As a librarian, I've noticed that Into the Wild is popular with young adults and it is occasionally taught in school. Thoughts? Are teachers using it as a cautionary tale or are they presenting it as a "boy wilderness" book? Or do they just want kids to learn words like "contumacious" (which does sound like an SAT…

"easily accessible escape route"
Although that little detail depresses the hell out of me, the gauging station really should have been mentioned in the movie.

AHHHHHH!!!
So happy!

Things I remember from the trailer…
1.South Central Los AnGELeeees

Three words: "Wild Honey Pie".

The green dress
Minor (shallow) note, but was anyone else disappointed by the green dress? It's a credit to McEwan's writing that I got excited about seeing this dress onscreen, but it just didn't look right to me.

Congratulations!
Pretty name BTW.

Liked the Marvin Cobain bit
And the couch gag was great.

Can I poison him instead?

I'm a big fan of musicals so I got the soundtrack the day it came out. (I'm in Wisconsin so I could actually go see it right away.) I was so excited because of all the hype (cover of Newsweek, Pulitzer Prize. It was one of the most disappointing moments of my life. I was a 18 year old from Wisconsin and even I could…

Ratatouille
Ratatouille didn't make the master list? You guys can usually be counted on to show Pixar and Brad Bird some well deserved love. However, if you're still pissed about Cars, I can't really blame you.

Small point…
I love that Marge apparently has a big problem with the seemingly harmless Sarah Wiggum. I guess she could be really awful, but all I really know about her is that she's turned on by "Truly Tasteless Jokes" and she sometimes dials the phone for her husband, which are pretty inoffensive quirks for a…

Well, I would argue that Janusz Kaminski knows his shit as well, and would be able to get a similar look for Schindler's List if the technology was available.

Weakness
I don't know. I think Christensen's weakness sort of works in the SW prequels. I mean, he has to be a weak, easily manipulated jerk in order to turn to the dark side. I'm still not willing to call it a great performance though. They really needed to bring in Peter Sarsgaard to yell at him for about 20…

I thought they were going to do that with Schindler's List but Spielberg objected because shooting in color would mess up the look of the black and white. It had something with the color removal process. The blank and white in The Man Who Wasn't There looked fine to me, so maybe the process has improved over the…

Let me get this straight…..
You seem to be implying that even though this movie is based on an Upton Sinclair book it DOESN'T feel like someone is repeatedly hitting you over the head with a hammer? Is that possible?

Children of Men wasn't a bad book. I liked the extra details about The Omegas and the life-like children dolls still creep me out. A faithful adaptation would have resulted in a bad movie though.

I agree with The Elderly. I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic, if only because I've never heard of anyone NOT liking Ruth Gordon. Heronimous is the only exception, unless he/she was being sarcastic.

C'mon, the Orlando bit in The Italian Bob was priceless.

Exile in Guyville
I'm surprised that that one hasn't come up yet. My brother gave it to me when I was fifteen. Prior to that I had been a pop/show tunes girl. It was something completely new for me. It was the first album I owned that I thought was smart. I was used to pop lyrics, which are pretty light on Salome…