My feeling is the opposite, possibly because I was spoiled for this and not the other. This is a less impactful change, and the lack of involvement of some real people plays into that. I suppose the Manson family also fit more easily into a mockery of hippiedom, whereas you really have to go all in to make a comedy…

Reservoir Dogs doesn’t. Hateful 8 ends with a pyhrric victory (which also forms the end of one subplot in Inglourious Basterds, although that was less reactive).

Is there a specific person you can point us to, or anywhere this story has been published?

Maqus overrunning a nationalist garrison after the nationalists won the Spanish Civil War was also a bit of historical revisionism/fantasy. Not on the scale of killing Hitler, of course.

Rick Dalton is more pathetic than scumbag, and most of the film is about him.

There were no prominent black actors in Reservoir Dogs, but it still contained the slur in 100% white scenes.

I thought the cutaways to Rick’s acting should have been tightened up, but the trip to Spahn ranch was an effective bit of tension which is otherwise in the film lacking up until the end.

Rick is clearly the lead, while Cliff is the non-protagonist hero. I agree he’s surprisingly lacking in inner life, and in most stories even supporting characters (including Sancho Panza, but also ones of intermediate prominence) have more of that, which is one of the things we judge them by.

I just saw & enjoyed it, but I was unaware anyone complained specifically that they didn’t get to see a Tarantino-directed version of Tate’s murder (complaints about historical revisionism are not exactly the same thing).

It’s a little known fact that he was actually born without a face, but it’s added in post-production via CGI.

I think it’s a stretch to say that the show is currently based on some German novel since they (from what I can tell) adapted the whole plot in the first season, and it’s set somewhere else. The second season was better than I expected, particularly since the recurring Bill Pullman character is not that interesting…

Just to be clear, only my first two sentences there were about Dexter, while the rest were about Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire.

Blue Ruin & Cold in July were both good movies (particularly the former), but neither was really concerned with addiction. A rural neo-noir which does touch somewhat on the intersection of drugs & poverty is Winter’s Bone, which also had a female protagonist (Granik’s feature debut, Down to the Bone, also had those…

I’m glad it confirmed that I’m right about Jon’s sentence to the Wall sticking, as he hasn’t just immediately abandoned the Watch to be a wildling.

I had the good judgement to quit Dexter after season four. That unfortunately included the awful season 3. The first four seasons of this show are its best, with #3 being my personal favorite while others favor #4. It nose-dived in quality with season 5, and even if became a better executed show was never as well…

“one of the worst Metallica tracks”

With those waits of more than an hour, it sound like listeners are getting dangerously under-Segered. Car commercials need to pick up the slack!

This is news? I think it was first announced roughly a year ago.

My recollection was that if you gave an artist two thumbs downs and no thumbs up, they were banned from your station, which was very convenient early on when I wanted to ban some artists whose entire output I dislike. I’ve actually held off on giving some down thumbs because there are artists with one song I like, and…

Has Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band?