The sad part is that isn't even that rare outside of the rural south. All you have to do is go to a famous tourist trap cheesesteak spot to see that sign here in Philly.

I think the point was more "even the best Phillip K. Dick adaptation ever isn't faithful to his work" than dissing Blade Runner.

Blade Runner is amazing, but the article is definitely correct in saying that it doesn't capture the tone of Dick's novel. It smartly jettisons a lot of of the novel to give its own more cinematic take on the material. Dick was actually a highly positive of the early cut he saw before he died, and praised it for…

Great list! A few others I love that I'd toss in there too, with some meandering commentary:

Agreed, Spiderman 3 might be a dire mess, but at leas its an overstuffed, overreaching mess that's fitfully entertaining. I'll take a big ole mess like SM3 over a snoozefest like ASM1 any day.

I won't say it stacks up against The Monitor, but Airing is a really incredible album too that hooked me in the moment I heard it. Whenever the play songs from it live (beyond just Titus the song) they go over really, really well.

Me too, I saw it before The State or Wet Hot Ameican Summer, and for me it remains the gold standard of their style of humor.

In perfect world, Blood Sister would've been made into one of the trailers that played in the middle of Grindhouse.

I appreciated that a lot about it too, even if it was tough to discover that the man behind so much sensitive, morally affirming work could be just as much (or more) of a jerk than the rest of us. Not that that should have come as s shock to me, but it did.

Wait, since when did Almost Famous become hated? That movie is so much fun! Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bang's for gods sake.

Oh man, I love that episode! Sinbad is so great and I love Frank negotiating with Bon Jovi's manager.

It's not like I can objectively state that The Black Album doesn't have "heavy" songs, it's just that they're turgid and terribly written, and feature James Hetfield's godawful vocals. Also, the more slick and poppy their songs, the more Lars' drumming went from charmingly sloppy like on the first few records to just…

I lost track of Orphan Black midway through Season 2 and still haven't caught up, but damn I'm happy to see her finally getting that nod.

I came here expecting to dig through a bunch of pages to get to the Americans talk. As bummed as I am that the show is consistently shafted by the Emmys, I'm glad its got a big enough fan support to be the first topic of discussion in the Emmy nominations thread. TUSK!

I can't echo what everyone else is saying enough, stick with it and a promise the Martha storyline will pay immense dividends.

We used to watch that in AP Psych in High School. There was a running joke throughout the year that of course this bizarre, vampiric guy ran such a gruesome experiment. I'll never forget the way he introduces the episodes by saying "Hi, I'm Phillip Zimbardo." I can't express his cadence by typing it, but suffice to…

Have you listened to Trace Mountains, that singer's solo project? His solo version of "I Feel Extra Natural" is even better I think.

I did it in a three week stretch after finishing a semester of college and before starting a job that summer where I did literally nothing but read that book during the day. It was an incredible experience. I'm rereading it right now, and can't match even a fraction of that pace around my work schedule, but it's been…

If there's one thing that those episodes prove it's that the songs from Little Shop of Horrors hold up. I'm not even a musical fan at all but those songs are great and get stuck in my head whenever Ben and Scott sing them.

It's not like you can't shoot a period piece in a distinct modern style, or on digital, and be successful. Steven Soderbergh, who people mention down thread as another director who really understands shooting to digital video, does that so we'll on The Knick.