@Merve2:disqus I concur, but what about the irony of not giving a show that's primarily about second chances a second chance?

Well his understanding of modality is certainly childish. As if Dan Harmon not returning to community could even be thought to be necessary, bah!

Different strokes for different folks.

A little lower you were talking about the research pynchon did for GR, but since I can't reply to that, I'll hit you with this tidbit here:
http://oi40.tinypic.com/2z5…

Spot on, glad I took the time to read that.

We learn that Baz Luhrmann was just pretending to be a good director

To be fair, it went a lot better than that time they sponsored an episode of the Simpsons

Jimmy McNulty learns that Beadie is two timing him, Michael gets arrested mid-wedding for being the Scranton Strangler, after he's connected to a string of hobo strangulations.

I feel the same and also pretty conflicted because I think Ed Helms is probably a pretty decent guy and he's been good in other things.

I don't.

You're an assistant to the regional manager, sent by paper men, to collect a bill

Nailed it. While I'll reserve judgment for now, the whole thing, from the casting, the soundtrack, and the visuals (esp. the 3D) reeks of excess. Luhrmann likes spectacle, this much is known, but I just genuinely don't think he understands the core of the book. I mean I doubt he completely misunderstands it, because…

Athlead makes me think of Dobis PR or some other Tim and Eric company, where they just spout business buzzwords like synergy and have no understanding of what business actually does. "Sports! Uhh uhh marketing! Landing Clients, contracts, memos! Buyout!"

Nolan has denied the film criticizes the Occupy movement and insists that none of his Batman films are intended to be political: "I've had as many conversations with people who have seen the film the other way round. We throw a lot of things against the wall to see if it sticks. We put a lot of interesting questions…

Thank you! I was hoping someone would make this point. I could argue all day about how intent is one of the least important things in interpretation, but even granting it's value, was the Dark Knight really trying to say much more than the Avengers? I mean, the Avengers wasn't saying much, but it did sort of have the…

@bcfred:disqus yes, how would they have ever found him in Watertown, if Kenmore square or Harvard Square had been full of people?

I agree with @avclub-152cc7bd380aa7ddee2fb624d87228b1:disqus  in that in a situation like that, where everyone is freaked the fucked out and heavily armed, it's understandable something like that would happen. And technically the police have to right to shoot someone if they're a "fleeing felon" and a perceived…

I swear I've seen it defended on here a couple times, but maybe I've just confused it with one of his other shitshows. I can't really keep them straight.

Yeah, we don't stop living. We just shut down a whole city for a day and make everyone hide in their homes. And they thought they could disrupt our day to day lives.

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