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FINALLY.  I was about to post in amazement how nobody mentioned any of the Russo-Finnish productions.  "Jack Frost" was fantastic, as was "The Day the Earth Froze," featuring absurd hero Lemminkäinen and the SAMPO ("You'd think the 'gold' line would be longer….")

Well, shit, where am I going to find a place to buy dusty old copies of Mademoiselle!?

I have to admit, I couldn't not see a film about attractive women fighting orcs, WWI germans, samurai robots, and dragons.  If the action sequences had been framed with something approaching coherence, I would've loved it.

He didn't say it had the problem of being at once insultingly simple and incredibly convoluted.  Or "straightforward" and "convoluted."  That'd be closer to a malapropism.  Something can be both "obvious" (by lacking subtlety) and also "convoluted."  Somebody already mentioned Inception.

Oh man.  Thanks for the laugh, uselessbeauty.

Very true.  My girlfriend really liked it, in fact.

The terrible part is when you happen across an example of it by accident, and it involves a porn actress you've liked in other things, and she's licking the other woman's prolapse.  True story.

I'm not sure how to "big budget-ize" two women 69-ing in an attic.

I think this is spot on.  I wonder if the ambiguity of meaning behind the action sequences will eventually result in a shitload of online analysis.

I was glad he talked about Huff.  It always struck me as weird that the show was billed as a psychologist who "wakes up in the middle of it" when one of his patients commit suicide, but then his character didn't really display any sort of dramatic change in behavior.  The other people around him (especially Paget

I was going to say Githyanki.

Yes, very nice.

Hmm.  Kate Gosselin in S&M porn.

You just blew my MIND.

Absolutely.

I'd rate in an A- also.  Karen Gillan's performance as "Old Amy" was easily the best work she's done.  It was simply heartbreaking.  I loved some of the smaller bits of business too, like when she first brings Rory to her 'hideout' and briefly considers putting on red lipstick. 

There have been a few occasions where somebody's asked for help, not gotten it, and followed it up with "You'd do it for Randolph Scott."  At which point I'd immediately drop whatever I was doing to help out.  As a Blazing Saddles fan, how could I NOT?

THIS.  I think you're completely correct here.  Without giving any explanation for it, people had no idea how to understand what he was doing or how to put it into a proper context.  It took tremendous guts to do it.  

Nope, I saw him too, thereby prompting a What The Actual Fuck? when I saw it.

If I count, then yes.  Although I may have pissed myself due to excessive drinking, and/or for my webcam viewers.