From Roger Ebert. I’ve seen only one of them- Greenberg.
I bought Inception via On Demand last night and fell asleep about 20 minutes in.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?
Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.
We are aware of all internet traditions.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!
I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
You cannot shame the shameless.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
Nothing worth doing is easy.
I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
Good lord, these people are nuts.
This blog will pay for itself.
Rosalita
Bummer re Inception. I have that on my list from Netflix…
BTW, I tried using their ‘streaming only’ option. Not the biggest selection of movies in that format. Disappointed.
dirk
Heh. Or did you?
clone12
D’oh! looks like I am too late for a self-referential inception joke
Tokyokie
I saw the list and wondered where Animal Kingdom was. And why El Secreto de Sus Ojos wasn’t listed higher.
JeromeC
That’s very meta- of you, Mr. Cole.
Tokyokie
@clone12: You snooze, you lose.
Jay in Oregon
I saw TRON: Legacy this weekend and loved it.
It feels like what TRON would have been were it written today.
CaptainFwiffo
I can state without reservation that Mr. Ebert is wrong about inception. That movie was terrible. It aimed low, and still missed. Every other movie ever made about dreaming did a better job, including all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
handy
@CaptainFwiffo:
You never saw Dreamscape, did you.
New Yorker
I think this quote means this post should have the “get off my lawn you damn kids” tag.
I loved “Inception”.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
See Winter’s Bone. It’s probably the first movie I’ve seen that gets rurl, white people “right”. Typically, movies still make all the actors look to “nice”.
For example, watch “Boys Don’t Cry”, then watch the very crappy documentary about the murder. The latter interviews most of the NE locals. Then compare that to the Hollywood treatment. Not even close.
Winter’s Bone is dead one. Amazing film with even a little twisted Coen Brothers-esque bit toward the end.
chopper
man, you’re old.
nevsky42
Saw Greenberg this past weekend; Stiller was great in it but this movie was full of very uncomfortable moments. I almost turned it off in the last twenty minutes it was getting so painful…
Ken J.
The three films from Ebert’s list which I highly recommend are:
– Winter’s Bone (possibly my favorite of the year, very scary without showing too much on-screen violence, Jennifer Lawrence is outstanding)
– The Secret In Their Eyes (the setup rape scene is not something one probably wants to watch though)
– I Am Love (I have to see it again to pay closer attention to how the John Adams music is used throughout)
Violet
Half the films listed have only just opened. In my neck of the woods some of them aren’t even here yet. I hate how “good” and “serious” films get backloaded to all open at the end of the year. Something about Oscar positioning or something.
I saw Greenberg too. Was underwhelmed. Second half of the year been too busy to go see films.
John W.
If you fall asleep during Inception, you’re not watching it loud enough. Good or bad, it’s not a quiet movie.
I, for one, loved it. I thought it was the best movie about dreams I’ve seen. The central conceit in the movie that you buy or don’t is that dreams feel real while you’re in them.
Martin
@chopper: Nah, he was just taken in by the spooning action with Lily.
Oh, wait, that doesn’t disprove your point.
Anyway, I hadn’t even heard of half of these films. Having kids really puts you in a whole other reality.
John Cole
@JeromeC: I’m glad a few of you caught the joke.
geg6
Haven’t looked at the list yet, but if you like a great documentary film, you can’t do any better than “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.”
Saw it over the weekend and loved, loved, loved it. She’s a very brave woman and interesting, too.
Bondo
Of the ones I’ve seen on his list (Rabbit Hole is the one I most want to see that I haven’t):
Agree: The Social Network (my #6)
Winter’s Bone (my #3)
Inception (my #2)
The Kids Are All Right (very funny)
127 Hours
Never Let Me Go
Disagree: Black Swan (for its revolting use of “therapeutic” sexual assault)
The Secret In Their Eyes (contrived and boring)
The Ghost Writer
Greenberg
Solitary Man (just no character development)
Suffern ACE
@geg6: I forgot Joan Rivers. I saw it the same day I saw Toy Story III, so both those films run together.
evap
Another vote for Winter’s Bone. One of the producers is the sister of a good friend of mine, which is kind of cool. I hope it wins lots of Oscars (and other awards).
