I am skipping over your comments on The Lobster after you said it was a favorite of the year! By that I mean I'm excited for it, glad you liked it, but don't want to read too much in advance. "Dogtooth" was so interesting, I'm stoked to see what he has cooking this time.

Keep trying. It's ok.

Finished S2 of Hannibal. I love the show but it has some issues that are hard to get past. Of course NBC is partly to blame. Not in a state of mind to elaborate.

It's cool, they're all just brothers from another mother, sorta like Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Strictly for the Caddy lovers.

Good to find another Manzarek hater. He even tries to ruin X's awesome "the world's a mess, it's in my kiss" with his jive bullshit solo. Then there was his endless "Jim was like a shaman, man" garbage. Ugh, just the worst hippie nonsense.

It's one of my favorite movies of the past ten years!

I'm drunk as hell and even I know that the answer is NO

Oh wow, we are kindreds on this (assuming you're talking about Storytelling Part 1 on Aquemini). Andre's verse on that track is my favorite rap verse ever. Sure, it's bursting with energy, and it's rhythmically complicated and all that. But the best part? The uncut emotion. I get a little choked up on that one.

Have you seen "The Indian Runner"? It's stellar.

First, I would argue that style can be substance. Unfortunately, this discussion can quickly slip into "whoa man, what does anything mean at all, art is totally subjective" territory from which very few can recover.

Something tells me that he'll blame someone else.

Yeah I wonder how he convinces people like Theron and Bardem to do this kind of obvious schlock. Back in the day, maybe, but jeez folks it's time to smell the coffee.

It sounds like exactly what I thought it would be: a clueless Sean Penn-directed "drama" starring Two Beautiful People against a Tragic Backdrop and let me guess there's Big Human Emotions and possibly Damn War Sucks makes an appearance.

I think it's basically the same. We're just getting exposed more and more to immediate reactions because of technology. That's not a bad thing, just a simple truth. Movies get booed and panned all the time at Cannes. There's always mini-controversies.

I can't even tell you how much I agree with this, and not only in relation to film/theater-going. You are absolutely right: people have trouble these days experiencing something for what it is by itself, and not for what it might mean as viewed through their boring selfish cultural lens.

Straight fuckin' French Thunderdome, good comparison.

Agreed. If his new movie was met with boredom and sighs, that would be far worse than people screeching about how bad it is.

Yeah I think we're supposed to realize what an asshole Martin is, which is why it really means something when he turns a corner. I think it's made pretty explicit when Debbie challenges him about his actions and he clumsily says something like "But I only killed those people for MONEY" and then immediately realizes…

Third time I'm chiming in on the topic, but I can't help myself: yes, it's "Sgt Pepper" and I don't know how Gethard doesn't get this, given how much he clearly loves the movie.

"Aw fuck you guys!".