It is crammed with funny lines. I don't read it as a comedy in its bones, though. "What heart?"

I like that element, too.

So you're mad at your parents. Okay. This tells me nothing about the music.

"It's terrible because of this pop culture narrative I've bought into."

Duane Allman didn't write the originals, though.

I like it. Not as much as the original but it's a welcome change-up and Clapton's solo is real good.

You seem sensible.

That is a ridiculous analogy. If high schools across the country are using that type of reasoning no wonder American students do so bad in comparison with other countries'.

I will go to bat for both Clapton's Unplugged and Reveal. I think they're both great.

People who don't like Monster are not interested in awesome things.

"If Fink was hired to do hack work he should just get the job done like a professional."

The studio system had/has its problems, which are referenced in the storyline, but those are more or less plot structure for the film. The focus of Barton Fink is not the inequities of Hollywood corporate structure. The focus is that Barton never had the ability to tell these "gritty stories," he just thinks (and…

To me it made sense Fischoeder would bail Felix out. Calvin basically runs the reality of that neighborhood and he's a rich white guy sticking up for his brother, another rich white guy. Of course Felix would never go to jail. It's not a fault of Bob's Burgers' writing, but a fault of our own society.

It kinda sounds like you're rooting for this to happen so you can be disappointed.

The Beery picture wasn't going to be a great work of art, but I don't think anyone at the studio presents it as being such. The only person with outsized views of himself or his place is Barton. Lipton is 100% right about Barton in the final scene they have.

No. It wouldn't have been fantastic. He wrote the same play he began the movie with as his screenplay. He's bad at what he does.

Yes, that movie was hilarious. That was one of the most surprising and darkly funny scenes. "I killed a spook!"

Fink was about a mediocre writer who was too obtuse and self-centered to recognize the reality around himself. The portrait the film paints of Hollywood is a bit cynical, but Barton is the one at fault in that movie. Not the studio system.

We pretend O Brother doesn't exist? I know the other two are AV Club whipping boys (unfairly, I think), but O Brother is pretty beloved as canon Coen.

*makes jerking motion for "around the corner"*