I really love that movie, but Mickey Rourke's Bukowski is extremely non-Bukowski-like. "Stylized", I guess is the more polite word for it.

Post Office + The Most Beautiful Woman In Town would be my recommendation, to get at both his prose and poetry.

Just glad to see AtS getting some love. It and BtVS were the first series that really made me get involved with comment boards. Good ol' UseNet…

I always felt that Mutant Enemy put Cordelia through just a few too many changes. Like they didn't quite know what to do with her. Maybe that had to do with Charisma Carpenter's pregnancy, but strictly from an in-story perspective it was a bit disconcerting.

I thought it mirrored the book very well, except for Pynchon's writing style, which is sparkling and funny and cannot be directly translated onto the screen, even with a voiceover from a semi-present character.

Or (my guess), none of the necessary information will be found and Daya's baby will simply be lost in the system and adopted or fostered out, untraceable due to negligence and/or incompetence.

He had me at "Mommy".

Also, "Take a deep breath. We're going to do the torture thing." in The Long Kiss Goodnight.

The review is right in saying this is an incomplete portrait, but the rest of his observations are overly simplistic. These kids are going to be alright, despite being raised like Flowers In The Attic. It's strongly implied that the father was abusive to his wife, but she doesn't exhibit the awful passivity of a…

It's made out of cereal boxes and yoga mats. Seriously.

The dad's not a monster, but no they were locked in for a lot of the time. At least they gave the impression that they were.

There are a couple of scenes where he's not John Cusack, and just becomes Brian Wilson. I definitely appreciated that. I do wish he had at least combed his hair like latter-day BW. That's all we're asking for, John.

I like Dano's stuff. I'm glad to see him playing someone who's not a Cringing Coward(tm)

I'm still not done hating that movie. I hated how unfair to the audience the big reveals were, because they were not even slightly set up. (Okay, maybe the tiniest of teases…but) Suddenly the movie just makes a big right turn and off we go into a completely different kind of movie than the one we started out on.

It was a little too loose for me back when I was in high school, but later, at a time when things got really dark, I just couldn't get enough of the song "Tonight's the Night". Yes it is.

Totally agree. I live here in NYC and I like that the current uber-gentrification of the city is what's behind the ideological rift between DD and Wilson Fisk. And what's at stake (although I'm afraid we all know how that one's gonna go… at least IRL)

I didn't even realize that's what "The Incident" was and I watched the whole series. Doy! But definitely not a plot point.

I guess it depends on what they like about it.

I can't really take part in the conversation until I've watched the season — way too many spoilers ahoy, but I do have some random observations of my own:

Given all the delayed resolutions he has to plot points, it's almost like he expected to pull a Robert Jordan and just keep cranking 'em out until he croaks—but the show has been so popular that he can't continue to drag his feet.