Huh. This is an interesting idea. Do you have really good noise-canceling headphones? Given the volume in an average theater today, I would think that unless you've got great headphones, you could only drown out the movie by cranking up the volume to a point where you'd be risking your hearing.

This.

I didn't "love" it, I gave it a B and praised the action scenes.

Not quite that it's late, but that time-prices have suddenly gone up, so survival is unaffordable. And just to make it MORE heavy-handed, we're told several times over that the rich manipulate time-prices in order to make sure a certain percentage of people die. And then we see it happen. Repeatedly.

Vincent Kartheiser actually has a fairly significant role and a lot of screen time. Matt Bomer only has a couple of scenes, but he's the guy who gives TImberlake a century, so he's very prominent.

You know, I thought this was going to be heavily based on Logan's Run, but apart from people dying young when their time runs out, it isn't, particularly.

I really meant to mention all the experimental reels I've seen over the years that were created by animators painting directly onto film. Not something I'll miss per se, but certainly the kind of crazy project that's very different in a digital environment. At that point, it's basically just computer animation.

Here's the thing, @avclub-e1e84d33778737c0a16ede94d51f3752:disqus : I was fine with the Kate/Jack/Sawyer triangle early on, when it was about three people trying to navigate their mutual attraction and antipathy and massive, flashback-inducing personal issues.

I found the Roslin/Adama romance deeply disturbing because it further eroded the pretense of a political system of checks and balances; at least when they were opposed to each other, there was a chance that more than one point of view would be represented. Whereas by the end, they were basically a little elitist…

True, but whatever she was up to post-Angel seemed to be the romance fans always bitched about the most on the show. Maybe that's because so many people were hard-core "Angel + Buffy OTP OMG" types, or maybe it was because Riley was boring and much of the Spike romance was repetitive and tremendously angsty and…

Hm. Looking into it, we requested but never received copies of the Morgenstern and Whitehead books. It's too late for the Morgenstern, but we might be able to get the Whitehead in. We have the Murakami book, and there'll be a review of that coming up. The Eugenides review is on the way.

I read it, and pretty much agree with everything Kevin said. Granted, I was never a huge fan of Palahniuk's gross-out side, and there's plenty of that here.

I know. And the other big demon is artificial need: You need the new product RIGHT NOW or you're BEHIND THE CURVE and you're LOSING and everyone else is GETTING AHEAD OF YOU. Which drives capitalism and all, but it just seems so unnecessary. I mean, we have a nine-story central library in Chicago full of books. I will…

Sort of.

Is this a large, established category? How many "Nice Try, Asshole" movies are there? I guess all the "Final Destination" movies qualify. And a lot of modern horror in general.

Aw, but they're so happy (finally!) at the end of "The Big Snit." Their argument is finally resolved, they're in love, they're in heaven, and they seem to be oblivious to the fact that they're dead. What's sad about that?

Yeah, agreed, "Treasure" is an all-time great one. "Rififi" too.

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That is one creepy story. Thanks for the link.

The title did briefly give us some confusion in the office, due to me asking Scott "I sent the thing over. Did you edit the thing? It goes up tomorrow." I wasn't trying to sound vague, it just came out that way.