I'm the motherflippin'

Nah, the moral equivalency has been there for a while. The stuff with Connor's dad in the American revolution was definitely set up this way, as far as I can remember - there was a whole big semi-playable cutscene in a theatre, where you did your normal stuff, and then suddenly oh no! I was playing as a Templar all…

Came here looking for Kurt Russell in Deathproof. Was not disappointed. (06:55)

Yeah. Rewatch time clearly.

Waaaaaait… I totally didn't pick that up. Fail. Time for another rewatch I guess. OH WELL.

Awesome. Favourite thing about this movie - it's gets away with the exact same "hiding in plain sight" manoeuvre about four times, and the viewer falls straight into the trick over and over again. The hats and bunnies!

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I disagree. I kind of love the batshit-craziness of the duplicator, especially as it doubles down on the hiding in plain sight idea discussed in this article. The first shot of the movie is the pile of duplicated hats! Nolan is telling us outright that this is going to be the answer, then puts a…

Personal fave: the deliberately bad scansion in "Freedom Isn't Free":
Wat wud yoo doo,
Ifyoowereaskedotogiveupyurdreams… fur freedom?

Team America has to be in my top 5 favourite films ever. And Dowd is so right that a huge chunk of the genius is in the soundtrack work. The songs are some of the finest genre pastiche you'll ever hear IMO.

Yeah. When one of you're books themes in "ennui", it's going to be a fine line to walk to stop that becoming "boredom" on screen.

I think I mean it in both senses!

I think it's because, if you strip out all the fart jokes and gurning puppets, the storyline is dark and disturbing as hell!

When you think about it, it's kind of amazing that Henson and co got away with making a kid's movie with a bunch of puppets that, at its core, is straight up about sex!

…and of course, we've all forgotten the daddy of them all - Mozart's Requiem.

It's the kick drum that starts in the intro and then continues beneath everything else in Lazarus. The second half of the bar, with its thud-thud, thud-thud is very like Tchaikovsky's figure to my ear (though clearly in 4 not 3). The first two notes of the falling sax figure that comes in over the top shortly after…

Long standing examples from the Classical world too - Mahler 9th symphony, Tchaikovsky 6th (probably).

It only turns into alcohol if you let it sit.

Happy New Year AV Club commentariat. May this community continue to be an island of friendly sanity in the increasingly dystopian science fiction hellscape of the Real World!

"Why *is* the Earth's hair green?"

It's been amusing me recently that the current EDM craze is basically reliving the 90's UK/european dance music experience out again, 20 years later. It's kind of cute.