Their music helped me make a lot of friends in HS that I definitely wouldn’t have otherwise. I distinctly remember someone saying they suddenly respected me so much more because I listened to Blackalicious.

Ya gotta admit, it’s a catchy tune.

I’ll take any possible opportunity to praise Eurotrip, and Scotty Doesn’t Know. Great song, great movie.

I started reading the AVClub when it was a page in the Onion newspaper. The last two years have been a bizarre change of content into the bog it is now. Yet I don't know a pop culture website equivalent to the AVC pre 2018 or so. C'est la web, non?

Not any that Sam Barsanti, the hackiest hack ever is on that is for sure.

Same here. And I’ve been reading for...shoot, 15 years by now? This site used to be SO great. There was this one series of articles where a writer basically bought on eBay a giant box of paperbacks and reviewed them, and it was incredible.

Wondering the same thing.  Sick of all this “Everything is horrible and not PC enough, including movies from the 1980's.”

Well, that’s exactly it. This kind of title is just gross. When Rick Blaine said “Here’s looking at you , kid” it didn’t mean that Ilsa was 12. But I’m sure we’ll litigate that on this site at some point, too. Making Karen Allen have to defend some 40 year old movie line, with it’s clear innocent intent, is stupid.

I took care of a guy who met his wife when she was 16 and he was 24, they got married as soon as she turned 18 with her parents blessing.  This was in 1972 and was not unusual at all for the time.

I miss the days before fans were obsessed with what is or not canon within a fictional universe. It left popular fiction open to so much more intrepretation, especially with a line like “I was a child”. Now, we are forced to consider whether a fictional character, whose in-universe timeline goes back almost 90 years,…

Depends on the locale and era.  These days with Millenials living with their parents past 18, society may revise things again and decide that adulthood starts at 30. There’s no objective start of adulthood unless you want to start it at puberty (which historically most cultures did).

Harrison Ford is 9 years older than Karen Allen, which is actually a pretty reasonable age difference when it comes to movies. I always figured she was early in college and he was a graduate student, which fits just fine with that age difference. The fact that Abner wanted the relationship to end is unlikely to be…

WAY after that time period, too. I mean, no one really batted an eye at Elvis and Priscilla, did they? And she was FOURTEEN.

Would you please stop being so damned reasonable?

It has become pretty damn tiresome at this point. 

I never took “I was a child” to mean that she was literally a child, but just that Marion was a college-age teenager (say, 18 or 19), and he was 8 or 10 years older.  So she still felt like a kid in comparison to him, the older man.

It was...unfunny...but I also don’t think it’s a “comedy” special...I loved it though..I couldn’t look away...visuals were great, the 1 man choreography and lighting was fantastic and many of the songs had deep thoughtful, sometimes funny lyrics

Anybody know of an entertainment site with active comments where every second article isn’t about how everybody in entertainment is secretly a piece of shit?

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