Bondo
BTW, I suppose I should mention that Fish Tank is the best film of 2010. Now showing on the Sundance Channel (on Demand).
Ailuridae
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
Winter’s Bone is excellent and indeed gets rural white America quite right. Also The American is pretty great with Clooney at his absolute best.
Sputnik_Sweetheart
Honestly, I thought Inception was overrated. I wish they had gone farther with the dream within a dream concept and made it much more surreal and trippy.
Southern Beale
Oh my God. “Greenberg” was in the list? We saw it. I thought it was the worst movie of my life. The title character was insufferable. I just didn’t want to be in the theater with him after 10 minutes. I kept hoping the character would grow or change or something but he just stayed a dick.
Pixie79
Greenberg was the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my life. WORST EVER.
Don
My wife and I saw Inception in the theater and wish we had slept through it. As “what is reality?” goes I’d rank it down there with some conversations I’ve listened to while smoking weed. Even when high I didn’t find them compelling.
Not to say the subject can’t be examined in an interesting way – I liked Greg Egan’s book “Permutation City” – but Inception wasn’t it for me.
Amir_Khalid
No best of the year list can be definitive, but a “Top 10 movies of 2010” list that leaves out Toy Story 3, as Ebert’s does, has a gaping hole in it. Ebert has an admitted bias against 3D, and he always knocks at least one full star off a movie’s grade if he sees it in 3D. Unless it’s Avatar.
Inception is a fascinating construction, with its multiple levels of story (limbo, three dream levels, the film’s reality, even the viewer’s reality) but its characters kind of left me cold. For me it’s a movie to admire, rather than one to fall in love with.
Southern Beale
OH MY GOD. It gets worse! I just clicked through and saw “I Am Love” on the list. Jesus. The husband still hasn’t forgiven me for making him see that one. It was also insufferable, in a melodramatic, overwrought sort of way.
Best thing about that movie was Tilda Swinton’s wardrobe.
Southern Beale
OK I also thought Inception was empty, at its core. The story was weak. The effects were great but after 15 minutes I’m like, that was cool but now get me back to the point of it all. If you don’t have a compelling story, forget it, you’ve lost me.
Near as I can tell, the whole point of why they were trying to go so super deep into the subconscious to implant a memory was to compell some guy to sell his company? Or not sell his company, I don’t even remember but that shows you how minor the whole thing was to the whole film. Who gives a fuck if he sells his company? We barely know who this guy is.
And don’t tell me Leonardo DiCaprio’s unresolved love issues with Marion Cotillard was the point, it wasn’t, it was a subplot. And don’t tell me the “architecture of dreams” is the story because it’s not. It’s the world. It’s not the plot.
The entire structure of the film doesn’t hold up. It’s basically an effects picture, nothing more. So was Harry Potter.
SiubhanDuinne
I am panting to see “The King’s Speech” based on everything I’ve read and heard about it. But in metro Atlanta? Not a whisper about when it may come here, or where. It still isn’t listed in the “coming feature attractions” or whatever the AJC calls that column, and I’ve googled it six ways from Sunday and still can’t find anything at all that says when or where it will be here. I love Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush and Derek Jacobi; am not a big fan of Helena Bonham-Carter, although having her play the Queen Mum (long before she was Queen Mum, of course) strikes me as inspired casting. Anyhow, if any of my fellow Atlantans who frequent this blog have heard anything about screening dates/theatres, I’d love to know, kthxbai.
Southern Beale
@Pixie79:
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who saw Greenberg and came out wanting to wash my brain with bleach.
Speaking of bleach, we did see “127 Hours” Friday night. Excellent but two nights in a row I woke up thinking of … the scene. You know, the one where I hid my eyes but damn that soundtrack let me know every second what was happening. Brilliant film score, BTW. Anyway … good film but it stays with you.
