I'm happy to consume art by crazy people. If I didn't, there would be significantly less art for me to consume. I'm less happy about consuming art by terrible people.

Yes, it's very good, though it's also super polished, so if that's not what you want from QOTSA, be warned.

Kanye operates on a purely emotional stream-of-consciousness wave that works wonders with music even if it doesn't make any sense everywhere else. I don't think self-awareness has anything to do with anything.

There's a moment in Burton's version where Depp's Wonka turns around and is surprised to find Charlie standing behind him. He had temporarily forgotten the kid existed. That's the moment that best illustrates the central problem with that movie. Depp barely processes the existence of the children. At least Wilder…

I had to teach myself to figure out what I ultimately really connected to, but I still would point to my older brother as my jumping off point. He introduced me to comics, particularly titles beginning with Bat- and X-, though I'm not sure how much of the reason I clicked with those series were because he liked them…

I'm in the middle of that right now and really enjoying it. Especially De Haven's version of Lex Luthor, who is deeply, ruthlessly evil in a way that is frighteningly believable. His encounter early in the book with Lucky Luciano's gunmen in the cemetery is amazing.

@avclub-6c6094f256f51e83fe02bce6091163e7:disqus Also her jerk boyfriend needs to get impaled and exploded.

In advance of Man of Steel, I've been going through Tom DeHaven's It's Superman! I'm enjoying the original take on Superman for the most part, though I think it probably could be shortened and focused by not spending so much time in the perspective of ancillary characters. (Though his versions of Lois and Lex are…

Geez, apparently everyone here is a cranky old man. Why go to a music festival if you only want to see one band? Why are you going at all if you hate being outdoors?

"Crazy Rap" is "Colt 45." And it's spectacular.

"Celery soup is pretty exciting too!"

I feel like it was an especially strong Dan episode, as his normal "barely holding things together" role was replaced by a "nobody could possibly give a shit about this movie" role.

@Pgoodso:disqus I have nothing to add beyond that this was a hell of a post and I agree with everything you've said. This is probably the biggest reason why, should a Bioshock movie ever be made, it would be doomed from the start to be an inferior product. Too many of the primary themes are inherent to the game…

Your tolerance for the movie depends entirely on how much you care about owl problems.

Sucker Punch is easily his worst film. His ideas are always were he falls short (which was the problem with Watchmen, substituting many of the book's ideas with his own misunderstandings), and Sucker Punch is dedicated entirely to his ideas.

As of this post, I'm starting to think Ghostbusters 3 could actually work as a very bizarre experimental film where an actual hole is left for Bill Murray. Characters will react to and have one-sided conversations with a Venkman that isn't there. At times the camera will just pan over to nothing, staying there for the…

@avclub-001d507e80c4e4d2ce4ba0a5590f8313:disqus finds Bran chapters just as engaging as end credits.

Pretty much everyone except the Freys.

Just take a look at my avatar. I'm all over this once I get home from work.

I keep forgetting that it's not common knowledge for non-readers who Theon's torturer is at this point. My wife asked me why Theon was being tortured and I told her for the LOLs, and immediately afterwards the show had Ramsay's game about making Theon guess who, where, and why.