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Dangling modifier
I hate to be a pedant in a sombre thread, but the obit here has a pretty bad dangling modifer.

Personally, I'm happy to see some of the Mr. Wizard/MacGyver stuff go. It struck me as very artificial and TV-landish, not to mention not entirely plausible. A little bit every now and then is okay, but Walter's not a superhero/villian or a secret agent.

Marie's comment that if Walter had killed himself, there'd be a a smell "by now" made me think more than just a day had passed. Though there certainly doesn't seem to be more than a day gone by in the scenes with Tuco.

Obligatory "What, no ________???"
What, no Danger Mouse???

Yug. I am a windbag. But I'm procrastinating from doing real work, so it's all in a good cause. There's good, proper reasoning for you.

"As for our collective works: you might say that the one thing that has been retained amongst our varying positions is our dismantling of Enlightenment born human subject."

Tom, well I certainly didn't say anything about not allowing people to consume what they consume or enjoy what they enjoy. I was just pointing out that I believe you can reasonably argue that what you choose to enjoy has actual consequences on your life and (when considered as a social trend) on society. Aesthetics…

The End of the Rationalism?
As science hones in more and more on these kinds of phenomena, I wonder how much longer the Enlightenment-born principles underlying rationalism and humanism and individualism will continue to hold up. If we get to a point where science (and not just on the quantum mechanical level) really…

For my money, "Alice" is Svankmajer's best feature film (at least of those I've seen). "Faust" has some good parts, but is generally a bit too shaggy. "Little Otik" just didn't quite work for me.

Well, besides a memorable make-up job, there seems to be little evidence that "London After Midnight" was actually any, you know, good.

Stephen Fry, on one of his podcasts, analyzes a quote from Oscar Wilde. Apparently, when asked on one of his tours of the U.S. why he thought America was such a violent country, Wilde replied: "It's because your wallpaper is so ugly."

They're well-known as images, but how many people under the age of 30 have actually watched one in its entirety? I'd guess very few. Which is to say, they're iconic, but they're not actually that well-known. Which is a crying shame.

The little Mickey Mouse laughs were the one thing that transformed the big speeches from tedious to just funny enough to be passable.

"I would guess that a leader who is an unpredictable and very real danger to his associates wouldn't inspire much loyalty from them…"

Or Sam the Eagle.

Maybe a step towards better survival skills would be not to take a handful of online personals as representative of "American society."

I don't remember the rest of the score enough to remark on it, but I for one was nothing but profoundly irritated by the Bolero knock-off — not an homage, not a riff on, but a rip-off. It came across not as an interesting work of art commenting on Ravel, but instead as the cinematic equivalent of those sound-alikes…

I'll admit that I haven't seen much of Pushing Daisies, but based on the premise here's my criticism about its "darkness" to "whimsy" ratio. I think part of the problem is that the key darkness issues that Blaffair points out are ultimately pretty artificial. He and the one he loves can't touch. Yeah, it's…

Also, if you count traditional games that don't have cartoon characters printed on the board — backgammon, chess, etc. — there's an even larger active adult player-base. Add Scrabble to that list, and you get even more.