The story is that he actually even had writers from the show write his dissertation for him.

Trust me, there is no "good" version.

Eh, it was okay. I thought it was an interesting concept even if it was't executed nearly as well as it could have been. But yeah, you haven't seen nearly enough if it's on your "worst ever" list. And if I seem defensive over my taste, you seem defensive over your ignorance.

I did! I had HBO in my dorm room and no social life!

If it was one of the worst movies you've ever seen, you haven't seen many movies.

YOU'RE WORSE THAN A THOUSAND SHIA LABEOUFS!

I already live in a universe where Ed Sheeran doesn't exist. Seriously, I've never heard of the guy.

What you have made abundantly clear is that while you can validly criticize Israel, everyone else who does so is a reactionary and/or racist idiot. How nice for you. I'm glad you've made a happy little world (albeit paranoid and hateful) for yourself where you can rule.

Yes, it is what you said. You know, for someone who seems to be very fond of telling others they have no idea what they're talking about, you may want to refrain from the name calling and labeling for a minute and think about what it is that you yourself actually knows.

Yep, the only reason to be critical of Israel is because of a reactionary response to Republicans. Couldn't have a thing to do with their policies, nope, not at all. We're also just a bunch of strawmen that "openly support everything Palestinian." Boy, you sure have us pegged.

I have my dad's Parris Island yearbook from '67 and it's funny/disturbing how many things from the film are in there, from the "This Is My Rifle" speech to a photo of a guy on the shooting range that I swear to Christ must have been the inspiration for Pvt. Pyle.

Well, as I mentioned, my dad wasn't a critic, he was a Marine who fought at Hue City. You know, the battle the film was portraying. It was pretty damn famous, you might want to look it up. So forgive me if I defer to his first-hand knowledge as opposed to some film reels you saw. According to him, the buildings were…

That doesn't sound like much fun for either party.

My dad had a funny story about a time when a fire base he was at got shelled. A building got hit and went up in flames, and one soldier tried to charge in. It took three guys to hold him down. The guy started screaming and crying. Turns out he had a whole duffle bag full of weed stashed away in there, almost got…

One thing Platoon apparently got right was showing that the terror was counterbalanced the annoyances and restless boredom - bugs and mosquitoes, constant rain, endless walking through the jungle, digging positions, cleaning latrines, and all the other things that made up the vast majority of a soldier's time there.

My dad said the same. He had to leave the theater during the final scene when they were overrun. It had happened to him and he was one of the few guys who made it through the night alive and relatively uninjured.
He was also at Parris Island in 1967 and was shocked by how much Full Metal Jacket got right during that…

It's pronounced "Framf" so the spelling doesn't matter anyway.

Somehow, Battle Royale with office workers instead of high schoolers doesn't seem like a great idea.

Holy shit, that's rad. I'm unfamiliar with Freakwave, but I really loved McCarthy's covers for Shade The Changing Man when I was a teenager, Ronan Gosh and Skin, too.

If they aren't Freezoners any more, that's good to know. It always irked me that the two most prominent critics still believed in the "tech," not to mention that it added even a tiny bit of possible credibility to the church's claim that they just wanted to take over.