I disagree with Zack Handlen's comments, as more distinction, more of the odd subplots, would have made it a different and less interesting book. A fair part of it is the mundanity that he mentions, but offices just don't have those crazy sub-things going on which you seem to be wishing for. I very much liked it the…

EvelKareebel, you're a lightweight. I made it through the entire thing twice. For I AM STRONG

I loved the music from "Better Off Dead" playing during the driving scene at the beginning. It's about damn time Cusack got back to his roots. He's a great comedy actor!

I loved Weakass's comment.

The movie is remembered a lot worse than it actually was, for some reason.

I think it's really good. I've gone on about it above, but it's certainly worth watching. I don't think there's too much that'd be missed in cultural translation, either, so you're set.

Is the film Pontypool set in the actual place Pontypool? Cos damn, that town is a shithole.

I thought it was brilliant, and I'm delighted to have discovered it thanks to this book club. The voice thing made me pay more attention to the book, if anything - seeing if the "we" was a person just using the plural, but it turns out it wasn't. Well, it gave me something to ponder on while I was reading it.

Completely agree, D, but I find the best way to enjoy this show is just to ignore the framing device of him talking to their kids. The more I go "just tell them the fucking story of how you met their damn mother, Saget!", the less I enjoy the show.

Don't mind the standalone nature of it, not all episodes have to be part of the arc and it's nice to get a break from time to time.

I went to a good bookstore in the small UK town of Cockermouth once.

"Porridge" never had an episode which was anything less than brilliant, so that'd be my favourite show ever. "Lost" is very good, especially for a show made by today's networks, but it's nowhere near the best show ever made.

Great art be damned. It's a sporadically brilliant TV show, nothing more. The awful second season wasn't "art"; and the way they had to do some rewriting to the show when they kept firing people for getting arrested wasn't terribly artistic either.

My humblest apologies, Elegant Victorian Lady.

I decided to watch the extras from the Human Giant season 1 DVD and then go to sleep. I really ought to watch this film before I dedicate any time to defending it.

I'm now going to post a bunch of times to get this higher than 400. And sign on with a load of other accounts and rate it so it goes up to A+. And then I'll probably be carried on the shoulders of the crowd through the streets as the man who stood up to you all.

The trailer looks absolutely awesome. Why bother with more of a plot? It's about angels vs. other angels - any more plot and you'd be all "oh, the exposition got in the way of the bad-assedness".

The comics are awesome, but I couldn't imagine reading the individual issues. The trades barely take any time at all to read - the art's not really worth dwelling on too much, and the regular use of double-splash-pages means a trade takes me as long as two issues of, say, "Invincible" (which is far and away Kirkman's…

Brule's the funniest thing about Tim and Eric by a million miles. The rest of it is "hey, this is what the stupidest bits of public access TV are like, hipsters!"

EVL, I'm suspecting you're not a real EVL. The Thames isn't in Wales! Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, another mystery solved.