I read the Rolling Stone stuff but not the book — I'll definitely check it out.

I yelled out loud and was tempted to hurl the book across the room when I first finished it cause there there was so much still hanging. Rereadings have cleared up various things and made it, in fact, ever more enjoyable, but the space between the end and beginning still defies complete understanding.

OK, I'll check it out. Probably wait for DVD though.

I don't want a shirt, but they were fuckin great.

If you just want to read it, a PDF is out there via torrent, etc.

That sounds kind of awful… based on this review I can't understand the A grades. Is it funny, entertaining, insightful? Granted, I'm not familiar with what "a Whit Stillman movie" is all about, but this hasn't made it any clearer.

Yeah, that looks too crude for RP. Grenadier maybe.

Terry Gilliam and the Monty Python guys generally are good at filth and grit. That's the one thing I liked about Jabberwocky: really gives the feel of being submerged in mud and dung.

Way late, but I'm going to go ahead and boast of seeing this flick on the big screen, in a packed house, with Jackson himself introducing. According to him, years later the soundstage ceiling was still stained with fake blood.

It came to mind as the first thing on TV that made me feel, Wow there's a bigger story here, but you're right that it fell apart instead of coming together in a proper finale.

X-Files seems like a noteworthy predecessor of the "mythology" style.