Well, against my better instincts, I'm engaging.

To me, this seems more important than a dedicated editor (though that would be great) or a set-date for when the review comes out (aren't we all used to reading reviews of stuff we won't have access to for a while, especially movies?).

Yeah, the screenshot itself has the Murakami-doing-Chagall-doing-Roger Dean look of Adventure Time, but the trailer shows that there's totally something else going on in the movie itself. Thanks for the links!

Vampire Weekend excepted, every all-male band I can think since like Pavement has been all-male to its strict detriment. Not that they're bad, just deprived.

Yeah, I did my list for a rival website that will go unnamed and just sort of accidentally almost all of them were kickass women. Bully has been a revelation, and I also just got into Veruca Salt this year.

I haven't been able to pick a favorite from Emotion! Probably Boy Problems?

Egyptian.

The Argonauts immediately became one of my favorite books—but God is it hard to convince or even to suggest to someone to drop $25 on 140 pages. I also dug Robert Christgau's memoir a lot more than everybody else.

I refuse to engage further. I'm not continuing an interaction when my only motivation is anger. I don't know what you're like in general, but you've been a dick to me for no reason. You say nobody cares about my opinion, but here you are a day later, caring, in a way. But you very decisively have neither the moral nor…

Agreed, it looks like high-budget Adventure Time, and Adventure Time is already a beautiful thing.

lol actually I did end up going to see it and I agree, it was great! I almost cried several times.

For sure. I work in a theater and slip into screenings all the time. I love going to movies, and the experience is very different.

There's no way you could know this, so forgive me, but the word "transcendental" always raises my hackles (my entire thesis was an explicit assault on transcendence in art). I'm suspicious of emotions that feel transcendental, and I'm suspicious when I feel like people are trying to evoke them. But I digress.

Dude, come on.

You may have inadvertently explained exactly why I prefer laptop-viewing: involuntary responses get in the way of my critical faculties. For a Cognitive Film Theory, I understand why the involuntary responses are worth studying as a way to understand the film, but my preferred way with engaging with movies is formally…

When pencil and paper were as expensive as film, all we got were biblical exegeses and court lyric.

"Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper." ~Jean Cocteau

I think criticizing me for not paying for movies is totally valid, but unrelated to "respecting the full immersion." I don't look for full immersion a lot of the time—I suppose that's not respecting it, in a way, but more accurately it's just not something I'm going for.

Fair enough, and I am ambivalent about it—but it also isn't related to whether I'm experiencing the film or not. It just means that the way I am is bad for filmmaking/filmmakers. I do know how difficult filmmaking is, and how expensive for independent folks.

I think people's very aggressive rejection to how I watch movies is interesting. Also, unpleasant.