Bondo
@Sputnik_Sweetheart:
I hear the “they didn’t make the dreams dreamy enough” complaint about Inception a lot, but surreal dreams would have directly contradicted what the film was going for. We see with Ariadne’s introduction that doing loopy things tips off the subconscious more rapidly…seeing as their goal was keeping the subconscious tamped down, having trippy dreams wouldn’t have fit. Also, I’m not sure about you, but my dreams aren’t very trippy…I think the really surreal dreams are an artifact of films as an excuse for that kind of stuff more than based on any reality about dreaming.
@Southern Beale:
The main point of Inception, as should be interesting to readers of this blog, is about the way in which ideas are formed and how new information is bounced around and warped by deep underlying frames. I think Inception without really talking about it is a great presentation of why people believe weird things in politics and policy.
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir_Khalid:
That’s very well put, and expresses how I felt about it. I did enjoy the sfx, but I don’t remember one important thing about a single one of the characters.
john b
Of that list, I thought Inception was okay. Winter’s Bone and 127 Hours were probably my favorite of that bunch.
I enjoyed The Kids Are All Right for what it was.
I just saw Black Swan this weekend and wasn’t very impressed, but my girlfriend really liked it. I also didn’t really like All Is Love (though I loved its music and sets/scenery).
Tsulagi
@John Cole: Caught it too, but thought the odds were greater you were being literal. Can’t say I loved Inception, but thought it was excellent.
Will put in a plug for El secreto de sus ojos/The Secret in Their Eyes on Ebert’s list. Loved that one. Title might lead you to think it’s a chick flick, but it’s that and much more. Strong elements of determination with a bit of revenge. Liked the ending.
This weekend watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played With Fire, part of a trilogy, streamed from Netflix. Good movies.
MattF
I saw The Ghost Writer, and it was excellent. Yeah, Polanski is a creep… but he also happens to be a great director, and this is the best movie he’s made in years.
Mary G
@SiubhanDuinne:
I am going to see “The King’s Speech” on Thursday; it is only playing a few places in Orange County, CA. One of the good things about living here. Usually they open them wider after a week or two. It looks fantastic, I can hardly wait.
Southern Beale
@Bondo:
No, that wasn’t the main point. That may have been “a” point but if that was supposed to be the MAIN point they should have made the film about how and who developed this “let’s go into dreams and implant ideas” technology to begin with. That would have been more interesting. They told the story wrong. My writer’s retreat group would have torn this thing to shreds if it had been presented in manuscript form.
Instead we’re dropped into this world where the technology already exists and we’re expected to care about some exploit, some caper. And we don’t. The characters are cold, the plot is thin, all they have is a concept and effects.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G: Oh, I hope you post about it after you’ve seen it. I’ll be checking the threads :-)
demkat620
@SiubhanDuinne: I want to see that also. Loooooooooove Colin Firth.
Inception was really good. But I think Christopher Nolan is a genius. I watch The Dark Knight when ever its on and Memento was great.
I love a good action flick that thinks outside of the box.
quaint irene
Tho I haven’t seen it yet , I’d say ‘Voyage of the Dawn Treader.’ Mainly cause it’s my favorite of the Narnia books.
“It’s Complicated’ was a cute story, ruined by Meryl Streep’s continuous smirking and giggling. What was she doing??
Definitely gonna rent ‘Winter’s Bone.’
Montysano
Inception was OK, but it just made me want to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind again. Yeah, I know, one is about dreams and one is about memory.
Mrs. Monty and I stumbled onto Good Hair on HBO last night. Very funny, unexpectedly fascinating. Highly recommended.
Maxwel
@Rosalita
Yes, only old and/or obscure movies are available to be streamed.
demkat620
Am I the only one who enjoyed Sherlock Holmes? Didn’t that come out this year?
That’s a fun movie. That’s another director I enjoy. Guy Ritchie. I liked Layer Cake and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Southern Beale
@Montysano:
Oh yeah I loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Now THAT was a great film!
Southern Beale
@demkat620:
Sherlock Holmes came out in 2009.
JPL
Jennifer Lawrence was great in Winter’s Bone and deserved her golden globe nomination. The Disappearance of Alice Creed should have made the list before the Ghost Writer.
