A lot of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is bullshit - Biskind is a champion elaborator and is also content to let his interviewees tell their stories without a lot in the way of corroboration.

Veronica Decides to Die, I think. I also keep almost watching it. I've also been almost tempted on several occasions to watch The Air I Breath, which seems to be one of those films with several stories that are thematically interconnected but the protagonists don't know it (a la Traffic or 21 Grams). It's meant to…

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It's okay - DDL is awesome and the whole opening bit is incredible - but it's more than a bit too flabby to be included amongst Scorsese's best, and LD's performance is also pretty problematic. I see it as his first-run with Scorsese, when he was probably more that a little overwhelmed and trying too hard. By the time…

It's okay - DDL is awesome and the whole opening bit is incredible - but it's more than a bit too flabby to be included amongst Scorsese's best, and LD's performance is also pretty problematic. I see it as his first-run with Scorsese, when he was probably more that a little overwhelmed and trying too hard. By the time…

Ha, I get what you're saying, but I tend to find British bleak a bit too maudlin (although I've probably read Great Expectations more than any other book, so there's that . . .).

Ha, I get what you're saying, but I tend to find British bleak a bit too maudlin (although I've probably read Great Expectations more than any other book, so there's that . . .).

I love the way in "A Moveable Feast" Hemingway goes on and on about what a dick Fitzgerald was ("what kind of a grown man can't even catch a train on time!"), then he reads Gatsby and decides he'll do anything in his power to help Fitzgerald succeed because the book is just that awesome.

I love the way in "A Moveable Feast" Hemingway goes on and on about what a dick Fitzgerald was ("what kind of a grown man can't even catch a train on time!"), then he reads Gatsby and decides he'll do anything in his power to help Fitzgerald succeed because the book is just that awesome.

It's not already so fucking bleak?

It's not already so fucking bleak?

Agree with your take on Gatsby and Luhrmann. Leo's hot and cold. He certainly doesn't make Gangs of New York "better."

Agree with your take on Gatsby and Luhrmann. Leo's hot and cold. He certainly doesn't make Gangs of New York "better."

For some reason that I don't really care to analyze or think too deeply about, the troika of Gigolo movies sandwiching The Hot Chick sort of worked for me. I was lonely, or something. Saw all three in the cinema, laughed a ton, never seen any of them again, nor do I wish to. It was a weird time.

For some reason that I don't really care to analyze or think too deeply about, the troika of Gigolo movies sandwiching The Hot Chick sort of worked for me. I was lonely, or something. Saw all three in the cinema, laughed a ton, never seen any of them again, nor do I wish to. It was a weird time.

I was pretty surprised not to see The Silver Linings Playbook on here. The ending may be a bit of a cop out, but up until that, it's its own kind of weird, dark, very good film.

I was pretty surprised not to see The Silver Linings Playbook on here. The ending may be a bit of a cop out, but up until that, it's its own kind of weird, dark, very good film.

I wouldn't call S3 underwhelming exactly, but I agree that as near-perfect as it is in terms of its great combination of excellent episodes and overall season arc, it doesn't quite hit the highs of 2 or 5. Overall, I'd put 3 ahead of 2 because 2 does also have quite a few blah moments, but I'm a 5er all the way - for…

I wouldn't call S3 underwhelming exactly, but I agree that as near-perfect as it is in terms of its great combination of excellent episodes and overall season arc, it doesn't quite hit the highs of 2 or 5. Overall, I'd put 3 ahead of 2 because 2 does also have quite a few blah moments, but I'm a 5er all the way - for…

Nah, Beer Bad's all right - drunk Buffy is pretty funny (spinning in her chair), and isn't that the episode where Willow gives Parker the business for being such a douche?