Yeah, I agree with the model being flawed. Probably the best American novel I ever read was Grapes of Wrath. I picked that up and put it down probably three times before really getting into it. I restarted that thing multiple times because for some reason I just could not get past the initial few chapters. Once I did,…

They’ve reformed several times recently and are still awesome with new material. So thanks for nothing, person who is snobbily outraged easily and assumes the worst.

Ironically, I had a lengthy introduction about exactly this, but cut it down for the sake of getting to the point. Oh well.

It doesn’t matter what his motivation was, it was an act of terror because he shot over 500 people and killed more than a tenth of those. There is no cause other than terror; he was prepared, these people were strangers to him and he did not see their faces.

Re: “the Danish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” - according to my Danish girlfriend no such film exists. She also then muttered something about how Americans are always confusing her people with the Swedish, but it contained so many swear words I shan’t repeat it here.

Sounds like the remake has the same conceptual problem that bugged me about the original: namely, the fact that this “experiment” in no way constitutes valid science. Science relies on repeatability and external verification. The experimental method is specifically about taking subjective perception out of the…

Now the only way to remove the curse is to get someone else to read the review. And so on and so on must the curse travel for all eternity. (Kind of like the movie “It follows”)

In the photo you guys keep using for these articles, Knowles’ badge literally shows him preying on a woman.

Everything, lately, has become a signifier of everything else. Which, on one hand, is something (as a somewhat paranoia-prone pot smoking liberal arts major) I relate to, and on the other hand is something that is just exhausting to do everyday, for every goddamned thing.

will it help if i throw my laptop into the washing machine?

Yeah, I love Goldfinger because it sets up a very stupid plan (rob Fort Knox) but is actually a very clever plan (make all my gold reserves worth considerably more). Just because it involves various Bond set piece components like the bomb and planes doesn’t mean his plan doesn’t make sense, and it’s probably the…

Yeah to be fair to Goldfinger, his plan was largely sound. He’s only foiled by Bond apparently turning Pussy Galore (was never really sure what the implication was there), which is a bit tough to mitigate for when you’re considering what could go wrong. That film’s probably the strongest example of “why isn’t the bad…

“... whatever Auric Goldfinger was up to when he tried to irradiate Fort Knox.” I believe he was trying to (permanently?) remove all American gold reserves from circulation, thereby increasing the value of his own gold by an order of magnitude. I’ve always wondered whether the economics of such a scheme are sound,…

Hold on, you’re saying this is trash? A Mark Millar based film?

“A loner child wanders into a curiosity shop run by a slightly crusty but ultimately avuncular older man”

I couldnt take my name off anything- I didnt see the movie until it came out on Amazon. I literally never saw a single moment of shot film or read any rewrites after my last copy was turned in. I’ve killed AJ Via off since then since he’s so attached to this reality wherein he wrote this movie, once.

that was my first giveaway that something was wrong: It was supposed to be Massacre IN aisle 12 even though it was originally just AISLE 12. And trust me AJ VIA is not my real name- I used a psuedonym knowing this might be something to walk away from one day.

hey whoa whoa- it was originally CLUE meets CLERKS on acid! That’s not a bad idea! It was good in 1999 when I was 18 and worked at a hardware store here on Long Island. It’s only in retrospect, Mr. Bowie, that it looks bad. I think,

I was never a prolific commenter, but with this new design I just can’t be bothered anymore. The site’s layout is extremely unappealing, articles move off the main page too fast, it’s essentially impossible to have a conversation, you have to reload the entire page to see new comments, there’s barely any nesting so…

Nested. Comments.