I seem to recall from IMDB that the movie's ending, as originally scripted, was Edward Norton's character re-shaving his head and becoming a neo-Nazi once again, thereby communicating a direct hate-begats-more-hate message.

Look Around You!
It's a glorious day for high-def releases of low budget budget goodness, between the Corman flicks (Forbidden World and Galaxy of Terror) and the 70s educational film parody series "Look Around You." See http://www.youtube.com/watc… for a good intro.

That's the one where all the teachers and the school board are evil, right? That's one of my favorites, one of the series' most effectively creepy eps. If I saw it as a kid, I might have 'been sick' the following week…

"the nature of good and evil"
According to the back of the book: "the infamous Wicked Witch of the West [is] a smart, prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil."

As has been said above, this really is the perfect Marx Brothers order. Excellent, Leonard! I started out watching A Day at the Races, thought it was great, then bought the 'first five movies' DVD set. I started watching that with some friends right at the beginning with The Coconuts, which did not go over well. A few…

Things you thought they would hate, but they liked
The Hudsucker Proxy and the Brothers Bloom went over surprisingly well with my family 'round the holiday times this past year. Also, The Lion in Winter made for surprisingly good viewing in a group of about 20 or so friends one evening back in college.

I can definitely relate to the original post. The problems of my last extended relationship, too, were not so much over differing opinions on any particular piece of art, but rather, the concept of art itself. IE, I generally approached culture as something to be analyzed, debated, and rewarded or snubbed based on…

When I watched that movie last fall, I had just gone through a break-up. It was my first major relationship, and it had lasted a few years. That scene at the beginning where he's just staring blankly ahead and smashing plates pretty much summed up how I felt. Whatever flaws the movie has, I think it speaks pretty…

My last year of high school, I met a girl (on a trip - not at camp), spent a year corresponding nearly daily with her, took a plane trip to see her, and barely ever spoke after it. Though neither of us ever explicitly talked about romance, I felt that sort of arc when I read Blankets. I did go to church camp as a…

I saw them preform "Packt Like Sardines" last year. They said they had done studio recordings of a few Radiohead songs, but had ultimately left them off the album they had planned to put them on.

"Toys in the Attic" also belongs to that great species of episodic narrative where, for a single installment, the creators purposely throw out the conventions and expectations you've grown comfortable with. See also: the "History" episode of Home Movies.

Titus, anyone?
That show built nearly all its episodes around single locations, from the opening with "Dad's Dead," where they all stand around in Papa Titus' house afraid to go into his bedroom and find out if he's alive or not, to the one on the plane where they get mistaken for being terrorists that probably got…

You're not alone in having missed Guitar Wolf, Rory, though it least you got another concert out of the deal. A friend of mine who was really into the band (and the movie Wild Zero) traveled a few hundred miles to see them in Chicago in late 2004 / early 2005 and asked me to go along, but I declined. It wasn't long…

I live in the rural Midwest. I was only able to see the Hurt Locker on the big screen because it went back to the theaters in December in the pre-Oscar buildup and I happened to be visiting some friends where it was playing 250 miles from my home. There are no theaters that showed it within a three hour radius of…

Agreed on van Trier. Dancer in the Dark is one of the movies I thought of when I read this headline. Relentlessly miserable does not equal "deep", particularly when its built around a dreadfully misguided representation of the US criminal justice system and a lead character we're supposed to see as martyred despite…

Plus that XBox 360 the soldiers are playing in the Hurt Locker. Totally anachronistic by like, a year… But really, I appreciate it when films strive for accuracy, and nitpicking over the specifics of uniforms may well be valid criticism of the movie. But it shouldn't eclipse discussion of whether or not the film's…

I found Preacher late in college, fell in love with it, and foisted it upon about a dozen people who pretty uniformly enthusiastic about it as well. Sure, it doesn't end as well as it begins (and for that matter, his run on Hellblazer stalls in the middle), but I still think its one of the best examples of hilarious…

To clarify a bit on the first "-": I mean that Bond and the Beatles were/are both creatures of pop culture, and at the time of Goldfinger, the "listening to Beatles without earmuffs" comment seemed like a friendly jab from one conservative-leaning pop figure at the kids these days. Both Bond and the Beatles turned out…

The James Bond quote is indeed from Goldfinger. It never much bothered for reasons mentioned by other posters on this thread. The more curious thing to me is, as a blatant establishment figure, how popular he became with the same young folk who liked the Beatles.

Back when I was re-watching the series (probably around the time Zack was doing the same, but before I was reading the AV Club), I was surprised to find The Field Where I Died had a bad reputation with fans. In contrast to how much I like but haphazardly I remember most of the mechanics of the show's mythology, that's…