I am hearing great things about The King’s Speech but as SiubhanDuinne mentioned, it’s not in the Atlanta area yet.
Bhall35
Inception was terrible. A true “Emperor Has No Clothes” moment for the culture. Full stop.
@Bondo: Sorry that all you got from Black Swan was being offended by “therapeutic sexual assault.” That is an aggressively narrow-minded interpretation of the movie (or at least those events in it). But then again, you liked Inception.
demkat620
@Southern Beale: Ah. Thans. I never get top the movie theater anymore unless its with the kids.
We did see Harry Potter over Thanksgiving. I enjoyed that too. My son wants to see Tron but I am undecided.
Montysano
@demkat620:
Loved it. Guy Ritchie’s films are a real pleasure.
Since we’re Coen fanatics, the whole Monty clan will be in the theater Xmas day for True Grit. One of our best days evah was going, completely unprepared, to see O Brother on opening day and laughing until we hurt.
Also: I never pass up a chance to say that if you’ve never seen A Serious Man (seems that many did not), do so. It’s among my favorite Coen Bros. films.
Mike in NC
It has got to be the worst POS that Ben Stiller has done to date, and that’s saying a lot.
Linda Featheringill
To go with your movies, bourbon balls.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/5278762092/
These were made with dark chocolate cocoa and are almost black. But they are formidable!
demkat620
@Montysano: It’s good? I’ll check it out.
The first five minutes of Raising Arizona, IMHO, are some of the best on film.
I never miss that movie when it is on.
“I’m walking in here on my knees, Ed, a free man proposing”
Maody
the thing about Inception that I liked, as a visual artist, were the special effects from one dream layer to the next – crashing buildings –> glass breaking –> water splashing for example, not accurate I know, but it’s hard to describe layering of breaking apart – that’s what made it for me.
The Kings Speech Speech, Winter’s Bone and Black Swan are on my list of must sees. Why is Social Network uber # 1? I refuse to go see it. Anyone else seen it?
demkat620
I have a confession to make. I love having a 12 year old boy.
Now I can go to all the comic book movies and action stuff that I love without people looking at me like I am a squirrel.
What’s the B-J consensus on the Green Hornet? I want it to be good.
Montysano
@demkat620:
The Coens are IMHO the modern masters of their craft. In A Serious Man, the story, the acting, cinematography, set design, music, it’s all just wonderful. The whole movie looks like it was shot on ’60s era Kodachrome slide film. When they’re at 75% of their best game, the Coens are better than most. When they’re hitting on all cylinders, no one can touch them. Which is why we’re so pumped about True Grit.
Chat Noir
@Montysano:
The husband and I watched it as well and we concur with your recommendation. I’m always bitching about my hair (especially when it’s humid because I get horrible frizz) but I will do so less now after seeing “Good Hair.” Thoroughly enjoyed it and now I understand a little better what African American women go through with their hair.
lol
No top 10 list is complete without TRON: Legacy.
sw
@Mary G: Holy schnikey, Batman. A few weeks ago I couldn’t find this movie – The King’s Speech – anyplace but NY and California. Now I see it’s playing in DC! Whoopee!
Suffern ACE
Movies I’d put on my list, but weren’t mentioned: A Single Man, Get Low, Exit throught the Gift Shop, and “The Good, the Bad, and the Weird.”
I have a soft spot for Kick*Ass and Scott Pilgrim, although I can’t mention that I enjoyed those out loud in serious company.
The movie I least liked this year was “Please Give.”
The King’s Speech is very good, as was Winter’s Bone. But they will make plenty of best of year lists.
JPL
@Suffern ACE: Christmas Day we always watch a movie together. Last year I purchased 500 days of Summer. This year I got Scott Pilgrim. Thanks for mentioning it, it makes me feel better.
Just Some Fuckhead
I loved Operation Endgame which by all accounts completely sucks so I can’t be trusted to weigh in on what is a good film.
Roger Moore
@lol:
FTFY. It was a passable movie if you like special effects and explosions, but there was no there there. Tron Legacy is like Inception‘s little brother. It’s targeting the same general audience- people who want a popcorn movie with intellectual pretensions- but made by less talented filmmakers. Oh, and it’s painfully derivative of the original without any of the original’s flair.
