GhaleonQ
"Reaganning" is (arguably) a spoof of conservative's hard-on for the man, which culminates (inarguably) in making an idiot appear to say what you want him to say using jelly beans - a trick Jack learned from Reagan's handlers.

"Atheist hero has trysts with three powerful atheists."

Yes (Reformed Calvinist beat me to it, but) not reading something has never stopped idiots from holding it as a sacred guide.

Is Dennis Miller funny now?

@ Kevin N
Pretty sure Rand insisted on her shit being adapted very faithfully & that the full John Galt speech must be included. The movie's box-office failure as a result of sticking to harsh, simplistic principles in spite of their unwieldiness in reality would be a pretty appropriate end for an opus on Objectivism.

Soooooooooo boring…
Every once in a while the vid should be horrific… lion cub plays with, then eats a bunny. (Otherwise this is like a skate video with only successful jumps.)

sarCCastro wins thread…

Anyone else think House of Leaves was worth it? I also did the one false start, but have yet to go back and give it a go again…

@TommyD
INFINITE JEST SPOILER ALERT (sorta)

I'll see it if it has Walter Junior popping out of someone's chest as Quatto…

Writer-centric review
Mostly agree this was mostly crap but "Les Jeunes de Paris" was downgraded for not being a challenge to write? One of the few entertaining parts of the night. (Also Miley looked good in it, which, it has become evident, is the only thing she's good at.)

This WAS bad (as was the facial cream bit) butyeah De Niro was worse because of expectations. I think that the cast is strong but that the writing is just aimed at such a broad audience that the topical stuff comes out to anyone with any pop-culture savvy as obvious/weak, as made apparent in the Charlie Sheen…

Bayer was also good in a couple small roles including one as an overcoached, phony pageant show contestant…

"my baby girl…" er I mean "Miley did a surprisingly good job." We see you, Billy Ray.

Personally I found her crying montage disturbing/moving as well. Thankfully her line readings from Star Wars were atrocious and stopped all suspension of disbelief. That said, shit lines rarely come out as anything other than shit…

@Felt Pelt - Well done. Reminds me of Zinn & Chomsky's defense of the Orcs in LOTR. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2…

I got a torrent of the audiobook to get a better picture of where conservative factions were coming from, as they seemed so removed from reality. Mostly the book just confirmed this removal.

The utopian society at the end is as fanciful as a fucking commie Smurf village… More likely it'd resemble that Tennessee town where firefighters watched a family's house burn to the ground because they didn't pay for the subscription, while they waited to spray down the house of the neighbor who did.

Doakes was NOT great - he was a puckering one-note player with boring subplots about his CIA past, But yeah at least there was someone that Dexter couldn't really kill that was on to him. But the writers took the easy out with Lila.

Dexter will be visited by a fatherly ghost that offers him advice.