I remember being pretty put off by the gimmicky, kind of condescending "celebrity explains aspect of the subprime lending crash" like Margot Robbie in a bubble bath, Anthony Bourdain, etс but liking the Big short beyond that

Ooh the Bats are great, I'd also suggest listening to The Clean if you haven't yet. So many pop gems on Daddy's Highway.

I avoided the stone roses for a while (I think I saw a picture of them all in bucket hats like a bunch of LLs Cool J and thought "this seems like some club kid shit" but I saw this thread and just listened to Fools Gold. Honestly not sold yet but I'll keep trying!

I mean I was absolutely delighted and entertained by the finale and it's a happy ending for Don, I more meant what that ending says both about consumerism and the ethos of the counterculture.

"This just in: nothing happened"

I just saw this last night and…yeah, all of what you said

It was pretty cool how they actually used the technological advances since the earlier movies to do more with environment designs (Vader's timeshare in Mordor and the trading post at the beginning especially) instead of just falling into the same "snow, desert, forest" thing.

Yeah that was some "Ice to meet you" level shit frsure jeepers

God the ending of Mad Men when Don figures out how to commodify the counterculture and use it as another means to sell products was one of the most perfectly brutal, cynical things I've ever seen. Amazing.

Wow the level of remove in quality between Hannibal the movie and Hannibal the show is just wild. They both embrace the grand Guignol over the top nature of the material but to such different ends, the movie is just kind of tacky and schlocky and the show is this operatic, surreal mood piece and way more disturbing…

To put it more succinctly I liked it but didn't love it.

It's been a few years but I remember thinking it was alright, not amazing. I know there's some folks who say it's one of their best but I definitely remember it being kinda minor, maybe partially because Im hardly familiar with screwball comedy (for example I've never even seen Bringing Up Baby) or older (pre-1950s)…

I finally got around to some Miyazaki and I see why people dig his stuff. Saw spirited away and the character design was very inventive and yknow, pretty much all the hype the rest of you heard like 15 years ago is true. Also saw Princess Mononoke which was pretty neat, kinda like a darker Ferngully.

Oh man, after not caring for Force Awakens THAT was what I wanted out of a star wars movie! A lean, rip roaring space laser adventure. Maybe the whole "ragtag band of misfits on a seemingly impossible mission" is just a narrative I like more but yknow, all the archetypes worked like the sassy robot and the blind monk…

No one who speaks German could be evil!

Oh man I LOVE Copland! He's so dopey in it.

True, true, not really equivalent. Really my favorite part of this story is imagining Sylvester Stallone reading Great Expectations or something, with little glasses on…

I think Trump is pretty well deplorable and his presidency represents a dystopian nightmare but this isn't totally unprecedented, I mean Kal Penn was part of the Obama administration for a bit right?

Yeah most definitely. The Radiohead one is especially hard to relate to since people seem to have this capital-G greatest band ever thing about them like they do with the Beatles (who I also think are yknow, just fine, not terrible not amazing) and I'm just sort of neutral.

I actually saw 7 for the first time tonight, like I just finished watching it. Wow it's generic! In a way I respect the prequels more, because despite being terrible and batshit insane they were clearly products of someone's vision, a deeply, deeply stupid vision but kind of more interesting than this slightly remixed…