Hey, at least the realtor moved the gravestones for you.

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I didn't enjoy hating him. I enjoyed when he left. He was such a weasely, over-the-top exaggerated character. I much more enjoyed Winchester as a villain, because he sometimes beat BJ and Hawkeye, and he was so calmly, despicably entertaining. A much more interesting character, and a much more worthy foil.

That's not actually accurate. There are a couple of cases where the film directly quotes the book, but only in brief.

Huh! That interpretation hadn't even occurred to me.

Mostly just this one guy who seems eerily obsessed with it.

Well, in theory, Spoiler Space is for people who've seen the movie and want to talk about how it ends. I originally put in a bunch more detail, and then thought it was excessive because I was talking to people who'd already seen the film. But if you really want to know:
1) Wes Bentley is a red herring and isn't the…

I feel you. I didn't stick with the series nearly that long, but I was doggedly reading all his other series too (except Bio Of A Space Tyrant; I never got past the opening rape-a-thon), and at one point I probably owned 25 Piers Anthony books. The one that broke me of the habit was "But What Of Earth?" which was a…

I'm always amused by comments that start off "no one will read this," because of how often I read it.

An Oscar nomination—and moreso, a win—absolutely drives more people to see a film. There are a lot of interesting analyses out there. Here's one to start with:

I'd originally considered "Certified Copy" for this list, but I think ultimately it's more occupied with the present, and the story the two of them are unfolding in the present, than anything else. The whole idea of the film suggests that the past and the future are equally mutable: It doesn't have that sense of fear…

It was made in 2010 but released in the States in 2011, so it'd theoretically be up for American awards this year, and it should have been on this list.

Agreed that you don't have to apologize for liking "Midnight In Paris." It's a fun movie. I got that plastered-grin thing every time Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway appeared or spoke. I do wish the ending was more nuanced, and more convincing, though — "Now the main character will deliver a speech telling you the…

For me, Melancholia doesn't quite fit the pattern because there's much less concern with the past — it's entirely about the future, and the complete lack thereof. And the ending isn't ambiguous and sad so much as cataclysmic. But I do agree that it's a film that had no place in the upbeat run of films this year given…

That's terrific. I can easily see watching that movie when young and later being convinced it was just a nightmare, given how dreamlike it is, and how horrifying, and how weird for a cartoon about cute funny little round people.

"Brazil" has a pretty viciously bleak ending too. I've long wanted to do an inventory of films with entirely ambiguous, you-make-the-call endings, but the entire thing would be one big spoiler. Though I'm not sure that should stop us. Maybe I should pitch it again.

There's a thread above where someone else specifically asked if this would be a good film for his 4-year-old girl.

Glad to hear it! We revisited VAMPIRES IN HAVANA a few years ago; it's so ramshackle and ridiculous in so many ways, but it's a really fun film.

The Totoro dub is similarly dumbed down just a little — I most remember that when Mei is missing and Satsuki is running around looking for her, she runs into the boy, who mentions that there are people gathered at the pond. Satsuki freaks out and runs there, with the boy calling after her that it's no big deal, no one…

Frankly, Ask The A.V. Club taught us that *anything* can freak out a small child (minor-key music, a shadow on a wall, characters who change shape or have weirdly shaped faces) if it's the first time they've encountered such a thing. Scott's daughter was traumatized by a monster-shaped shadow briefly glimpsed in the…