagonism toward whom/what?