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Christopher McCandless vs Alexander Supertramp

AV Club: Book versus Movie: Into the Wild

Overheard at AMC Kips Bay Today

Elderly man, marching up to ticket seller, in a booming voice: "One for Blood!!"

It's funny 'cause he's old.

Once

I'm not saying that "Once", as a series of moving pictures on a screen, isn't better than 99% of the movies released theatrically in 2007, I'm just saying that it's not a real movie because NOTHING HAPPENS. Two kind of boring looking people meet and fall in love and sing songs and everything is great and then it's over. There's never any real conflict or emotional stakes. It's just a really long, good music video for songs you won't hate if you don't hate Coldplay. The one about the boat is pretty catchy. But that's it. So just stop.

"4 Months, 3 Weeks..." Might Already Live In Your TV Set

I just noticed that the movie opening this weekend to rave reviews and lots of blog coverage is already available for $5.99 on Movies on Demand. It's freezing, there are no other supposed-to-be-good movies opening, and you're welcome.

Eternal Sunshine is Currently Available on HBO OnDemand

...And it's still the best movie ever made about love. I watched it last night for the first time in about two years, and I see the ending completely differently now. It's an even better movie than I thought it was when I thought it was the best movie I'd ever seen. Anyway: Eternal Sunshine: Still Wonderful.

I Will See 'Baby Mama'

But has anyone noticed that that 4-episode arc in which Anna Faris guest-starred as Monica and Chandler's future kids' trashy birth mother from the last season of 'Friends' sure is showing up in the movies a lot lately (Juno)? Anyone? Just me?:

(I know this is too big. I'm leaving it.)

There Are Two Types of People

People who read about JJ Abrams' "mystery box" and say "Wow, that's cool." and people who just want to rip that f**king pretentious box open and show him the contents.

I am the latter.

Distilling the Moral of "Atonement"

(Spoiler alert, I guess, sort of.):

The lesson I got out of "Atonement": if you have a gummi worm growing out of your chest, you should get it looked at.

More Than This

* Via Jezebel: Thanks to the wonders of online video, we now know what Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett J in Lost in Translation. (I really wish it had been "rosebud is a sled.")

* I tried to comment on this Has David Cross Sold Out thread on The Onion, but it wasn't working and then I remembered I have a platform: everyone begrudging David Cross a regular income should state where they work and which multinational or otherwise evil corporation signs their paychecks. It's a kid's movie. DC still does free and benefit shows all the time, and work like this presumably allows him to do that stuff and develop more funny entertainment for the nice people. Deal with it. (Note: I know the actual post wasn't saying he sold out, the stupid commenters were.)

Round Up of Some Good Media to Consume

I'm apparently too busy consuming media to blog about it, but here is some media I've consumed recently, most of it good. (I don't get anything for this.):

Good Books:

Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander

The Kept Man by Jami Attenberg

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta

Good Movies:

No End in Sight

Juno (I went in expecting to hate it - it had some annoying tics and was kind of twee, but I think it's theater-worthy.)

The Savages (But it's not really a comedy)

Bad, Bad, Very Bad Movie:

Margot at the Wedding (you're still going to see it, you'll just wish you didn't)