Considering he named his production company A Band Apart after Bande à part, I don't think a super-literal reference is out of left field.

Sounds like it would strip a lot of the dramatic reveals out. I'd be fine if the "inciting incident" was all placed at the front, but what about the training stuff and the attempted assassination by that woman with a shotgun? that stuff all feels better where it is.

So you wouldn't be mad that someone shot you in the face and left you for dead? I think the vengeance is still justified, and it adds an extra layer of anxiety running through her vengeance on the last few members of her old posse because you're thinking - what the fuck is going on with that daughter? Will she be…

On the outset, it looks like a war movie. But internally, it's all period peace. Crazy (ultimately unnecessary) period details are rife in the movie.

The last and only time I'll watch Once Upon a Time in America was when I was home from school, sick senior year of high school.

I'd like it if they implemented the ending of Halo Reach, kind of. Just a dying man's fight to the death, with you dying meaning the end of the game.

Yah, he made a giant joke out of the whole scenario and rode it from that episode into Season 2. It's brilliant.

I'd have liked a stripped-down ending in a field. It certainly worked for Looper.

Did you know that the spider is the fiercest killer in the animal kingdom?

The point is that we're given no other indicators of why she'd turned this way, other than "this bitch is crazy." The plot would've worked much better had they kept it linear - Phillippe Nahon is terrifying in the role.

One of the more obvious implications is that being a lesbian will drive you crazy. The narrative they were building already, with a gender switch for the lead to a woman (and mostly treating it like any other relationship) is fairly progressive, but then the ending shits the bed.

Thanks for the warning, I appreciate it. I've definitely seen massive, heavy cars spin out in intersections before, so I know you still have to drive like a not-lunatic. But after driving a tiny Scion through 7 or so Chicago winters, I already feel better just knowing its there when I need it. That thing used to skid…

Thanks for being the first Sublime-defender so far I can kind of get behind.

It's weird, it's like music brings out emotional reactions in people. Is he supposed to like Sublime even if their fans have thoroughly shit the bed for him? He doesn't like it, and he's messing around trying to break down why.

Considering Sublime has a huge cult surrounding, I don't know why people feel the need to defend them to death. This guy is throwing pebbles at a brick wall. Your band is gonna be just okay.

I hate a lot of white people shit, and I take on the milky sheen of a piece of printer paper. You're allowed to talk shit about your own people because you understand their situation quite acutely, and can thus judge them more fairly.

I live in the Chicago area and very recently bought a Toyota with AWD, so now there's this sour, totally alien thought I have where I'm like "I can't wait for winter so I can see if this works."

Larry's arc purely serves the purpose of throwing obstacles in Piper's way. We get to see how Piper deals with being totally impotent to stop her former lover from running off with her best friend while she's in prison, something that has great dramatic value.

You underestimate how taxing the labor of opening up a second tab is.

I'll suck your space cock for a thousand space bucks.