Thirded, both as to the greatness of TRS, and that Caves of Altamira is perhaps my favorite SD song, as well.  

Yup.  I stopped reading this immediately upon reaching those words.  I mean, you might be able to describe Midnight Vultures as a lot of things, but "weak" is just not one of them.  If anything, you might pick on it for over-reaching, trying a bit too hard, hamming it up in the attempt to pull off some of the homages…

I'm with you Scrawler.  I always liked his posts, and appreciated his in-depth discussions.  I wish he'd come back.  Come back, TWFS, you beautiful bastard!

I think what I love most about it, too, is that (the sweating aside) it really isn't THAT bad.  He makes it through the lines.  Many, many films would have really tortured Aaron's performance, made it too broad, too comic, too horrible.  This movie has the balls to make it the kind of failure that would really, really…

I'd have to agree.  I don't mind Apollo 13 or Backdraft, I guess, but The Paper is way better than either of them. And, Michael Keaton!

I love The Paper almost as much as I love this movie.  Great call.  I need to rewatch both of them.

I don't feel comfortable with The Lost Boys being referred to as "lovably cheesy." Nor do I enjoy Jason Patric being described as a "wimpy" vampie in this movie, or the effects and horror scenes being described as "vampire-cliche," or the movie's plot being described as "cornball."  Actually it holds up pretty well,…

Derek Smalls on the bass - he wrote this!

You're absolutely right, Nathan.  And, along with most everyone else here I'm sure, I can't wait to see what that next chapter brings for you.  Sincerely, good luck and thanks for everything.

Thanks for this thoughtful and, to my mind at least, entirely accurate portrayal of what's been happening with this site for the last few years.  It also makes sense that this slow transition away from film discussion is what drove this core group of writers away, at least until someone from that group sets us all…

Just adding my voice to this one.  Thanks, Nathan, you'll be greatly missed.  See you in the funny papers.

thirded.  What the hell is going on over there?

Dear God yes to both of these.  It's not the "end," I know, but the moment in P2 that really got me: [SPOILERS] after many levels of hearing Cave Johnson narrarate the rise and fall of his company, when it's clear that he's sick and has downloaded his assistant Caroline into GLaDoS, he says the last bit of dialogue as…

Yeah, what the hell?  Tasha, thanks so much for all your great work here over the years.  I'm becoming genuinely concerned about my favorite place on the internet.  Does anyone have any intel on what the fuck is going on? 

And, Robot Devil is right: YPU is really great.  You should read it.

So, I guess I was repeating the point you already made in my post above.  Ah, well, great minds and all that.

Man, what a great fucking book Gentlemen of the Road is.  I'm always telling everyone to read it, seems like out of Chabon's work that's the one no one else has picked up.  (That or The Final Solution, which I also really enjoyed).  Good call mentioning it.  Chabon's fluency with obscure storytelling formats…

Thanks much, Scott.  We'll miss you.  Good luck on whatever comes next.

Ah, Scrawler, it feels so strange to disagree with you so completely… but it sounds like you've given it some thought and some chances and the movie just isn't for you.  Fair enough.  God damn I love that movie, though, despite its many flaws.  What is it the kids say nowadays, about hitting and the feels? 

Said this already on Twitter, but thanks so much for all of your great work on this site.  I've been a regular reader for more than 10 years now, and your thoughtful, challenging, intelligent writing has led me to more films I would never have seen than I can count, and given me hours upon hours of reading and…