College-Aged Males: This is your anthem

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 2016)

For a child of the 80s, this was perfect...the antidote to feeling hemmed in and impotent. i'd imagine this movie is less appealing to today's college-aged boys, but maybe i'm wrong... i hope that masculine-ideal-related anxiety is becoming less pervasive... although the internet may prove otherwise. this film features a stellar soundtrack by the Dust Brothers, high replay-ability (thanks to lots of little Easter eggs) and a pretty dynamic cast... Helena Bonham Carter has disappointed me with every other feature I've seen her in. Go see it if only to learn the rules... and of course, for Brad Pitt as the biggest bad-ass since his role as Jeffrey Goines in 12 monkeys