It sounds a lot more like a description of the rider than the rider itself. Every rider I've seen is written in legalese and itemized.

Thanks, that makes me feel a bit better about how absurdly over-priced the Joy-Cons are.

So, when you play on the big screen, do you use the whole Joycon, or just a half? In other words, can 2 people play without buying any extra controllers?

I've never seen "mts" as an abbreviation for meters - in America or elsewhere.

2 grand isn't a ridiculously large amount of money to spend on a vacation. You certainly don't have to be rich to do so.

Isn't it just dairy from the same animal, though?

I was sort of getting off point and talking more generally about how Kubrick works - I haven't read The Short-Timers, although I've wanted to for awhile. In fact, I think it just bounced to the top of my Amazon queue, along with The Last Detail.

I've seen it - it's pretty good.

You could add pretty much any Kubrick movie to that list. He loved taking a book or short story and chewing it, spitting it out, picking up the pieces and bending them to his warped genius.

Really? You might be right, but this is the first time I've heard that.

It's such a wonderfully odd movie.

Right, because in reality the person watching the gate in a dungeon of psychopaths would probably be a dead-eyed robot, at best.

Yeah, he's basically the only decent human being that Clarice sees when she goes from meeting Dr. Chilton to meeting Dr. Lecter.

Just to add on to your point - lots of great perfectly cast character actors like Tracey Walter, Frankie Faison, Paul Lazar (a Demme regular), Charles Napier (same).

My memory is a bit hazy, since I read the book ~20 years ago, but isn't the movie pretty close to the book? I think that might be why I felt underwhelmed - not because the book was bad, but it wasn't particularly interesting after having seen the movie.

Not to be a contrarian, but I was fairly underwhelmed by the book. I'd put it with The Godfather and LA Confidential as the rare exceptions where the movie is actually better than the book.

films full of warmth and humanity

Fuck, that sucks. I was just thinking about Married to the Mob yesterday.

Interesting point. Taking Shampoo (1975) as the height of Warren's swinging 70s charisma, I tend to think of those great internal/intellectual roles starting several years before that. But, checking IMDB, it wasn't until around 1975 and after that you started seeing those smart/bookish actors like Dustin Hoffman…

*The other one being Mission to Mars, where the initial text scrawl/exposition was so bad, I looked over at the person I saw the movie with, and she looked back, and without a word we knew what both of us were thinking: "Are you fucking kidding me".