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It's a puzzler. It's definitely worth seeing and there are some extremely powerful moments but I definitely left the screening thinking, "What the fuck?"

so true. Hopefully it's a small part. Look for my F review of the DTV film 50 did with Val Kilmer and Sharon Stone in the next DVD section.

Thanks, Floyd. It was great to see so many AV Club readers/commenters in one place.

Soderbergh's vision for the film sounded a lot like the recent baseball drama "Sugar", which was terrific and incredibly understated and naturalistic and made about five dollars. I suspect this new version will be much more commercial and much less interesting.

I, on the other hand, think it stinks that Jay Sherman is getting quoted so often this week.

Thanks, OhNoNotAgain. I also devoted my entire Sunday to writing a 2100 word piece on Jimmie Rodgers that still doesn't have as many comments as this despite posting two days ago.

I actually like Davies. I both find him annoying and intriguing.

So that's why he was so jolly when he met the Carters. Another reason to like the man.

You make some interesting points. It is, perhaps a cliche that mental hospitals are clearinghouses for malcontents and nonconformists but it's also one with a fair amount of truth in it, especially where kids and teenagers are concerned. A lot of seriously disturbed, very mentally ill people are in psychiatric

I do not know where the weird crease in my forehead came from. I tend to have violent collisions with stationary objects and fall down a lot, almost always while sober, oddly enough. Me not so good with the hand-eye coordination. As I write in the book I have a special lack of grace.

Scott, Keith and I are all 6'2. Together, we look like 60 percent of the starting line-up of the world's oldest, shittiest college basketball team.

I'm working on a Solaris MYOF entry today. At one point I was totally going to call out Soderbergh for stealing my bald Jewish guy with glasses look years before I adopted it myself.

Thanks guys. I was a little reluctant to read the comments on this one but now I'm filled with a strange sensation I believe you humans call "happiness".

I would like everyone to know that I am in no way playing favorites. Before he was a commenter Karatloz are I were old army buddies. Shit, we even fought in the war together? Which one? Try all of them. We were like Wolverine and his brother Sabertooth Man or whatever his name is.

actually, that's maybe a little more dead-on then you might imagine. I had to change almost all the names so I decided to give the psychiatrist the same name as Peter Sellers' zany shrink character from "What's New Pussycat", which was written by a young Woody Allen.

Thanks, Scott. As I tell the kids I sell PCP, the first taste is free, then you gotta pay.

I'm actually translucent.

You rose to the occasion. Huzzah.

I suspect part of the reason Curry's career never took off is because of his name. It's like when I watched wrestling as a kid and The Screaming Sheik or Professor Punishment squared off against some guy named Brad Johnson or Richard Smith. Gee, which of these wrestlers is more likely to make an impression on fans?