Yeah, romanticizing? Heroin felt like the gibbering of a junkie. It felt like fundamentalist propaganda espoused by addicts; and it was flesh-crawling.

This is a well-written piece. I enjoyed reading it.

The best devil in Hollywood, right after De Niro.

Yeah, I do the same.

Loved the sequel. Spent hours playing as Iron Man. Plus they were very faithful to the source material, got all of the characters exactly right. Even managed to recreate some great moments from the comics. Excellent adaptation.

In time wasn't that bad. It just seemed to lose its sense of direction after the first half. The idea was pretty solid.

Not really irrational, considering how mediocre the story and character work was in that movie.

I think I'll miss his voice the most. It had such a crisp, soothing quality to it. RIP

The characters overall were not very memorable, but Emma Stone's character felt especially flat. She starts as the archetypal small town girl who wants to make it big in Hollywood…and eventually does? She's like if Naomi Watts' character from Mulholland Drive was played completely straight. She has no traits outside…

Donnie into Darkness

I got the same feeling. He kept talking about what a 'fraud' Inarritu is, but never cleared up exactly why he was making that claim.

The musical numbers were well done, and the colors were pretty. But the story, characters and dialogue were amateur hour at best. Considering how strong those elements were in Whiplash, La La Land was surprisingly mediocre.

The best part of La La Land for me. I also liked Start a Fire.

I think it's because The Dissolve posted a scathing review of it back when it came out. I'm not the biggest fan of Birdman or Iñarritu, mostly because he lacks subtlety and is too in love with the image of the 'Great, Suffering Artist', but the backlash that Birdman gets here is seriously ridiculous. It's an…

Yeah, I don't like this strange bias in the literary world regarding short fiction. Almost all the acknowledged 'Great' works are novels, and often novels of extraordinary length. Short fiction is only used to define a writer's career when they haven't written enough novels. It's stupid.

I have, and I quite enjoyed it.

Yeah, the future in this book has that worn-out, cyberpunk grime. But I meant like some of Dick's other works, it assumes we'd reach interplanetary civilization and have flying cars within the 1990s. For Dick's era, the '90s weren't that far away. But he still imagined it as this distant, technologically different and…

Haha nah, I agree with all of what you said.

Have you tried his short fiction? I think he's much stronger in that type of writing. The only PKD novel I loved (Not just liked) before Ubik was VALIS.

What did you think? What do you think of PKD overall?