Comments on: movies i liked last year

By: Download Emoticon

Download Emoticon — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:54:02 +0000

I love the geeky reverend of the Church of the Sun, such a detestable character!

By: sujan

sujan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:49:15 +0000

once? really? i could not stand that movie.

maybe it was the daniel clowes illustrated movie poster, but i was expecting a completely different movie from the savages. the trailers hinted at a dark comedy, but instead it was just really depressing and laura linney was straight up annoying as hell.

i enjoyed the last 15 minutes of juno but i hope diablo cody never writes anything ever again. even an amazon review.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:38:26 +0000

Praise for Grindhouse, and dissing on Juno. Yep, we pretty much have the exact opposite in opinion and taste.

Granted, Juno has its flaws, is silly, and you might need to be younger to laugh at the dialogue. But Jesus, Grindhouse was a f**kin JOKE. What a masturaborty affair for Tarantino. But I guess that can be said for blogs as well.

By: BIlly K

BIlly K — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:36:50 +0000

Throw Eastern Promises and its bath house scene in the mix.

By: yancey

yancey — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:43:12 +0000

good stuff. thanks for that link, tom.

man, back in 2002-2003 when i was full-time writing, i pitched so many places on wire pieces (slate, new york, new yorker, ew, village voice) and no one cared. i wuz robbed!

By: Tom Hilton

Tom Hilton — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:31:15 +0000

The folks at Heaven and Here might put in a claim as well. Speaking of Wire-blogging, did you see this post by Matt Yglesias? Interesting discussion in the comments, made still more interesting by Dave Simon himself showing up with a lengthy comment about how he sees the show.

By: yancey

yancey — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:24:21 +0000

We can settle for a tie, although I will just add the fact that right now I am reading David Simon’s book “Homicide” for the fourth or fifth time…

By: kinqaid

kinqaid — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:19:00 +0000

Yancey, you and I will have to duke it out for biggest Wire fan…though, I admit that I did not have blog dedicated to it. Does preaching about it at every possible opportunity count?

By: yancey

yancey — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:59:35 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been debating posting about the Wire on here. My old blog, now defunct and deleted, was almost entirely about that show from the second season on. I defy you to find a bigger fan!

By: Tom Hilton

Tom Hilton — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:18:15 +0000

On a smaller screen note: The WIre is back this Sunday! Best damn show on television.

A-Frigging-Men!

And Girl in the Cafe was wonderful.