Yes, those are the two best ways of critiquing cinema.

Tariq Khalil!

@avclub-706d9ec5bdcd8d3d0f472127da6bf446:disqus Can you elaborate? As is stands that's a rather absurd statement.

Well double cray = cray cray, i.e. mad crazy. So triple cray is like saying me three or what have you, except better.

I think… that's the point?

Underworld (both the DeLillo novel and the vampire stuff, actually).
So far I really dig it.

I recall reading that too somewhere, and according to Wikipedia we're right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Inherent Vice is certainly a very different Pynchon, even quite dissimilar to The Crying of Lot 49, so what you're saying makes sense (even though I loved Inherent Vice). It'll be interesting to see if it was the first step towards an older, mellower Pynchon or if he goes back to his denser stuff.

Good ideas, kid! Fifteen hundred a week and have a treatment on my desk by Monday! *munches cheroot*

Sure, there are people in the film who could be psychopaths, but what does that mean? Does it allow us a greater understanding of evil? It is tempting to categorize all those who commit acts of violence as psychologically abnormal, but historically (and as you see in the film) it's clear that it isn’t the case. You…

Reagan for the quadrillion, man.

I would pay about six hundred dollars to see the Godfather with a young Dustin Hoffman.

redacted because I'm not sure I can respond coherently to this mess.

Also, Anwar Congo's reaction to the film is extraordinary. I think it clarifies the final moments, to the extent that it can.
http://www.theaustralian.co…
(near the bottom)

''It's more terrible and sublime an experience than film or cinema can contain, and yet it is so insistently, so emphatically a cinematic statement''

Holy shit, definitely The Act of Killing. I don't think anything could possibly hope to compete after seeing that. Berberian Sound Studio was also pretty rad.

Looks like its biggest sin will be having none of the original's humour. Undoubtedly the sidescrolling fight scene will be a wearisome cavalcade of pugilistic heroics, perhaps with some flagrantly applied speed ramping, rather than a desperate, ineptly (but brutally) violent struggle whose filming style belies its…

god bless you, yam‐eye

I think you're misreading. The “genre defining moment” comment is pretty clearly just an ex post facto reflection, and it doesn't seem as if he's claiming any con‐ or ex‐ temporary reaction other than having his mind fucking blown.
edit: also, music journalist?

Drugs
/neon