River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho and Ledger in Brokeback Mountain - both giving their best acting jobs playing guys who are (mostly) gay, but are also conflicted and confused about their emotional state and sexuality in general. Especially Ledger.

My stepdad has a bootleg DVD of Come Back he showed to me, and that's all I really know/remember Karen Black from (I had no idea she was in The Great Gatsby until this came out). Hers and Sandy Dennis' are the best performances in the movie.

"Take all you want, I seem to have completely lost control." Hilarious reading.

Pumped to watch this; David Tennant is one of the best UK actors, especially after watching him in Hamlet. Guy can play anyone.

To be honest, I don't think Jack has been the same since the White Stripes. The Raconteurs, etc. aren't bad bands but they just don't have the fucking magic or whatever.

They also deserve some extra kudos as the first three-dimensional gay couple on television, although I'm not sure there have been a lot that have followed them.

Season 3 was the point where I started to like Brenda more than Nate.

Cash's Christianity could be corny (he directed a movie about Christ in the 70s himself), but in playing to felons to alleviate them and playing songs like "Dark As A Dungeon" and "The Ballad of Ira Hayes", he tried to be a better Christian than a lot of people I can think of.

"I love to watch you talk" - weird and kind of romantic at once.

So was Edgar Allen Poe, but those writers lived over a hundred years ago; I think people hate Card more because he's somehow a bigot in a time when the world is advanced enough for that to be viewed with disgust.

Saying "its not like anything on tv" is a cliche but its AV Club, I'm intrigued.

Great analysis, RPM. Lisa is a person whose genuine tragedy is that she fell in love with someone who was too scared of hurting others to flatly turn her down, and also never learned the difference between accepting the ones you love for their flaws and just settling for the one who will take you. Fucking Nate.

This is obvious, I suppose, but Nate is Michael, right?

Yeah, the lab fight saved the plot for me. I'm a sucker for slapstick physical stuff.

Drew Barrymore and Tim Roth both get on my nerves in this movie, but I remember still liking it. The scene where Hawn and Allen dance, sharing a history good and bad, really is great. 

Just read the full text of Paradise Lost after years of just reading excerpts in classes, plus Grant Hart. Looking forward to checking this out - I love most of Husker Du's songs, but Hart is such an idiosyncratic, smart songwriter - Mould is great of course, but Hart could write something as happy and weird like…

Paper Doll is pretty irritating, same annoying hook over and over.

The whole things on YouTube for free, and in hi-def! Just watched it.

"We're Breaking Up" was just too power ballady, it was kind of gross (especially considering that Against Me! had sung for so long about not being that kind of band).

Glad its coming out on DVD, its an adaptation made better by the gritty, realistic 60s cinema feeling: you really feel like these are twelve year olds trapped on an island. The choir singing fading in as the island burns is a nice black ending too. The 90s remake is apparently terrible.