Yesssss. "The Boat that Rocked" Is probably their worst offender in this regard. Also a pretty offensively bad in pretty much every other area too.

I remember on one of these threads, someone made a fairly disgusting and hilarious comment, and then someone quoted it in the context of the final presentation in "The Wheel", adding something to the effect of Harry Crane welling up and leaving the room. Does anybody remember where that was? It was all so fuckin'…

Coolsville is for posers. The real scene's in Coolsburg

I seem to recall Moby's "Play" lining about a third of the space available in those bins for a while…

@avclub-d6a67a3808af66a2c60a8d8cb41468db:disqus , the British office is way more meta with the impact of the presence of its documentary crew though. It's strongly implied that Brent was a decent enough employee and manager before he made it his goal in work to mug for the documentary crew and revive his latent…

Those "oh"s sound like he's doing something untoward to poor Wilson's corpse now…

Only if David Hyde Pierce grew the same moustache he had in Wet Hot American Summer.

Nah. That was cool. The book is short and not all that deep, but suggestive of a lot of things, and very well designed. The adaptation is one interpretation of the subtext suggested by the book.

Adaptations don't owe anything to the source material, really. Some of the best even run completely counter to the source material's intentions. This one keeps the plot outline and adds depth, narrative and visual interest, without attempting to eclipse the original text. That makes it a good adaptation in my…

No.

@avclub-c2023af23a02a04d9f58966bafd8969a:disqus, all the other heads will be on spikes, and there will be one little head on a bamboo skewer…

"I postulate that, given the sociopolitical context, commonly employed themes, and canon of aesthetic influences present in this movement, that this shit is dumb as balls."

I like how your negative portrayal of her includes the incapacity to use the word "nonetheless" correctly.

It's a dumb idea to free kids that young of expectations anyway. As I understand it, the point is instead to shape their naive-as-fuck little heads into something resembling a decent human being with self worth that hinges on real substance, no?

We like our pseudo-feminism believable, dammit!

Or pandering down while trying to look like you're pandering up.

I never got why elves, fairies and vikings fit into all that. How is that shit pretentious? At worse its terminally goofy. No one thinks talking about fairies is something cool, smart people do.

Fucking pretentious hipster sellouts

What?

Spot on. To build on that, academics might take something seriously as subject matter, but not as art. An academic might study black metal as a social/cultural phenomena, but still think it's dumb as balls, and say so.