I had to read Of Mice and Men when I was in the eighth grade. I assume they assigned it to us because it was Great Literature that was also very short, but jesus god that was a traumatic experience.

Gatsby is definitely not for teenagers, but Catcher in the Rye is entirely suitable for 15 year olds. It's ONLY suitable for 15 year olds.

Drug smuggling is a bit more than running afoul of the rules. Sure, Nicky is non-violent, but she's also clearly demonstrated that she's so profoundly self-destructive that she doesn't care who she takes down with her. She ended up in max for a reason, and the fact that Luschek sold her out doesn't alter what she did…

Yeah…one of the many reasons why prisons are in isolated areas is that NO ONE wants to buy the land around them. The only plausible way MCC could be hoping to make money from real estate is if they closed the prison and sold the land outright. In which case, why the fuck would they be in the for-profit prison business…

I certainly don't have any shame about being from the south; it's actually something I take some pride in (even though I don't have a drawl), but I firmly draw the line at that horrible confederate flag. That's a symbol of slavery-loving racism, and our noble traditions of drinking while hunting and fishing and…

They fucked up hard, giving the cute nickname to the not at all cool-looking flag.

Southern Pride is bullshit founded in racism and not much else, and I say that a southerner. Sure, it's our heritage, but it's an incredibly shameful heritage that nobody should be proud of.

Sure, she's an idiot, but it still makes me uncomfortable to see her humiliated. I just don't care for that sort of thing. It doesn't help that I think the movie is terrible and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

OK, I really, really don't remember anything about Billy Madison, but no matter how heinous its crimes against comedy, that clip justifies its existence.

I didn't like the fact that only some of the actors got the memo about what Verhoeven was doing. Elizabeth Berkeley is clearly playing it straight while Kyle McLaughlin and Gina Gershon are barely able to keep a straight face half the time, and it's painful. I don't like watching someone get humiliated like that. It's…

You're right. "Monacon" isn't a word.

Eh, Kidman is probably among the best possible options. Grace Kelly was extremely distinctive, and there's really no one like her, either in looks or presence. Biopics about screen actors are extremely hard to pull off; even when the actor is doing a great job (like Michelle Williams playing Marilyn Monroe) it's…

…looks nothing like Grace Kelly. At all. No one does.

The producer's cut is on Hulu. I strongly recommend it; Shauna's arc is hilarious and adorable.

When I said the original Instagram photo, I just meant the original pic that's been re-posted. I'm assuming the picture that's all over the Internet is the original Instagram, as I don't actually have an Instagram account or a Twitter account. I still think that the shot of the dress in very heavily yellow light,…

Just looking at the original Instagram picture, I cannot for the life of me see how anyone would think it's white, and I've looked at it on both my phone and my computer. It's just too goddamn blue. Washed out compared to the actual color of the dress, but unmistakably blue.

Yeah, the white is what I just can't get at all. I'm also slightly perplexed by how many people in this thread seem to be experiencing this as a trippy optical illusion - I see no change of any kind, I just see an unambiguously blue dress with black trim that looks brownish because of the light.

No, it does not insult my intelligence. It's obnoxious when a filmmaker treats the audience as too stupid to understand the story, but Coppola doesn't exactly beat you over the head with the connections, and the story is complex enough to support the structure. Watching the two narratives in chronological order really…

….spoonfed??? Odd to see that from someone who prefers the straight chronological version. It's more about artistry in storytelling, but sure, I guess people who enjoy the complexity of the original cut are dimwitted.

The bouncing between the past and present is a big part of what makes Godfather 2 great. Each narrative is compelling on its own, but the interlocking structure gives both of them more depth and emotional power.