At some point the dark web runs out. With Kinja, you can always “Load more comments”.

People rag on Death Proof for being mostly dialogue until the climactic chase. First, I’m not sure why people were surprised a Tarantino movie would be overflowing with dialogue. And Secondly, I think it worked wonderfully. If it was all constant action I think people would be pretty exhausted after only a short…

I’m not sure if it qualifies as “Grindhouse”, but I’ll continually go to bat for Cinemax’ Banshee. That show is preposterous in all the best ways - the excessive violence, exploitative use of nudity, and winking humor at the batshitness of all of it. The acting by and large is awful, but the premise would not be out…

There’s a distinction?

It is easy to romanticize sports and chalk up nebulous terms like “atmosphere” and “heart” to bad sportswriting tendencies, but one of the casters, maybe Fowler, said (and was promptly agreed with) that, without that crowd, Del Po might’ve even retired from that match. I have to imagine they were consistently lifting…

Yeah I’m hoping this year’s Aussie final flipped some switch in him where he no longer prematurely enters into a defeatist attitude but instead battles back.

Thanks! Now my pedantic posts can be seen by all.

No worries! Any chance I can get ungreyed while you’re down here with the commoners?

...and when their man went down two sets to zero...

Nah no worries, I hear ya. I’m a frequent Deadspin reader as well, not so much commenter, so I’d bristle at the notion that AV Club’s commentariat is inherently brighter or whatever - that’s an unfair assumption all around.

To have gotten to T2's year in the chronology of the “History of Violence” feature, and not have it be the winner, much less discuss it, would have been bizarre, though.

Are there people who think T2 was not cutting edge for action cinema?

If you can get over the word “French” in the title, The French Connection is a cool movie!

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Infinite Jest vibes, a little bit.

...despite being uptempo it still sounds like someone who just rolled out of bed and is trying to get his shit together.

I guess lots of buldingsroman type stuff, be it literary (Huck Finn) or cinematic (Inside Out, Ghost World), or both (The Body/Stand By Me). Any time kids have realizations about themselves or the world they live in, and can’t return to the innocence they’d just moments earlier occupied, is always going to be…

As good a place as any to mention that while I try and make myself cultured in various areas of art and media, I still probably have Dirty Work in my five favorite comedies. I can read all the Proust and Russian literature I like, go to the opera, learn embroidery - doesn’t matter - that movie destroys me.

I saw this the other day and mostly enjoyed it. Alex and Ignatiy I think get to the heart of it - it’s not Soderbergh’s best, nor is it must-see, but nonetheless it’s made by a master craftsman with a talented, game cast and is never less than fun, if a bit long (90-100 mins would’ve been the sweet spot vs. 2 hours).

Indeed. It went from an elegant, easy to navigate layout to some kind of stacked, cheap blog format. Ugh.