“I’d love to shit all over the USSR and China and Cuba...”

If 1996 was 34 years ago, I’m way older than I thought ...

oof that is true.  Let’s call it a draw (of shit)

Shakespeare in Love. UGH. It did start a run, didn’t it? Think about it, prior to Shakespeare in Love I think I could get behind most of the prior winners (from the 1960s forward), other than maybe Rain Man and Driving Miss Daisy. But after SiL, we had these beauties: American Beauty, Chicago, Million Dollar Baby,…

I’m starring you because I agree 100% here.  Big night for Quentin.  

The article you link to is a good read, but it’s interesting that the takeaway from the folks involved is that its failure was due to it being a debacle. I’m not sure that’s really the case. In my opinion, the movie failed not because it’s a big, messy debacle (hell, sometimes that can be fun) but rather because it’s…

For sure.  Was watching live as well and saying, loudly, “HANG UP ON BLITZER, ALREADY!”

I’m giving you a star because I recall reading this very riveting article a couple years ago, and it is truly every detail you would ever need to know about this crime.  That said, I am not sure the article “removes any need” to watch what sounds like an equally-riveting documentary on the same subject.

I feel like we are kindred spirits on this point.  I found everything about this perfect ending to be so profoundly ... human.

No comment on Destroyer’s new album out today (Have We Met)? Come on AV Club!

Excited for this, for sure.  Really loved The Blackcoat’s Daughter.  That said, I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed that it’s PG-13

Tough call for sure. You can’t go wrong either way. 

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