Watch Manhunter sometime. Even though the first Lecter ("Lecktor" in the film) scene is plenty cinematic — framing Cox and Peterson identically between the cell bars to correlate them, for instance — it is also chock full of lush, pleasing "cinematic" shots, like this one: http://i30.tinypic.com/29ld…

Totally killer live band. Playing Riot Fest on Sunday.

Lots of disturbing shit the last few episodes: Bender plotting to kill a small girl, etc

In the movies anything can appear out of thin air, because they're the movies. Even documentaries aren't real, you know.

If something happens in a movie it could only have happened that way because the director decided it did. The movies are not real life and do not have to "make sense." It's the great Futurama gag about how the ship's engine's "move space around the ship" which is total hogwash but who cares. The show has decided it…

The plot of any movie/book/TV show/etc could have only happened the way it does — what happens happens and is not arguable — therefore there is no such thing as a plot hole. The narrative is objectively what it is and you can't make the case that it is not what it is, and everything that happens plays a role in it.…

The desire for fully-formed "believable" characters and the obsession with "plot holes" are uniquely American horseshit where we want our bedtime stories to all sound the same and get mad when they don't follow the same narrative flux. There is no such thing as a plot hole, really; just because such-and-such isn't…

Needs more smoochin'

"An absence of humanism at the show's core"

GWAR is fucking awesome and they're playing at Riot Fest and one time my friend saw a kid on crutches get caught in the middle of the thing where the two sides of the crowd run at each other.

Here's what she's ripping off this time around:

And Buckley is in large part the reason people think it's okay to do that, because he was the one who decided that a song in which a Jew refers to his lover as a Nazi is actually romantic.

@avclub-97b2d5e5f92c333976018236d76658d9:disqus https://www.youtube.com/wat…

@avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus of course there wasn't love, she probably didn't actually love him either; the requirement of monogamy is the ruination of sex in the song just as responsibility is the ruination of youth. but it never devalues the pursuit of pleasure; it's precisely free sexual…

@avclub-7706d2dc2da6837340effd985dc620b6:disqus Sondheim is brilliant! Sweeny Todd is some of the most complicated and misanthropic songwriting ever in a musical. Plus he penned almost all of the music in West Side Story. And Gilbert & Sullivan are great satirists of upper class/imperialist buffoonery.

@avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus other way around. it's not sex that leads to an eternity in (metaphorical) hell, it's love. she makes him stop and pledge himself to her in order to go any further, and in his desperation to get laid he goes along with it, but to his horror she holds him to his promise.…

Christ almighty, how lost in your own bitterness do you have to be to not enjoy musicals. Singin in the Rain? An American in Paris? The Wizard of Oz? Willy Wonka? Cabaret? (which, by the way, is a terribly misanthropic film) My Fair Lady? Little Shop of Horrors? Rocky Horror? The Producers? Mary Poppins? (which, as in…

I credit him for "Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)" seeing how he originated the role of Eddie in The Rocky Horror Show in London.

Wrong, this song is fucking awesome, Bat Out of Hell is fucking awesome, and Meat Loaf is fucking awesome. Hard to call "Paradise" nostalgia when half the premise is that Meat Loaf is wishing for time to end because he pledged himself to a girl until the end of time just to get laid. The whole final section is him…

The song that sends me up the wall more than literally any other is Jeff Buckley's ruinous cover of John Cale's cover of "Hallelujah," in which he takes an overtly hateful breakup song and thinks it's about "the hallelujah of the orgasm" (his words!).