Legalize
I loved Inception. Loved loved. I didn’t see much else this year. Frankly, I’m starting to despise going to the movies. The only other thing I saw that gave me a kick was the Crazies.
Jeez, I forgot about Kick Ass. I dug that one too.
Southern Beale
Husband made me watch Kick Ass. I hated it. He thought it “kicked ass.” Ha ha so fucking funny.
Montysano
@Legalize:
Certain movies need to be seen on the big screen, but paying $9.00 and then sitting through 20 minutes of commercials is hard to take.
Joe Lisboa
Heh, too funny. The wife and I just two days ago were debating renting Inception on demand as well, but decided we just were not up to it. So we settled on the Michael Cera vehicle Youth in Revolt, joking that it was likely going to open with a scene of his character (presumably a virgin) masturbating, as he seems to have carved out a particular niche. Well, SPOILER ALERT, but yeah: we were spot on.
I did like the idea of him (Cera) subverting his (type-)casting by also playing a nihilistic version of himself alongside his now-somewhat tired bit. I gave it a B / B-minus. It was mildly entertaining and at least Zach G. was in it. Also a host of other notables make appearances, and usually to good effect.
Amir_Khalid
Since we’re talking about going to the movies, is anyone else here bothered by cellphone users in the theater? I don’t know how it is over there, but around here (Kuala Lumpur) there’s always some genius taking out his/her phone about every ten minutes to check for text messages. In a dark theater, that cellphone screen looks as bright (and distracting) as a freaking flashlight. I’ve even seen people answering a voice call — yes, while the movie was playing, and not talking softly either.
Southern Beale
I’ve determined that we see a shitload of movies. Ah well.
If anyone gets HD-Net, the TV channel, a lot of these movies were available free one time only on HDNet. They have this thing where movies are available on-Demand but one night only it’s free. Don’t get how or why they do it but they do. “Monsters” was one on HD-Net.
Southern Beale
@Amir_Khalid:
That’s a rarity here, but it happens. It’s a HUGE no no. Lots of peer pressure against that. You WILL get yelled at. And there are tons of commercials and messages before the movie telling you to SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONE & NO TEXTING during the film.
I’ve had a bigger problem with people taking their fucking infants to the movies. Just don’t do it, people. I wrote about one especially horrible incident here.
Cacti
Speaking of best films of 2010…
I have very high expectations for the Coen Bros. adaptation of True Grit.
Hope it doesn’t disappoint.
Citizen_X
I clicked on this thread just to make sure that Winter’s Bone was mentioned, and it looks like a dozen people got here first. But, yeah, it’s all that. Really creepy, atmospheric, hillbilly noir.
But still: nobody mentioned Carlos? Best movie of the year*, no ifs, ands, or buts, whether you’re talking about the acting, the pacing, the cinematography, the scope, the politics, or the sheer balls of director Assayas for putting this work together. Worth every second of its 5 1/2 hour length.
*Unless, of course, True Grit knocks it out of first place.
Dennis SGMM
I haven’t seen any of them. It finally became more trouble than it was worth to pay fourteen bucks (sixteen if it’s 3D) to see a movie – particularly when some members of the audience just have to keep texting or answering their cellphones.
So, we finally broke down and bought a good-sized flatscreen and some decent speakers for it. Whatever it is, it’ll be out on PPV or DVD sooner or later.
Triassic Sands
I’m watching The Secret in Their Eyes now (and I mean right now, I had to take a break to deal with some grumbling cats, but I’ll go back and finish it in a few minutes) and reading Ebert’s description of the film, I wonder if he has even seen it.
I recently watched Winter Bone and here he employs a little hyperbole. A “…landscape scarcely less ruined than the one in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road?” Huh? Hey, things are pretty effed up in this film, but it’s hardly like The Road. Or maybe I missed the part where people started eating people!
I’m not criticizing the quality of either film. So far, I particularly like The Secret in Their Eyes.
