I just…I just really don't get it. In response to the first paragraph. Do we *really* need any more art (not just music, books and film too) reflecting on the nature of fame/celebrity? Is there really anything left to observe/say? Referring specifically, again, to the first paragraph-the monstrous side of celebrity,…

I cannot make a substantive reply without spoiling. But you raise a valid point. No spoilers, not saying you're right or wrong, just good point.

Whatever happened to Omri Katz? I loved him in this and Eerie, Indiana.

These books are a guilty pleasure. Sorry. And to a lesser extent Goosebumps. They're just comfort books. Light and they take me back.

This is great. I'm gonna have to come up with a spoiler username.

Basically. It didn't ruin my day and left me mildly entertained.

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.

Alec Baldwin man

Hey! I actually enjoyed Dark Shadows! I needed a matinee to piss away a few hours. Did its job and left me in a good mood. Not every movie needs to be wildly ambitious…or good.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoyed Dark Shadows. Had a big family get-together type thing around Memorial Day last year, my dad and I snuck away to see a movie and picked this one. Burton frustrates me a lot recently, but his movies are always a fun way to pass the time that I'll continue to see them. I dunno,…

Damn you I wanted to be the smartass who said Johnny Depp is going to be Beetlejuice.

Bet he recasts Beetlejuice. Johnny Depp, natch.

I'd love to see some early Walt moments. Maybe Saul cutting Walt in a grocery store line and Walt being too much of a pushover to say anything. Maybe seeing Skinny Pete arrested and Jesse driving him to Saul's office.

All about the biopics, eh? Yesterday it was Ed Wood. I love this movie also. Seen it at least a dozen times. Some reason I like movies about schlubs.

Manos: The Hands of Fate is pretty abominable. It's so bad that, even watching the MST3K episode of it wasn't enough: I had to turn it off.

That's the show with Candlejack, ri

This is my favorite movie, and I don't know how to describe why it makes me so happy. It's just one of my comfort movies. I dunno, I guess as someone who also loves something and is compelled to create (and is not very good) I identify strongly.

@avclub-6ee934260c80f2e2f9098dcd3e44c032:disqus Don't forget Nabokov! Borges, motherfucking Tolstoy didn't win. No doubt the writers who win are superb (most anyway…), but the exclusion of so many other equally or even more scrumtrulescent writers means I take it marginally more seriously than the Oscars.

Fair enough. I enjoyed what I've read so I'll read a couple more.

I think I would have to go with Pynchon just for sheer inventiveness. Not that McCarthy and Roth aren't brilliant (although I think the latter has watered down his legacy a bit by dropping a lot of less than stellar stuff), but there really is no writer like Pynchon.