I thought the novel was pretty nice, but yeah the film is basically junk. I say this as a DePalma fan, too.

Happy New Year, ICP! Hope it's a great one for ya.

How in fuck did you have the theater to yourself? Was it a 0630 show? Kickass.

Greetings and salutations. Holy shit: the first PCW of the New Year! We're gonna remember this for minutes to come.

Yeah, setting all opinions aside on the many grey-area aspects of the case, that bit about the license plate stands out like a sore thumb. There's no real explanation offered by anyone, and then it just kinda goes away.

You get all the upvotes I have to spare. (one)

The similarity between Misskelly in the WM3 case and Brendan Dassey in this one is really obvious to the point where, if the timeline had been right, Dassey might have benefited from the WM3 case. His lawyers could easily have pointed to the WM3 situation - and its ultimate outcome - as a cautionary tale of sorts to…

I'll go a step further: anyone who can stand in front of a courtroom and say - with a straight face, knowing someone's life hangs in the balance - "innocent people don't make confessions" doesn't deserve to practice law in any capacity. Of all the ridiculous things in this documentary, that might have been the worst.

Yup, that single sentence made me want to punch him in the face. (not that I didn't already despise him by that point)

Casting the movie:

Drunk: yes
Laid: no

I'm glad we don't get limited on how many upvotes we can give over the course of a year, because otherwise my 2016 Upvote Cupboard would already be preemptively bare.

Upvoted for "massive minority".

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I'm very familiar with the wheelhouse of the site. I think that even if it was meant to be cheeky or whatever, it was a really obvious stumble. That was my thought upon reading the article title, before clicking on it, and the very first post in the comments was from someone who apparently had the same reaction.

I always thought "Personal Jesus" was just a jab at TV preachers. I also thought that was why Johnny Cash covered it, that as a (real) Christian he didn't care for the (fake) televangelists. To the extent that a person's interpretation of a song can be "wrong", maybe I'm wrong. In any event, this passage:

I don't think the implication is that pro-Jesus songs are bad, I think the implication is that being pro-Jesus is bad. That might be splitting hairs but I think it's an important distinction: we're not just talking about music, we're talking about people's deeply held beliefs.

Yeah, the article title is a little suspect, and this is coming from another very non-religious person. It's one of those "yes, I agree with you, but others might not so let's respect that" moments.

Zodiac is one of the best films of the last twenty years or so.

You son of a bitch.