I’ve always kind of liked Ebert, but never been very impressed with his taste in films. That doesn’t mean he has bad taste, just different taste from my own. But I’ve always appreciated his love of serious cinema, and he’s a good guy; that’s enough.
Mnemosyne
@Triassic Sands:
Ebert has what I like in a popular critic: consistent taste. Once I figured out what he liked and that he liked it consistently, I was able to gauge his reviews to see how I would like that same film. Sort of like the friend I had in high school who had awful taste in movies, so I knew that if she loved something, I had to stay away from it at all costs.
Flugelhorn
Wow. I agree with Cole, if Cole meant that the movie was not worth staying up for. THE most over-rated movie of 2010. There was nothing interesting. Nothing difficult to figure. No twist. No “Oh, WOW!” moment at all. It was just flat out bland Matrix with no hook.
JBerardi
@Bondo:
I’d go with “for it’s failure to include any characters that aren’t boring, creepy assholes”, but sure, that works too.
Amir_Khalid
@Triassic Sands:
@Mnemosyne:
The real value of a good and consistent movie critic like Ebert isn’t so much whether he likes or dislikes a particular movie; it’s in the way he educates the rest of us on how to assess a movie, how to appreciate its strengths, how to identify and analyze its weaknesses. You learn how to watch movies by reading, and thinking about, what he says about them. I disagree with him on quite a lot of movies, like The Lovely Bones and Kick-Ass, but I’ve also learned to figure out for myself what I like and why I like it.
Sirkowski
“The Ghost Writer” is an awful movie.
Triassic Sands
@Mnemosyne:
I couldn’t agree more with your assessment. Well said.
@Amir_Khalid:
I think your observations are correct, which is why I said I appreciate his love for serious cinema. But I also agree with Mnemosyne’s calling him a popular critic. He knows a lot about film, but his own tastes are often pretty pedestrian.
Back in the old days, because of the time it was on, Siskel and Ebert was one of the very few things I watched regularly on TV. Come to think of it, it may have been the only thing.
Ebert’s struggle with cancer has been cruel, but he’s also pretty fortunate that it hasn’t prevented him from doing what he loves so much. I’d say “most,” but I’m assuming that would be his wife.
Randy Paul
Loved The Ghost Writer, The Secret in Their Eyes (subtly, an argument against the death penalty), Winter’s Bone and I Am Love and while I usually love Atom Egoyan’s films, Chloe was dreadful.
bago
All of these olds not appreciating a human-sellable tale of recursion. (Inception)
Pixie79
Southern Beale:
Oh yes, I watched Greenberg with my best friend and we both agreed it was the worst movie in all creation. We kept waiting for something meaningful to happen or anything at all that would justify wasting over 2 hours of our life, but alas…. I just can’t get over how terrible it was.
I enjoyed inception very much. I love movies that make me think and that one definitely did. Nothing is more fun than discussing the ending with someone who just saw it, I love hearing people’s interpretations.
Also, Amir:
There are SOME idiots who will use their cellphones. Most of the time it’s retarded teenage morons who think they should be able to text through a 2 hour movie and YES it is distracting. I will let them get away with it once or twice, but if they keep at it, I will go get the usher. :)
And for whomever said don’t bring your idiot screaming babies to a movie — THANK YOU.
JGabriel
@Triassic Sands:
Metaphorically, I’m not certain that selling meth is all that different from cannibalism.
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JGabriel
@Amir_Khalid:
Kael played that role for me — which I only mention to agree with your assessment that the best measure of good critics is how they educate us, instead of training us to mimic their tastes.
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Southern Beale
@Pixie79:
That was me.
You’re welcome.
dirk
@Montysano:
Well, they are wank, I’ll grant you.
You lot are missing the point about Greenberg. You can reach middle age being petulant, having screwed up your friends’ lives, be so self-regarding you know nothing of their concerns and never having done anything of note. So long as you can throw up a serviceable doghouse in a mere week you get a pretty, infinitely tolerant blonde with perky tits. It’s a heart-warming affirmation of the rights of today’s oppressed male.
Oh, spoiler alert.