All of these assessments are subjective, @avclub-54d29188fe85ae6a66b5ffaa043f799f:disqus. That said, @avclub-64d4f6639c0f1569f2b3736cdc947a69:disqus , I don't recall Chandler having written about stoned slackers, Vietnam vets, German nihilists, etc. Exactly how TBL is a distillation of his work, then, escapes me.

All of these assessments are subjective, @avclub-54d29188fe85ae6a66b5ffaa043f799f:disqus. That said, @avclub-64d4f6639c0f1569f2b3736cdc947a69:disqus , I don't recall Chandler having written about stoned slackers, Vietnam vets, German nihilists, etc. Exactly how TBL is a distillation of his work, then, escapes me.

Let me know if you need help with airfare.

Let me know if you need help with airfare.

I'll watch it again to see if there is indeed buttsex, but I can state for a fact that it is a beautifully shot, thematically complex film about male sexual anxiety. But, you know, if you wanted a film about Tom and Nicole getting jiggy, I can see why you'd have been disappointed by it.

I'll watch it again to see if there is indeed buttsex, but I can state for a fact that it is a beautifully shot, thematically complex film about male sexual anxiety. But, you know, if you wanted a film about Tom and Nicole getting jiggy, I can see why you'd have been disappointed by it.

Unforgiven isn't a character study, it's a deconstruction of the Western myth in which frontier justice and revenge narratives are shown to be angry, inhuman acts, not the stuff of legend. The Matrix is entertaining and quite influential but if it had been left off the list, I'd have been fine. The English Patient is…

Unforgiven isn't a character study, it's a deconstruction of the Western myth in which frontier justice and revenge narratives are shown to be angry, inhuman acts, not the stuff of legend. The Matrix is entertaining and quite influential but if it had been left off the list, I'd have been fine. The English Patient is…

Because EWS a very good film. And I don't think there's any anal play in it.

Because EWS a very good film. And I don't think there's any anal play in it.

They hold a lot of relevance beyond their gorgeousness. Given that one of the themes of the film is the tension between nature/beauty and nature/violence, the quiet shots of humans happily existing in a bucolic, violence-free setting would seem to be pretty important.

They hold a lot of relevance beyond their gorgeousness. Given that one of the themes of the film is the tension between nature/beauty and nature/violence, the quiet shots of humans happily existing in a bucolic, violence-free setting would seem to be pretty important.

I agree with @avclub-4ff25c60792fa2f9cb596e4666530aec:disqus . It has a lot of great ideas but is atrociously directed. Smith blows the "Jesus! Wow!" joke by having someone read it in a voiceover (think of how much better it would have been with the whole campaign revealed at once), the editing rythms are off (esp. in…

I agree with @avclub-4ff25c60792fa2f9cb596e4666530aec:disqus . It has a lot of great ideas but is atrociously directed. Smith blows the "Jesus! Wow!" joke by having someone read it in a voiceover (think of how much better it would have been with the whole campaign revealed at once), the editing rythms are off (esp. in…

This doesn't seem like the real ZMF to me. The real ZMF actually has a point in his posts, other than insulting people. Plus he hasn't used the words "own" or "ownage."

This doesn't seem like the real ZMF to me. The real ZMF actually has a point in his posts, other than insulting people. Plus he hasn't used the words "own" or "ownage."

It did give us one of the few funny things Jim Carrey ever did. Apparently (if I remember the story right) he mocked the speech to Liam Neeson at a party: "I've could've saved more! I coulda had a bake sale!"

It did give us one of the few funny things Jim Carrey ever did. Apparently (if I remember the story right) he mocked the speech to Liam Neeson at a party: "I've could've saved more! I coulda had a bake sale!"

@avclub-84ca205fe6bc691c41c3bfe5a2820a15:disqus , Lanzmann is a complete douchebag. He is contemptuous not only of people who disagree with him but people who have reasons for agreeing with him. It doesn't surprise me that he would say something like that… with the telos being Lanzmann's chance to make the ultimate…

@avclub-84ca205fe6bc691c41c3bfe5a2820a15:disqus , Lanzmann is a complete douchebag. He is contemptuous not only of people who disagree with him but people who have reasons for agreeing with him. It doesn't surprise me that he would say something like that… with the telos being Lanzmann's chance to make the ultimate…