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The burdens of ruling really wrecked’im.

When his character bit the dust, I lasted maybe one more seasons. But he’s had a hell of a run: Okja, Sorry to Bother You, and (especially) Burning. I heard Mayhem is a bloody good time, but I haven’t seen it yet.

When did nerds turn into the bully from an 80s movie?

Stop making idiots famous.

True but every current “Satan” or Devil running around the Marvel universe was considered the big guy himself at some point or another until a recon changed them up

I do wonder what people actually want in this situation. Do they want her to be tortured and put into squalid conditions? I’ve noticed there’s this weird sort of thing in this country where we want to lower the bar rather than raise it. So if a bunch of people are treated like shit, and some are treated better, the…

I will point out the inherent hypocrisy in the fact that most of us at AV Club are probably left-leaning who believe in prison reform and change, and yet we all laugh at Aunt Becky going to a place wherein she (fortunately? Unfortunately, according to the tone of the article?) won’t be brutally assaulted,…

And so we begin the introduction of Billy and Tommy, Wanda and Vision’s children by way of Chaos Magic, Demon Soul Shards, and good old fashioned reincarnation.

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If a cartoon show that gained prominence mostly from it’s scatological shock humor has had that big of an impact on the thinking of an entire generation then I think our society has much deeper problems . . .

I don’t think the entire story is a single daydream. I think it’s an amalgamation of all of the day dreams he’s had over the years. Her outfit changes based on eras while her changing jobs and names hint at the Janitor’s interests changing as he grows older. Likewise the age and health of parents along with the dog…

I assume you’ve never read the books.

it’s not bad for a bad movie, way better than Bad Times at the El Royale.

I’m surprised you said you were not invested in the Janitor character when the whole movie is a portrait of the guy, his hopes and dreams, his disappointments, his relationship with his parents, his sense of loss and loneliness... I thought the movie was really heartbreaking and compelling. Weirdly enough, I think…

I had the exact same feeling about the twist in the book that Dowd did, and I found the ending to this film to be much more affecting, essentially because Kaufman has so much more empathy for the janitor. The novel turns the janitor into a slasher film villain, when his story of isolation and loneliness is much sadder…

“It’s more West Wing: NASA”

Should I be that guy? OK, I’ll be that guy... but only because this is a Charlie Kaufman review!

I address the source material, which I have read, in the review. I also acknowledge the ways in which Kaufman radically transforms and expands upon it. Having seen the movie (twice!), I can assure you that he brings a strangeness to the material that is in not in the (also strange) novel.

It’s a “Lathe of Heaven” situation, from your dreams to our reality.