Well I know what I'm going to be watching nonstop on Netflix.

Criticizing Tarantino's self-congratulatory focus on reference and pastiche is challenging now? I honestly know nearly as many critics of Tarantino's style as I know fans, myself included.

Ah yes, that acme of poor dialogue that is the Saint Crispin's Day speech.

Such good performances. And the end is just heartbreaking.

You know, I'd have liked to see Eight Men Out on this list. The team may not have been an underdog, but the players were so screwed over they didn't just lose the championship, they threw it.

Hey now.

ffff, I was thinking of his early books and completely failed to consider that Wee Free Men is, in fact, a first book in a subseries and brilliant.

No mention of The Shining?
For shame.

As far as first (and arguably even second) entries in the Discworld sub-series go, I think Wyrd Sisters and Mort are really the only ones that hold up when you're going back to them from later Pratchett.

(This is evident in his books as well.)

There was also a whole movement after Freedom came out and all the establishment critics (NYT, etc.) were frantic to be the one who could suck Franzen's dick the hardest, where people went "hey, why is it that when a white dude writes about the family drama of well-off white people for hundreds of pages, people seem…

I actually always thought The Village would have worked better as a straight horror fairy-tale, without the twist. It was clearly the aspect he was more interested in, and everything relating to the "twist" is what, well, made people dislike the film.