"claim the thrown"?
Oh dear.

Actually, i remember the going-to-shitness as being a little earlier, February or so, when a sudden, massive influx of new posters all with some variant of Fuqtard McShitmypants as their handle started posting one-line movie quotes and saying "poop" a lot. Oh, for the halcyon days of 2007.

You misspelled 'Juilliard' again.
That's twice this month. Have you got a problem with elitists or something?

No worries - a little thing civilized people like to call "The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" will deal with it eventually. Sad to have the fact that something over half of my fellow California voters are moral Neanderthals so forcibly confirmed, tho.

did they…
…ditch the insanely annoying voice actor that played the villains in the first two films? If so, that'd be worth an extra half-grade right there.

You've been waiting a very long time to post that, haven't you?

she's up against all-male antagonists
So, no hermaphroditic antagonists, then? Bummer.

WTF?

"Bard of The Sweatpants Set Rosie O'Donnell is ramping up her own play on the white-bread-and-shitty-circuses skein"
You may think that that sentence actually *means* something. But it doesn't, actually. FYI. Thanks, though.

Kidult
Griffith got it from Vincent Canby. Not sure if it's original with him.

I've always liked the *idea* of Oulipo better than most of its realizations, but haven't gotten to LAUM yet - thx for the rec.

Well, if you're serious, probably Max Brod. Apparently they had hipster douchebags back in the '30's, too.

You're damn right i did. A nation that thinks movies showing torture and violence are just fine, but showing people without clothes isn't? A nation that thinks that some words have magical powers, and therefore can't be written or spoken?

not defending the subject, but…
…Charles Wuorinen rocks. If you ever get a chance to see/hear "The Whore of Babylon" (often referred to here in Xtian Amerika as "The W. of Babylon), do - a pastiche of baroque opera cliches, it's one of the funniest things i've ever heard. "Haroun" was pretty good, too.

your theory, which is yours
"I have a theory that the very famous tend to stop developing emotionally and intellectually at the age of their greatest personal and professional success."
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Insightful, but in no way limited to the "very famous". Most people i know are like this.

woo hoo!
An IndieTM music festival! Sponsored by Toyota!! Humble, laidback[sic], eclectic, and mythic! YEAH!!!

"sasquatch"
I want to see more A.V. Club coverage of the ToyotaTM Music Festival.

They use a Lotus Notes database for their dead people? That's… strangely appropriate.

"the dynamic exploration of the still photograph"
Am i the only one who finds this technique insanely annoying? Show me the whole damn picture, and *i'll* chose what part of it to look at, thank you very much. Mutter grumble, films these days.

OK, maybe different != worse. But i kind of miss the old style.