I like how that one also uses orange text for the title, just like the Taken movies frequently do!

Hasn't every generation since the Boomers gone through a period like that, though?

When this came out, my mom and her friends saw it very early. They subsequently spent a lot of time outside of movie theaters VERY LOUDLY talking about the ending.

As someone working in a bookstore, they're not. Millenials ARE buying them, but I'd say gen-X is actually the biggest market. Definitely a lot of boomers, too.

There's universal health care. I'd move there.

I went to a Catholic grade school and, among other things, was taught a pretty thorough unit on Islam. We even visited the local Islamic center! At no point was anything about Islam presented as wrong, it was just shown as an alternate belief system that was perfectly valid.

That's totally the look of the granddad from Kekkaishi, yeah.

My friend is proposing, if this ever actually hits theatres, spamming the twitter hashtag with plans to watch Ghost in the Shell tonight! …with pictures of the dvds of S.A.C. and/or the films.

We still see that level of craftsmanship, the problem is they're in limited releases because a lot of them aren't coming out of the U.S. (see: Tomm Moore's films, a lot of French output, obligatory Ghibli reference even if they're shuttering). Disney still does some 2D shorts that get pretty positive receptions, at…

I really admire The Town. Sure, a lot of its success comes from the performances, but you need a director who can get those.

I dunno, I suspect they could take us or Leamas.

It seems to be one of those things that does have merit of its own, but basically has to be seen first in order for it to not be disappointing at best.

So now Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan will have played Le Carre leads!

I would say the Tinker Tailor movie, but I'll admit to being rabidly opposed to it from the time it was announced. The miniseries is perfect, don't mess with that.

Actually, a switch from mass-market to ebook while people still have interest in buying trade paper and hardcover books is exactly what's happening!

/sits in a corner with Over the Rhine's "Ohio," the sound of nostalgia-tinged disillusionment

I did!

Grave of the Fireflies was Takahata.

I kept wondering, actually, if Hanks caught the cough from Rylance, who was constantly sniffling.

These pun threads accomplish jackal.