This feature is like mourn porn. I agree, the Pythons are going to be tough.

Even just reading this piece made me choke up a little. What is wrong with me? I used to pride myself on being aloof. Roger Ebert's death really fucked me up in a way I couldn't have anticipated. I miss that guy a lot. And now, thinking about David Bowie— I'm a fan, but he has not been an omnipresence in my musical…

Good points, especially on the lack of substantial discourse surrounding this. It's the type of "debate" typically embraced by stoners. I would like to agree with you and say that Shia is the archetypal gross kid embracing his grossness; but just this morning someone linked me to a poem written by Kristen Stewart that…

I had to Google Even Stevens to know what it was— this is all too meta for me

I don't know— the fact that what he did is being categorized as a "silly celebrity fuck-up" puts him behind the eight ball to begin with; who's to say he didn't entertain these notions prior to the plagiarism? The facts make it difficult to discern. For example, I sort of hate Shia LaBeouf. I think he's a wormy little…

At this point, I don't even know. The only thing I can say is, at least he's committing to this…whatever it is.

No, you should check it out. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that I have been away from action movies for too long to know what's "good" from a general cultural standpoint— I looked on Rotten Tomatoes and it got a 78%, so what do I know. For what it's worth, I found Dredd's visual style excruciating and the…

I cannot comment on your facts, as there are a great many, but I will say this: I watched Dredd on Netflix out of bored curiosity. It was horrible.

381x, minimum

I agree it isn't as whimsical as their other work, but they are giving religion quite a skewering in this one, and it feels like the right balance to me— the episodic nature of Holy Grail really allows for a more playful presentation.

As many times as I've seen it, I've never once taken away an interpretation greater than "this scene is batshit insane." Maybe I should have…? I just feel like it's too ridiculous a scene to be doing double duty as both comedy and thematic material. You may be right, but I feel like it was just a diversion of inspired…

Yeah. I mean it's a song that's put together well— you can hate it for ideological reasons, but it worms on in there anyway.

I feel like the gratuitous length is one of the things that works for it— at least that first time. It commits, which is something.

I feel like the Family Guy "Chicken Fight" sequences are the closest analogue. They don't get the same disbelieving laughs in my experience— that really only happens the first time— but those scenes are certainly committed to going the distance.

This scene might be the hardest I've ever laughed during a movie. The other two times I can recall laughing almost as hard: 1) During the brawl in "They Live" 2) The nudity fight/chase in "Borat"

I always not-so-secretly enjoyed this album. It's not as good these days due to sheer overexposure and a better knowledge of what all's out there to listen to, but in high school, when the heaviest stuff I listened to at the time was probably Pearl Jam, I thought the black album was pretty epic shit.

Yeah, Dave's band— I honestly don't know any of their names anymore— could outplay anyone in Metallica.

The bluegrass stuff is pretty cool, but it also exposes a lot of the music's shortcomings— there's a monotonous quality to it that's hard to digest after a couple of listens.

Well……it did.

I'm curious what Oswald Cobblepot has to say on the matter.