Thompson’s era made a lot of infeasible things seem possible. That’s the enduring appeal of the time, and the reason we forgive his indulgences as a kind of search for something beyond the mundane. And maybe it kind of was. I don’t really know what was up with Thompson, though his behavior to me indicates a genuine…

A brilliant film, funny as hell - until it’s not. Gilliam’s most coherent, straightforward effort and stronger for it. In my book, his masterpiece, and kudos to Criterion for recognizing that.

Near perfect adaptation?
This and the movie of Slaughterhouse 5 are about as close as you can get to source material.

Thank you! I knew I knew him, and thought of the Breakfast Club but convinced myself I was wrong and he must be from something else.

They also certainly won’t have their share of visitors anymore.

Meh. Quantity versus quality. Malkmus is without a doubt more consistently great. I do like Pollard though.

No one writes better hooks than Malkmus. No one.

I have no problems with Aliens in and of itself, but it suffers from the basic movie villain problem. The first film made the ‘Alien’ seem impossible to kill, but Aliens made them fodder.

I didn’t think the Xenomorph in Alien 3 was a downgrade, it felt more like a return to form: a singular unstoppable creature just like in the first movie. What I considered a downgrade were the “nerfed” xenomorphs in Aliens. Instead of an unkillable creature with acid blood that can eat through several layers of…

Prometheus could have been good, I think, and the look of the film was well done. Then, the idiots start taking off their helmets...

Another killer Beastie Boys performance on Letterman:

Is it weird that 20 years later I still think of Hello Nasty as the “new” record?

If you’re talking about the 1986 sequel, I agree completely. Mostly because of Bill Paxton. The movie can’t settle on a tone until his character, who I am always laughing at when I’m pretty sure that’s not consistent with what the movie wants to be, finally dies. The characters who get offed before he does are…

I’m sorry, I can’t take anything you say seriously after I saw this:

Michelle Wolf was calling her a liar and a gaslighter. That is all true. She would fit right in at with the other aunties in the Handmaid’s Tale. Frankly, I’m disgusted by all the women rushing to her defense. She is not the one that needs to be defended.

I would say that there were actually two MOAB’s dropped during this speech, the first being the “should have done more research” part in reference to herself and then the “profiting” off Trump. Amen, sister. Amen.

Sorry, but stop promoting Uber, Lyft/Uber are interchangable, but Lyft at minimum has had less high profile shitfuckery going down at its company. Everytime you write an article that mentions Uber and not a competitor you are giving them free advertising. At the bare minimum you should mention both.

I’d seen this one maybe 5 times before watching Rocky Horror, and I always saw them compared, but holy hell is that movie a non-cinematic lazily-composed pile of garbage in comparison. It practically looks like a stage show, and the music (NOT THE LYRICS) is just repetitive 3 chord trash that any teenage 50s rocker…

Something tells me we’re not gonna be averaging 2000 comments an episode like last time. Fucking kinja.

Rocky Horror wishes it could be as cool and weird as Phantom of the Paradise.