The only thing that still needs to die…is 2016.

It's weird to describe a movie that successful as underappreciated, but it still seems like the word applies. It was sharp, evocative, likeable, funny and smart.

Ugh. I get why someone might see the gameplay and think "this looks cinematic" but that story, oy. I'm amazed they never found a better way to clean up that mess.

I figured Fassbender was a fan of the games, in this case. The fact that he's a listed producer on such a goofy story means that either he had a reason to want to do this or else they needed someone to step in and he did so.

Poster tagline: No More Extra Lives.

Seriously! Imagine if the local teacher's union bought a missile cruiser, parked it in Lake Michigan and the United States military couldn't stop them from causing "catastrophic" casualties to Chicago. "Now youse guys are gonna wise up or we're gonna wise you up, see?"

In slightly-unrelated news, smashing my mouse on the upvote button repeatedly doesn't actually generate extra upvotes. Pity.

Thanks again! (And Alison Krauss showed up in there, I saw, so there's at least one more Yank in the mix.)

Welp, I'm sold; will do!

That was a much closer fit than I expected. Thanks for sharing that.

I'll try not to rant twice in the same set of posts, but the older I get, the less patience I have for that (now-outdated) idea in hip-hop that sampling is just sampling, it's not stealing, and nobody anywhere should ever have a problem with it. I appreciate that it made a new type of music that couldn't otherwise…

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This may well be ingracious of me, but it's very hard for me to hear about a project like this (I haven't listened to this album, for the record) and not instantly categorize it as inherently self-indulgent at some level. All too often, the "trappings" that the Tortured Artist (tm) in question are railing…

Heh, maybe not. As has been observed elsewhere in the comments here, I got the impression that they weren't actually wrong about what they were saying—and I could see them feeling the need to assert their narrative, given when this was taking place.

That's the thing with famous people who grouse about the mechanisms that got them famous: tons of not-famous people out there have something to say too.

It's just that they don't have all this *stuff* in there that needs baring, man! They're all boring and they all have it so easy, they don't even know.

…Unless he was actually right about everything. A lot of these studio-produced albums are the product of far more talent than just the person whose name is on the cover (see also: http://www.avclub.com/artic… ). If she was clueless about that reality in the studio, or unfair about it afterwards - which certainly…

I definitely do view the intransigent partisanship of the GOP these last few years as a revenge thing for Obamacare getting passed despite their objections.

I took it as straightforward that he "brought balance to the Force" by reducing the number of Jedi in the galaxy to the same number as the Sith: 2. Yoda and Obi-Wan, Palpatine and Vader. Otherwise, I totally agree—the Jedi were clueless and perpetually in over their heads, for all their basic competence. If…

It made me crazy when certain types of conservatives would paint him as the Antichrist. I mean, I'm a bit conservative myself, but sheesh guys, that just means I disagree with the man about the best course of action, not that I somehow require personal revenge against him.

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