I just Googled it, and you can rent it for $2.99 on YouTube.

If it were poison, yes, it would be indigestible, not inedible. Your point further suggests, however, that my distinction might be just be my being a pedantic prick, because being this picky about words makes it harder to talk, not easier.

This type of comment has never made sense to me. How can something be "more listenable"? You can listen to a record just by leaving it running. That's literally all it takes. Ditto for "watchable" movies—how much does this really take? You just leave it on, and two hours later, viola, you've watched the fucking thing.…

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words: 'mank' and 'ind.' What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

I had one of the collections of Deep Thoughts in the bathroom growing up, and I was surprised to see Jack Handey's byline in The New Yorker last week, because I'd assumed for some reason that he was a long-dead classic comedian.

@avclub-7b35a1122309e7451c5060ae86700961:disqus Right, but the overlay of syrupy music makes it seem like everything's better now. How? The conspiracy still happened, so any comments the evil scientist guy made about the general public malaise will now, by the logic of the movie, be pretty much vindicated. It'd be a…

That shot, however, is what made me really hate a movie I was otherwise kinda OK with. HOW IS THAT A HAPPY ENDING?

Bro, please. My original statement, I'll admit, was just trolling, but even as a semi-fan of Lars, I can't pretend that movies like Antichrist and Dogville are especially flattering toward anyone, especially toward rape-averse women.

I would put Cloud Atlas into the "flawed films that try" category, too, but yes: those robbery scenes were searingly intense.

If you saw the movie and didn't think it was worth it, that's okay with me. It's subjective. When I called it "essential," it was exactly for the things that you said were flawed. We can agree on that. But I didn't see another movie this year that attempted to put nearly as much into one film as Place, and I think…

To me the three-part structure seemed more "novelistic" than most movies. Of course the structure wasn't exactly clever (1. A, 2. B, 3. A+B), but how often do we actually get to see that much character development and change over the course of a movie? Bradley Cooper's character had to actually deal with the…

I just saw Pain and Gain, and I have to agree. The negative reaction to it would be unthinkable were it connected to some name other than Michael Bay. I would like some mention of The Place Beyond the Pines here, too, which is one of those "flawed but essential" movies that's often ignored.

It might be legitimate to remark that "indie pictures are [not] inherently superior," but why link that statement to The Place Beyond the Pines? That movie was awesome. Ryan Gosling as a tatted thug attending his son's baptism was the most moving scene I've experienced this year, and the script's structural innovation…

Why? Doesn't it make sense to respond to something based on your ideological core? I don't necessarily agree with them, but I can totally understand someone hating, say, Antichrist because he considered himself a feminist.

Don't be rude. D'Angelo keeps carrying on relationships in two states, and we don't want his children over here to know.

"Painfully accurate" is the phrase that came to mind. I doubt I'm the only one here to have written my share of embarassingly over-footnoted essays.

I'm willing to suspend judgement, since it is, after all, Palahniuk's baby. When Bret Easton Ellis did a similar thing with Imperial Bedrooms (his Less Than Zero sequel), I thought it turned out fine, and was a sort of interesting cap to his oeuvre thus far. Maybe Chuck can manage the same.

@avclub-03c20a504b131870a8100160e5e3c496:disqus It's good you pointed this out, because you're right, I was confused. I was thinking of Hollywood Ending, a totally different film. My mistake. Sorry.

EDIT: Ignore what I wrote. As is pointed out below, it's not correct.

This little-known character actor named Quentin Tarantino put Anything Else on the list of his 20 favourite movies since he making them…