No, the American movie it was was pretty good. Don't go expecting a Cameron Crowe movie, and you get a pretty neat little puzzle SF piece.

The best of Bad Cage, IMHO.

Is PB a gimmick? I ask because that comment could play either way. I sort of like it as a gimmick, though.

There goes @avclub-884c4beddd8c98bb3b016bdfcc1bcdf8:disqus again, with his negativity porn.

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"Contagion for the money set" comes to mind.

Is this the reason reviews exist? Because you'd have a hard time telling me that a movie called Martha Marcy May Marlene is something I'd rather watch over an evening of staying at home kicking Teletubbies.

You know, FULL SEQUENCE is now showing at a theatre near me, and I'm considering going to see it. When was the last time a film was showing that could genuinely be called a frontrunner for Most [Fill-in-the-Blank] of anything?

Huh…Shortcomings is the only Tomine book I've read, and I though it was, er, very…sensitive. I liked it. I should read Optic Nerve.

Just for fun, I visited a Mormon visitor's center in Kansas, and I can thus confirm that the missionary there stationed was indeed a lovely piece.

It's a great movie. I think the philosophical simplicity of some of it makes for a much better movie than book, but even still you have to admire Palahunik's book for having precipitated the movie.

@avclub-c54c561b74163f70a5572998e3955227:disqus , I thought the same thing re BEE and CP originally, but I've re-read a lot of Ellis's work and have decided that there's a lot more there than I originally thought. Last weekend, in fact, I re-read Imperial Bedrooms, which I first thought was a pretty boring and shitty…

There's something interesting about all of this: = $70 = 1 day's work for me

I think that The Big Short was pretty bad, actually. What happened was in large part due to technical mismanagement of risk, which is itself the story: a shoulda-been-science-news type of deal. Instead, Lewis made it into a good v. evil story, with clearly defined heroes and villains, which I think misses the point…

Back when I was looking around on Amazon to see whether I should read The Big Short or not (of course I did—Lewis's books are nothing if not addictive), I found a lot of people who were pissed about his disingenuousness re derivatives, seeing as how he'd written an article defending their place in the financial system…

"Asian ain't grayin'," you must mean.

It becomes more ambiguous as the book progresses, right? Like, the "Chase, Manhattan" sequence clearly can't be real, for plot reasons, while the Paul Allen stuff seems like it's something, conversely, that for plot reasons probably must have happened.

That makes sense, although I'd have to read the book again to be sure. As I was typing the passage last night, I too noticed that it didn't really support my thesis…

You know, having grown up with Korn and Creed permeating pop radios, I can stand autotune. Or what I guess I'm trying to say is that kitsch is better than rape.

That's a bad ending for the readers…