I guess there's the Sheriff and his son in Kill Bill, the ones who investigate the wedding massacre. They're in his part of Grindhouse too. It's a fairly positive light I'd say - they don't really accomplish anything but they do seem to know what's going on, like they're not bumbling doofuses.

That's a great one!

… then for no reason he blurted out the N-word.

Nerdholm Syndrome?
Florence Nerdingale Complex?

In your mind, what are quote marks for?

I'm just guessing, but I think you might be here to serve as the straight man for the rest of us… it's only a theory.

He's WORSE than George Lucas!

The topic is Star Wars… I mean, if people were in here complaining about late-career Woody Allen, that would be one thing, but… the topic is Star Wars.

Ya, that did occur to me, but sometimes with film critics the reputation of the director sways them, especially when they see it all together at a festival and they're in a "let's all celebrate the art of film-making" kind of mood.

Charlie Kaufman has spent his whole career trying to convince himself that other people are real, and this is what it's finally come to.

I don't know… I like Charlie Kaufman, but are you really supposed to just say all this stuff straight out like that? The narrator sounds kind of like that graduation speech that got turned into a song - https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Well, it's definitely not that first one! But the second one sounds extremely plausible.

ya, next week we spend 72 minutes exploring the mayor's backstory.

Hmm, I guess it's possible that they didn't intend it to be a cliffhanger, but I don't really buy that because there were plenty of ways to show him dying that would be definitive.

I don't really care if Glenn is alive or dead - the only characters I think I'd really miss are Carol and Daryl (now that they broke my heart by killing off Emily Kinney.) The rest of them are more or less interchangeable to me, and even Rick could be replaced by pretty much any generic stoic. So it's not that I'm…

Were you born knowing how to make cheese? Or did someone have to explain it to you?

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Let's sue disqus for the real identity of Norma Ouellette.

Ya, it's clear that I was paying even less attention than usual. In my defense, they appear to be doing everything they can to drive my attention away from the screen.

I couldn't finish The Audition. After the scene with the thing in the laundry bag, I was done.