Also, not a new observation or anything, but it's terrifying how nihilistic and hateful trolling culture (for lack of a better term) has become; like, it's not just "Hey guys, check out this fucked-up photo;" it's more like "Hey guys, we now have a tool we can use to traumatize an entire family! Lulz!" See also:…

I actually think that 'Carnivale' tells a reasonably complete story. Not AS complete as it should be, but for me the ending of the show works as an ending, if you catch my drift. Anyway, yes, it was certainly ahead of its time and would've done much better in our era of streaming, binge-watching and live-Tweeting.

There's also 'How to Make a Monster,' which is all about the dangers of video games and the internet, and in which it turns out that (SPOILERS for an awful TV movie from 2001) people are the REAL monsters, man.

Worth noting that 'Spirited Away' was certainly not overlooked in its native Japan, where it's the highest-grossing film of all time and where it and pretty much all the Ghibli films are beloved cultural touchstones. But yes, more people should see it because it's legitimately one of the greatest films ever made.

Yes, Mr. Sherman, everything stinks.

And actually, 2013 was no slouch, either: 12 Years a Slave, Gravity, Her, Upstream Color, Stories We Tell, Prisoners, The Counselor, The Act of Killing, Room 237, Under the Skin, Computer Chess, Leviathan (the documentary about fishing boats), lots of highly-acclaimed films that I haven't actually seen yet…

Even though it wasn't a great movie-year overall, I'm forever partial to 2006 for giving us Children of Men, The Prestige, and Pan's Labyrinth.

Also, Grindhouse and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

My first exposure to it was a review in a local paper where the critic thought it was just an aimless, pointless rehashing of previous Lynch films. I went out and saw it anyway, though.

THE REAL TOP 100 LIST:

Yeah that line bothered me, too. Certainly it's naive to think that documentaries represent some sort of pure, unadulterated truth, but to say that there's no difference, in terms of veracity, between the documentary and the fictionalized versions of a given story is a huge oversimplification.

Luthius's response to OldTownGail's response to Khmer Stooge WILL SHOCK YOU.

Fan art is a pretty good barometer for the quality of a show, and Stranger Things has generated what feels like a massive amount of really impressive fan art. The particular project in this post is nifty and all, but there's lots more out there.

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I long for the days when a pretty lady would post a funny video, and the responses from lonely, nerdy guys would be genial encouragement in the vague hope that the pretty lady might notice them and have sex with them eventually. Nowadays, the responses from lonely, nerdy guys are misogynistic vitriol, stemming from…

Oh, come on now, she's a pretty young lady who has strong opinions on film, and she's poking fun at a movie that a lot of angry, young nerd-dudes are fond of. Why would the YouTube comments for such a thing be anything but positive, supportive, intelligent and kind?

No one ever seemed to have an opinion on that Jar Jar guy, which was strange. If only I knew how people on the internet felt about him… Oh well, one can dream.

On an anecdotal level: I do think that intellectually-motivated, creative people live longer than others. Like, if I meet an elderly person who's a writer or an artist (or something like that) I generally assume that they'll have more energy than others at the same age. Apparently there was a 2012 study that found…

STRAIGHT-UP NUPS!!

You get to watch everyone you care about die.