Surprisingly, no one mentioned the reversed, skewed "closing credits" followed by machine gun titles of Irreversible. Talk about setting the tone of a film.

And speaking of "possible" provocateurs, when the camera started to slowly move towards the fetus, I was like, no, come on, no, but of course the camera continues to move until the bloody fetus fills the frame. Thanks for forcing us to wallow in our own filth for two and a half hours, Gaspar.

The acting really was terrible. With the help of imdb, I discovered that the worst offender, Paz, surprisingly has the most experience and has been acting since childhood. I honestly was assuming that she was a rookie French actress who didn't really know what was going on and whose lines had to be overdubbed by a…

Yep—somebody actually posted in this thread that because something's been around for centuries it has merit and shouldn't be disrespected. And that earned the poster polite apologies and agreement from all.

But Donnie's dead. What could a sequel even be about?

Don't country crock a random.

Only 24 hours in a day.

Because of Win Butler, I've got this scruffy little dog now and it's tearing the shit out of my stuff. It's cute as hell, though.

Aw crap
We're doing this already? I'll watch the next one, I swear.

You guys missed an easy closer after Modell's sizzurp line about Brian Jonestown drinking the kool-aid. Try harder next time.

I saw U2 once in my life in the late 90s and there were no political speeches at all. And they played their hits. It was fun.

The koala was named after Teddy Roosevelt.

I am awesome.
Fine, they may have been the two easiest predictions ever, but I totally predicted the results of both of the avclubbookclub book selection polls so far. Give me a challenge next time.

Good christ, MJ. For one, "metaphor" is commonly used to simply mean "any figure of speech" as I'm sure you're well aware. Secondly, your definition of simile is absolutely not agreed upon by the people who use it. If anything, yours is the minority view of the definition. Your quack-pedantry adds nothing here.

I saw him open for the Old 97s in Cincy a few years back and he didn't play that song, though he did play lots of other greats.

I actually thought that 2/3 of this episode was very mediocre. The writing was pretty terrible through the B and C stories, right? Corny lines like, none of the colleges want me, "I want you" and the heavy handed—what do I want to be when I grow up/you're pretty good at farming, Luke one two punch. And who didn't…

It's about fucking time
that Tami points out what a waste her work has been and how awful she and the other people who work at her public school are. Damn right she's going to be sending Gracie to a charter school.

Please. Pissing off White is child's play. Let's see how these critics could handle the combined efforts of Chloe Sevigny's handlers.

*backstroking*

Did I miss the part where you guys apologize for slavery?