Even the marketing for this thing was lazy.  The tag on the movie posters that were plastered all over my local BART station was, "Classic tale. New twist."  That's like using "Robots fight" as the tagline for a Transformers movie.

@avclub-8c1bbcea199457b63dc39f7a024591f1:disqus , at least we can blame Rob Schneider on the Japanese.

The Aesthetics of Rock is simultaneously hilarious and unbearable, but one of the the best things about it is that Meltzer transcribes the lyrics to Surfin' Bird, which are sublimely dumb.  It kind of destroys Theroux's point about how stupid rock lyrics are.

Second place.  I guess that counts for something.

Nothing livens up a party like a three-hour-long movie about Hitler in his bunker.

Hitler! I win!

He was on the wrong side of issues even before he became veep.  He claimed that we were underestimating the Soviet threat just as the state was in the process of collapsing, and, of course, was on the wrong side of GHW Bush's decision not to go in to Baghdad during the first Gulf War.

The man who he shot in the face publicly apologized to Cheney for causing all of the trouble he did by getting shot in the face. If that happened to me, I think I might become a sociopath too.

I don't believe you.

Stupid, puerile, and fun.

@Big_Knife:disqus , I wait until I get the plane to a nice cruising altitude.

Dammit!

See how he uses a spanner!

Saucy underpants?  Gross!

They're like the Beatles of music!

I hope so.  Those buildings with the holes in the middle seem like a bigger obstruction to the views of the water than traditional skyscrapers would.  And the variety of sizes and shapes make it look like one of those weirdly designed strip malls where the facades are all at crazy angles.

You'd better have brought enough beer.

Again, I don't have a problem with them doing a new development from a long abandoned building, but they certainly could have picked a plan that was less of an eyesore.  That is the sum total of my point.

I'm sure that they look great inside, but from the street, this looks like shit.  Way to fuck up a skyline.

I get that, but this novel is nothing but that dream logic, and my sense is that much is being lost in translation. And even trying to follow that logic leads me to nothing. I don't feel anything for the narrator (and there are no other characters) and the language is too clunky and incoherent to make me feel like…