Steve, that was shockingly straight-faced.

I made the preceding comment more out of my own frustration with that movie (having Netflixed it as you did, on the recommendation of a friend). Shouldn’t've been as ad hominem as it probably came off.

I think what made the movie so unwatchable for me had nothing to do with the slow pace (being a Tarkovsky man myself) but more the vanity-project nature of it. I just found Gallo remarkably unlikable, and so I didn’t care about his journey and what not. Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra — a very classical Hollywood movie if we’re talking old/new styles of filmmaking — only gets by because it’s got elaborate sets, choreography, etc — to see such a self-involved movie without (it seemed to me) any redeeming factors if you weren’t totally onboard with the star’s schtick was really chafing.

I object to the number of negroes in this video.

I propose Arizona Anti-Gooch-Gyration Law sb1070.

Fuck what Conor Oberst and Kanye think about it.

The denouement wherein drama arises over what Glee cast member the you’ve been tagged as sounds promising, though.