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No snark here; I dig her style, and will see this in theatres. Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation are both top-notch, and I can appreciate Marie Antoinette for multiple reasons despite its vapidity.

"Borden Grote" was the sketch that cemented my adoration for Mr. Show. Had me crying-laughing by the time he was on the treadmill. I'm glad to see there are others sticking up for it in the comments.

I said it upstream, saying it again: I adore The Mist. Fuck-you-to-the-audience ending and all. Still haven't seen it in black and white, but want to.

100% with you. It's creepy enough horror (with Michael Emerson, nonetheless!) that devolves into absolute inanity during its second half. By the time Elwes was cutting off his foot I'd lost all interest.

I also clung to the last minute as a palliative after the previous twenty knocked the movie from a 9 to a 6. Having not read the book, I don't know whether in it the "twist" was executed as hamfistedly as in the film; I can only hope that it wasn't a straight chapter of talky exposition. What was so disappointing…

Even with its faults - bargain-basement CGI being the foremost of them - I loved The Mist before the ending, and those last few minutes pushed it into top-ten favorite horror movie territory. It might have been too bleak for some, but godDAMN did that ever impress me.

WotW is a third-act failure if there ever was one. Spielberg throws out some grisly, claustrophobic stuff (body flotilla, all the scenes surrounding the ferry, human fuel pouches) in the first 2/3, but once Tim Robbins shows up it turns steeply downhill.

I thought all of Adaptation was a rollicking good time, meta third act included. I wasn't aware that there were people - at least on the boards - who virulently disliked it.

*virtual clink of glasses for toasting, general merriment*

I watched Starship Troopers for the first time a couple of years ago, and all I knew about it was that it was supposed to be terrible. I enjoyed it, though I never would have thought that the satire could be mistaken for anything but what it was. To me, it seemed pretty cut-and-dried.

Everything July does has the same tweeness to it (e.g. the entire aesthetic of Learning to Love You More). You either like it or you don't. I do.

P&P&Z wasn't bad, for a lark. Then again, I've never been an Austen fan. One silly mash-up was enough for me, no desire to return to that well.

The Stranger's website is where you can comment on Savage Love.

Yes it does.

Not to be nitpicky, but M*A*S*H was about the Korean War, not Vietnam. The reason Apocalypse Now worked was the whole "descent into madness" vibe, not sure if a more light-hearted take on that would be a good idea or at all possible. X-Men could use a decent, live-action television take - what's Brian K. Vaughan up…

Series 7 had potential on which it utterly failed to deliver.

Hey now; I read Cosmo for the same reason I read Maxim - it is trashy, and at hand while I am bored at work.

I get the last four, but Adaptation? Nothing redeemable about it, in your opinion?

The combination of Altman and Carver should have been so much better than Short Cuts is, which is a whole lot of terrible with some decent bits. Watching it after seeing The Long Goodbye yielded such disappointing results.

Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! is where it's at when it comes to NPR.