Which adjective do you find least annoying; Kubrickian or Kubrickesque?

I can’t really read Heinlein anymore because his multi page political rants get old.

How did this rumor get started? Verifiably false.

Does it, or does it just give Ellis an excuse to go on random tangents about stuff he likes and dress it up as character-building? Always seemed like a cop out to me.

Gertrude Stein laughs at Bret Easton Ellis.

I gave my copy of American Psycho away to the ex of mine. After we broke up I came by her house to collect some stuff I had let her borrow. She had American Psycho in the stack and I was like “no, I gave you that, I really don’t want it back.”

If you’re watching it as straight-up sci fi/action, then it’s pretty campy. Once you catch on to what it’s doing that element makes the satire all the more effective. The ending with Van Dien, Richards and NPH walking happily and triumphantly off with arms around each other is so absurdly cheesy.

People should be naked is a much more fun grumpy old man rant to have to read over and over than Troopers’ “everything used to be great when I was allowed to hit kids” rants.

Pretty much ALL Comics are like that though. The characters have been around so long that purely by the law of averages there’s highs and lows.

It’s a science fiction classic, but it’s also a pulpy, silly love letter to Heinlein’s weird brand of fascism.

“Never mind the movie whitewashing an entire cast of South American characters...”

Puppet Masters is fun because he keeps harping on how natural nudity is. After the third or fourth repeat you’re just “okay, gramps, we realize you want to see your neighbors watering their lawns naked but that’s why we don’t let you out of the house anymore.”

I’m glad I’m not the only one that had no fucking clue what that abbreviation meant.

To be clear, the show about boys [True Detective] got way too much credit, and the show about girls [Doll and Em] got way too little. This is how we approach male vs. female work. Let’s call it the “male glance,” the narrative corollary to the male gaze. We all have it, and it’s ruining our ability to see good art.

Yeah, I read American Psycho well before the movie came out. About a quarter of the way in I’m like “Yeah, I get it. The yuppie serial killer approaches horrifying murder and skin cream with equally mundane banality. What else you got?”

Starship Troopers is a good example of this, although that so actively fights the source material it maybe doesn’t count.

Madonna found him somewhat un-harmless.

Eh, I don’t get the hate for Sean Penn. He’s annoying and self-righteous, but basically harmless other than that. Let’s keep the hate flowing for the men that deserve it.

Well, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page is letting you know it’s an opinion or editorial. FOX News just claims it’s actual news while spewing propaganda. So I’d put them as the worst offender.

Vicious, ham-fisted satire.