Ah, but the haughty, intelligent, worldly, talented, striking girl that suddenly decides to pay attention to you? Of course I fell for Winslet. ;)

Or it it all the AVClubbers that got it for New Cult Canon?

Do you really think they come across as 'unlikeable', Zack? As a viewer I liked and sympathized with them quite a lot. As a classmate of theirs, I suppose I would have looked at them oddly, but the film's perspective give you more background on who they are.

Everyone keeps calling MtF the most disgusting movie, but I can't get a grasp on if that's a compliment or not. I hope so, because I love it to death.

I'm with Dan that this is Jackson's best work. The Frightener's is horrifically underrated, but it's also severely flawed (in my opinion). There's a much better film in there somewhere, and I've always wondered just how much Hollywood was responsible for messing that up.

That's why God created Cable Television
When I'm in the mood you describe, Nathan, I just turn on the good ole boob tube. Clearly we've all got our own styles and preferences, but I *hate* sitting down and sitting through mediocre movies. I think I hold them to a higher standard that I do a bit of television…

One friend of mine read Angels and Demons, another read Da Vinci Code. Both separately complained to me that the endings were telegraphed in the first half of the book. If nothing else, that sure ruins a 'thriller'.

Yay! Let's argue and confuse people about what to listen to next!

What about it makes it *not* seem like 'You have such wonderful things left to discover!', Noel? Is it just in the way people phrase it? Or do you think its inherent in the chronology of the albums themselves? For someone who's just discovered an artist, isn't the back catalog just as novel and wonderful as what's to…

Well, as mentioned above, neither Hunky Dory nor Station to Station are glam. So they might be a way to introduce people to Bowie (although I would still disagree) but they wouldn't be much a gateway into glam…

Did you really just discard 'Sound and Vision' and 'Be my Wife' in the same breath? Those are prime-cut Bowie.

There are songs for a Jim Steinman-penned batman musical? Internets don't fail me now…..

What, we're not allowed to enjoy some crazed passion mixed with a bit of scenery chewing?

I think one of the reasons that the press (and fans) jump on beautiful people who are starting to look pudgy is that…..it's kinda part of their job to look good. If you were rewarded with millions of dollars for being beautiful on the screen, it's expected that you will use those dollars and the extra free time to eat…

Wait. what just happened to my post about supersize me?

Super-size me? I'm not sure what can be learned about docs from that…..it's amusing and all, but its not a high-caliber documentary.

I don't have a ton of logic to back it up, Phel, but I'm of the opinion that Nature Documentaries is a category separate from the general form of docs we're discussing. I love well-made nature docs (go attenborough!) but something about them seems different. I don't know if it's that we're discussing non-humans, or if…

I went in to LFoDH just expecting a silly summer action flick, but the thing couldn't even deliver on that. It's a *huge* budget movie. Why did they then pay some high school kid to reedit it? The re-edit from R to PG-13 was more distracting than anything else in the film. Blatant overdubs, awkward cutaways…it looked…

I've never managed to see the Trial all the way through because I had to take my date to the hospital halfway through it when I went to see it at the theater.

OtP, I would totally buy that album if I found it in a bin at the Princeton Record Exchange. Of course, I'd probably listen to it once and then wonder why I was dumb enough to buy it, but….