If you buy them used, they're often not much more than the cost of a rental ($5!), only there's no late fees and you can theoretically lend them to your friends. For someone like me who doesn't watch enough movies to make netflix worth it, buying is often the way to go.

Milkman, I'm with you. The discussion of whether Williams gets a lifetime pass makes no sense to me. If anything, he has repeatedly earned his lifetime fail. You have to go back over a decade to find a watchable movie (1997, Good Will Hunting). And with the possible exception of Aladdin, I don't see a single movie…

Yes, Grandma! Thank you. I was just having this conversation on the Robert Jordan book thread. The death (or really, horrible half life) of a main characters for absolutely no plot purpose absolutely infuriated me. I actually liked (though not loved) the book until that point. I thought he was doing something…

If you count zombie as a genre, World War Z was a massive step forward, putting serious thought into questions that never get asked in most zombie stories, and doing a pretty good job of answering them. I loved the consideration of both (a) politics, and (b) what strategies a military would employ against unending…

You're right, there was one a few weeks ago (which I was also involved in). http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Frailty is a great, great movie. Not perfect by any means. But it nails the atmospherics so well, and the premise is fantastic.

The first third of that movie is my favorite action movie of all time. I just wish it kept up that pace. The rest is still wonderfully quotable though.

I'll chime in to say that I think it's a great but flawed movie. The biggest problem is that the movie manages to fit in three mini-movies. Two are hilarious, the third is not. That doesn't make the last part bad, just out of place. I put it in the same category as Magnolia, where the flaws are something that can…

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You know, I actually had a violently negative reaction to China Mieville. I was interested in the world he created in Perdido Street Station, and then there's a spoiler that I won't mention that just seemed so unnecessary and I felt like he betrayed me. One of the few books I gave away after I finished reading.

So you're saying he needed to create a subplot in order to use it as a tool to end other subplots? That's an interesting way of looking at it. I see it more as, "Oh no, I ran out of things for these characters to do, and I don't want the story to end yet. Wait! I've been talking about how the weather is bad the…

Herman: So I stopped reading your comment (and the rest of the replies) once I realized you were getting into spoiler-land, but had to address this:

Oh yeah, one more:

Thanks for this list. I love the first two books on your list, which means I have high hopes for the rest. A few you might want to check out:

I need to calibrate the positive reviews.
Zack (and others who are saying its a good read): How do you feel about Elantris? Because that book is pretty highly reviewed, written by Brian Sanderson, and I found it to be completely unreadable because of terrible, terrible one-note characters, and terrible, terrible…

I made it about 40, hoping against hope that once they got to the cooking there would be some interesting teaching going on. It was not to be.

Yeah, I guess what everyone is complaining about is why I don't like those last three minutes, but don't mind the switch. Up until you get evidence that God is tampering with evidence, you don't have to buy that Matthew McConaughey is an agent of God. The fact that he's the younger brother can just be that he's…

I can agree that the ending is only so-so, but really, worst ever? Worse than Signs, where a super-advanced alien race decides to invade a planet that is covered over 70% with alien-acid just to reaffirm some random minister's faith in god? Worse than High Tension, which makes absolutely no sense at all?

Excuse me sir. You left out both of the star wars movies that came out in the 80s. Also Die Hard. Your list is broken. (I will assume the exclusion of other movies, like Ferris Bueller, are because they don't qualify as blockbusters.)

They were wearing those snuggies
last week during a Conan episode. My girlfriend and I spent the entire time trying to figure out what the hell they were. We could not figure out why Weezer would be wearing what looked exactly like snuggies with their name on emblazoned on the front. "Maybe they want to make sure…