There is some real scientific evidence that we interact differently with "real" books, though, and in fact retain better when you have the actual physical book.

THe comments I left earlier don't seem to be showing, but I am referring to when the nerds set up surveillance cameras in the sorority house and then proceed to sell nudes of the women they just spied on. It's played as a "They get their comeuppance" thing, but I hope you can see why that comes out as really, really…

Thanks - I couldn't remember the name tho I remembered that they tried to get around that they knew that the teens were too self aware… but anyway, it wasn't something that held my attention then— I think my sister and I were watching it and we sort of groaned.

The comment I posted didnt' go through evidently, but the nerds take topless photos of the women in the sorority house and sell them. Photos that were taken with a surveillance camera that they did not consent to. Metaphorically that's a rape, and that is why I describe it as almost-rape above. It's creepy, and the…

There are a couple of scenes I was thinking of — one is where the Nerds set up the whole surveillance camera thing in the sorority house — that's some creepy-ass shit right there. I know it's a comedy, and as a 17-year-old I thought it was funny. Then I grew up and realized how deeply disturbing that kind of thing is.…

Well, there's what has broad appeal in the sense you mean and how we define "generations" and then how we look at culture as a whole…

A lot of docs have one, actually. :-) Though I suppose it wold look more like a three-dimensional surface…

You bring up something really interesting (and worthwhile) — so much of what we see as "generation defining" is for white people, generally.

Apropos of @avclub-6ceed97c551abb399b4fbe5432af9197:disqus — BMI is at best crude. A better measure is a combination of:

Wanna bet that Aronofsky's Jewishness has something to do with it?

Well, yes and no. He's part of the Torah but strictly speaking Jews hadn't been invented yet…

As @avclub-d6a67a3808af66a2c60a8d8cb41468db:disqus says, there wouldn't be any grounds to sue, really, since Popoff was a public figure anyway and the film is a work of fiction. It would be like Woodward and Bernstein trying to sue the makers of House of Cards or any other post-Nixon political thriller.

Is he pissed off that they lifted stuff from the book then? Seems a bit peevish of him, given that this film is in many ways all about the stuff he believes in. (The speech from the sheriff cold have come straight from him).

I probably forgot it — I honestly did not remember any cuts back to the town — maybe it wasn't in some cuts? (I saw the movie on cable rather than in a theater, and it mightn't even have been HBO or the like).

I actually like the very end. That line: "Are you in trouble?" Martin: "For the first time ever, no."

Interesting you bring that up. When there were fewer channels available such domination was possible — the comment below about CBS is interesting that way, because by the 80s CBS was knows as a network with an older audience, i.e. advertising death. They really, really tried to get "hipper" — landing Letterman was…

I feel like the only person in America who really didn't like that show much. I remember watching the first episode and thinking, "This is just interminable."

I'd say yes and no to this. (Speaking as a het man). The spontaneous
road trips are probably impossible for functioning adults with real jobs
and such. I've had friends who I bonded with after school ( primary,
junior high, high school and college — I was in different schools/peer
groups for each of these) was over —…

It wasn't his eardrums. It was his semicircular canals in the inner ear. Years of spinning and jumping eventually damaged them. You need those things to balance at all. Without them functioning properly you see the world as the deck of a sailing ship— it's like the whole thing spins and tilts all the time.

The faces do look like the ones you get in roller coasters and g-force training in the Air Force / NASA (when they whip you around and basically crush you for a few minutes). Since I am a physics major, (I love saying that :-) ) Let's do a little math: