The $65 package (which apparently will increase to $142 after 12 mos.?!?!) DOESN’T EVEN INCLUDE A SINGLE PREMIUM CHANNEL! Again, who the fuck is this FOR?!

Perfectly stated.  WHO WANTS THIS?!  I hadn’t even thought of the fact that it’s only going to work on a single tv.  I mean, seriously, WHO THE FUCK WANTS THIS?!

I am of the vintage (age 46) that a Motley Crue concert would strike me as something I’d like to attend.  Until now.  I mean ... yikes!

hahaha what is HAPPENING here?!

I like it

or get younger? I’m 46, I don’t drink soda, I will pee before the movie ... and I will definitely have to pee during the movie. Because age.

It’s one of the best books, but man did they fuck up the movie!

commenting is closed today, everyone 

It’s practically a parody, right?!  In fact, if someone asked me to lampoon some academic talking about film, I don’t know if I could come up with something this over-the-top!

Color my mind blown.  Today is the day I know it’s -stain and not -stein.  TODAY.  At age 46.

Hi Ana - fellow migraine sufferer here. This is great stuff.

Hi Ana - fellow migraine sufferer here. This is great stuff.

The Yoda scenes ARE boring! I’m glad Tom had the balls to admit what we all know deep in our frozen hearts.

I’m fairly certain I’ve seen Oh God Book II more times than Empire.  How weird is that?!

We are the exact same age!  Want to be besties?

“I think it gave Disney a bit more courage to try a film like Tron a few years later.”

There are a handful of exceptions. I can’t believe, for instance, that The Ring wasn’t R. But they are mostly: (i) outright bad in any event; or (ii) neutered to the point that the one thing that might make them interesting has been sucked out of them.

agreed ... save for one aspect: FUCKING PG-13.  What’s with this trend?  I’m a horror movie buff and I’ll admittedly watch, and find some value, in just about anything in the genre.  But do you know what IMMEDIATELY turns me off to a horror movie?  A rating less than R.  UGH

Instant coffee has a specific sourness (I guess?) to it that sticks in my taste memory. I shiver just thinking about it. Drinking it black seems like a form of torture.

Great points. I recall those earlier comments, and the commenter(s) seemed hung up on the notion of “authenticity,” as if black was the way our founding fathers (or whatever) wanted us to drink it. I will reiterate here what I said then: this notion that “real” coffee drinkers take it black is a notion unsupported by…

I simply love Matt Pond. Was it Pitchfork who knocked one of his albums several years ago and said his voice sounds like it was shot through with vaseline? It’s such a weird statement that stuck with me because I think it’s probably accurate! They meant it negatively, but it’s the unique sound of his voice that is…