This post is why I wade through comments sections.  Brilliant and so fucking right.  I want to memorize and recite it every time I get asked why I don't own a Kindle, why we devote a huge percentage of space in our house to enormous bookshelves stuffed with used books and records.

Great comment, and you are completely right.  I am obsessed with this movie, it's easily my favorite Nolan film.  I'm always galled when people crow about having spotted this "twist," which is my mind is fairly spelled out throughout.  One of the things I love most about this movie is that the twin thing, other than…

The only thing more surprising to me than your mention of this movie in response to this question is how much, after thinking about it for a minute, I found myself agreeing with you.  I absolutely love this movie, and will watch every second of it every time I happen to catch it on TV.  So enjoyable, well-crafted,…

Great comment, and so, so right.  The terms "geek culture" or "nerd culture" have absolutely no meaning, beyond their use in the 1,000 stupid articles written every year saying, "Can you believe that the NERD CULTURE has become our MAINSTREAM CULTURE!?!?!?! What a crazy world it's become, derpy-derp, something…

I'm contractually obligated to note how much I like this post.

The Jerk and Duck Soup are worse comedies than Caddyshack 2 and Son-In-Law, gotcha.  This definitely makes my top 500 wittiest comments of all time list.

Wait wait wait… please reassure me that no one here is saying that The Jerk is "hit or miss."  One of the ten best comedies ever made, IMO.  But I agree with the love for All of Me here, and for Steve Martin's performance certainly.  This was one of those movies that was always on HBO in my formative years, and that I…

Love this movie too.  I feel like it doesn't portray the unglamorous side of the mafia, necessarily, so much as it simply shows you what life is like for mediocre-level guys stuck in the mafia's equivalent of the NBA D-league, or an A-level minor league baseball team in the middle of nowhere.  As opposed to…

This came up between a few of us last week in discussions of the song "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday," but: as the parent of a toddler, it's absolutely infuriating to me that The Muppet Movie soundtrack has been out of print since the early 90's and remains frustratingly hard to find a (legal) copy of, at least…

No, that actually sounds better than what Flashback is.  I believe it came out two years ago.  The main concept is that, in the future, there's a drug you can take that actually allows you to fully relive a period of time from your past.  The downside is that, while you're in "flashback," you're essentially comatose…

I feel like I'm constantly saying this in comments, but The Terror is fucking amazing, and one of my favorite books of the last ten years.  Certainly among the best horror novels of the past 20.  It's so good that I've read almost everything else Simmons has written, trying in vain to find ANYTHING else remotely…

Coming late to this dizzying discussion.  Todd, I have a criticism of your criticism that does not involve LD's naked body, sexism, lookism, misogyny, the misuse of the term mysogyny, etc.: I think you've misread Patrick Wilson's character entirely. I didn't read him as the "phenominally lonely," melancholy, or sad…

God, yes. One of the things I've most looked forward to for years is introducing my son to the songs from this movie, which is one of my favorite things ever made.  It's absolutely infuriating that the only version of the soundtrack you can buy costs like $30 as an import on Amazon.  When you think about all of the…

Good call!

I think they have seasons one and two packaged together, and you can't go wrong staring there.  But, really, get the whole series - it's the best sketch comedy show ever made.

God damn it this is a great call.  One of the genuinely sweetest movie scenes I can think of.

Great article Jason, but I gotta say… Roth's vocals aren't nearly as bad as you think they are.  Even listening to the vocals for RWTD alone, they're perfectly fine IMO.  If you think there's a huge divide between what DLR is doing here and what Steven Tyler or even *gulp* Robert Plant do on a regular basis, I think…

I don't know… I love both shows, but no one on Lost ever interested me as much as Starbuck on BSG did.  One of the best female characters ever to appear on a television show, period.*

Yes!  This is what is so properly bitched about by fans of the Romero zombie movies, and why everyone always throws hissy fits over "fast zombies" when they see the World War Z trailer.  Not that 28 Days Later, Snyder's Dawn remake, et al. are bad movies, necessarily.  I actually really like 28 Days Later and don't…

Thanks much for the suggestions, I'll check them out.