All Star memes seem far more prevalent than Smooth memes. Which is fine by me, as I’d prefer for Santana to be remembered for his good music.

Shakespeare in Love is thoroughly middlebrow, containing nothing remarkable at all. It’s “The King’s Speech” of the late 90s.

Since people are going to be linking to various songs, I’m going to be the hipster that instead links to a poem (that I hadn’t heard of before he died):

I know he’s not normally a genre guy and I just had the feeling that he wasn’t fully committing to it. Although mostly just that it was too complicated for a standard crime feature and should have been a miniseries, as noted above.

That does remind me that Elle Fanning seems have done well with recurring performances in Sophia Coppola’s films, but Dakota hasn’t gotten the same auteur boost. It’s possible I’m just ignorant of her filmography though.

Night Moves starred Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg & Peter Saarsgard. The Kelly Reichardt films that Williams has been in are Wendy & Lucy, Meeks Cutoff and Certain Women.

The serial killer usually isn’t the protagonist of those shows.

If we separate the One Child Policy from male preference, then we would say that the latter without the former would lead to lots of female neglect. Add in OPC and the latter leads to a lot of infanticide. OPC without any preference would lead to a roughly equal sex ratio. OPC with male preference leads to a…

I don’t know if that’s actually true. China hasn’t taken part in that many wars recently.

That was the first Cronenberg I saw, so I wonder if my opinion of it is inflated relative to someone who’d already seen Videodrome.

I think King has said that Darabont’s ending is better. It’s also arguably more hopeful than King’s!

Per the simulation argument, you are probably already in a matrix, but that’s the only “reality” you care for. The reason I don’t want to be a battery is because human beings are horribly inefficient batteries and would be quickly thrown out to be replaced by something more sensible :)

A high ratio of males to females will result in lower population growth.

Neo is a hacker who gets godlike powers, so it’s somewhat utopian for him.

I believe she’s actually of Kurdish descent.

I’m still annoyed by those frogs.

Not really, because his character decides against sleeping with someone because they’re underage.

Unlike the AVC writers, I don’t find Tom sympathetic at all. He’s just unpleasant to spend time with. My favorite Ripley movie is The American Friend because the protagonist is the sap Ripley tricks into doing some of his dirty work (Ripley’s Game covers the same material but with an emphasis on showing how cool…

Mima isn’t much of a character in Perfect Blue. Things just sort of happen around her while she’s carried forward by the currents of her profession.

Does the dog actually do anything, like keep those dang hippie kids off his lawn?