For sure. I was 15 at the time and I’m right there with you on this.

“I found the cast of side characters so charismatic and fleshed out, I couldn’t help but think how much I would enjoy a TV show that let all of them have more screen time and storylines of their own.”

This is a great piece on a flat-out fantastic film. It was a WILDLY better film than fucking Rain Man, which won the Best Picture nod that year, and was frankly much better than every other nominee (which included The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, and Mississippi Burning).  

I’m going to reveal a shitty thing about me: I stopped reading not long after Paul and Jessica escape and meet the Freemen. As much as I loved the book prior to that moment, I couldn’t get into it after that point for some reason.

Here’s my point: the original is incredibly nuanced and has a very specific point of view (and a very uniquely acerbic sense of humor). “Remaking” it by dumbing down the very things that made the original so unique is not really remaking it at all. It’s insulting the good name of the original. You say the remake “makes…

Thank you for your compelling critique

“The film could have taken the easiest route of tracing over its predecessor entirely ...”

fuck you gimme gobots

hahaha you can’t make this shit up! There are so many LONG damn interludes that it becomes really difficult to remember where you are in the actual story.

Look, I get it ... people have different tastes. My annoyance is with the inference in the original comment that the book ought not be celebrated in “pop culture” or whatever. That’s different than personally not liking it. It is and should be recognized as a brilliant and historically relevant piece of literature.

Is it cool not to like Kerouac now? Fuck that. Truly one of the great American authors.  This isn’t open for debate 

I’m with you 100% ... Tom Sawyer is the better book by far. My recollection is that we were assigned Huck Finn and I read Tom Sawyer on my own (we are nerd twins!).

If you are committed to trying to power through some Pynchon, I highly recommend Inherent Vice.

There are bits that are brilliant and compelling, but they are lost in a morass of utter nonsense. It’s so hard to parse. I’ve made it through maybe 75%(?), but what has shut me down on both attempts is the dull section regarding Slothrop’s affair with Margherita, followed immediately by the interlude regarding Franz…

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Another surprisingly good release today?  ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead.  Say what?!  Yes.  Their new one is quite good.

Except there’s no fucking way this dude wants to keep that kia even longer than he’s already committed. He’s riddled with buyer’s remorse and just wants out! And also he doesn’t know how math works.

The floor was, is, and will always be lava.

I’m going to be pedantic. “Elder millennial”?! Spencer Krug is 42 years old. He’s squarely Gen X.

I was going to give Josh shit for calling it “Hatfield-Jackson” instead of Hartsfield, but then I went to the website and I see it was their mistake, not his.