It wasn’t until Manipulator’s comment that I realized this existed! I tend to miss a lot of the film reviews here now, for some reason.

Memo: make every movie from like Suicide Squad

His fully dressed body is lowered over a naked woman like a drawbridge. He doesn’t take off his glasses. He never takes off his glasses.

I was reminded of just how long a year this was by the inclusion of Nine Lives, which I could swear came out years ago.

Oh that Meryl Streep, she’s such a phoney baloney!

D- is the worst grade at the AVC, F means the film takes things to a whole different level

Or a Jonathan Safran Foer pastiche

I was just saying the other day I had no idea how The Day the Clown Cried got funded, and then this evening I find out Hitler’s Folly existed.

Bernal’s playing Chilean again—I remember some discussion about the quality (or lack thereof) of his accent in No (which I, a non-Spanish speaker, loved regardless)—wonder how he does here.

Greatest hero in Minnesota history

Reminded me of this

In a dark age you, sir, a true hero.

I think that…

It’s a very black humor, which is both very Verhoevenisch and, in its willingness to be completely inappropriate, very Dutch. But I’d agree that “having a sense of humor” is very different from “hilarious.”

I’ve gotten through five (I think—I’m missing a volume) volumes of the old original Lupin III manga (though they are small volumes). It’s interesting because it actually starts out incredibly strong, but very different—Lupin’s more of a loner, but he’s more dangerous, far more powerful, and we know less about him.…

Borges also has a short story with a similar premise, “The Immortal” (read for the first time this year—collected in Labyrinths, which I read for the first time though I’d encountered some of his stories elsewhere).

A lot of it is definitely that these are flawed people and Homer’s aware of those (most of Greek mythology is ironic comeuppance, after all), but some of it is definitely Bronze Age values. These kings were basically driven by honor (mean that in the antiquated sense) and piracy, after all.

You’d like Capital in the 21st Century—it’s very clear and the use of nineteenth-century literature to explain stuff is a lot of fun.

Randomly seeing the “proper” spelling of bologna is one of the funniest things I’ve encountered in AVC comments.

For four individualists: