That’s a major problem with current PG-13 movies. They’re quite violent and gritty, in a way that cheapens actual consequences of violence. You can mow down tens of people with a machine gun as long as you don’t show blood. You play a game of “watch out for the designated f-bomb”. You see a character thrusting and…

It might be surprising to some, but watching the insides of a human turn into the outsides of a human isn’t really easy for everyone to watch. If I know going it it will be a grisly movie I can at least get myself into a mental space that lets me see it as a good effect. When I’m not expecting it, it can be a lot more…

Any time I watch an X-Men movie and Wolverine digs his giant claws into the chest of a living person I wonder to myself, “Why is a robot punching movie like Pacific Rim R, and this shit is not?”

Come on, everyone knows head-pulpenings are fun for the whole family, as long as there are no evil, evil boobs on display.

The worst part about The Hobbit to me is that it’s caused a whole slew of “See? LotR was always shit!” to crop up, and I just can’t abide such nonsense.

Suddenly “Exit. Pursued by a bear” makes a lot more sense.

Psh. He wishes he had Chris Marlowe’s hotbox stamina.

I think we all know that “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was the “Up In Smoke” of the 16th century.

Oh honey. That poor, poor 20 year old child. RUN, GIRL.

So...we’ve got two male writers - one who works in environmental advocacy and one who is a science writer and illustrator - commenting on the fiction writing experiences of a woman. Thanks, guys. Helpful.

Thanks for your perspective, but it feels like you bypassed a major point. The gender of those in the publishing business doesn’t matter—it’s their attitude towards male vs. female writers in assessing who even GETS a “first-step” response. I wouldn’t be surprised if women are just as gender-biased as men. It’s not…

I’m way out of the band’s demographic (though in Maher’s target demo—just not a fan) and know almost nothing about them; yet I still knew that one of the members was Muslim and that he was taking a lot of flack about it. If I knew that much even avoiding that slice of pop culture, I’m sure many in Maher’s audience…

Also, I love how the commercial implies a sort of "take that, DINOSAURS!" what with the shitty gas mileage slurping up all the fossil fuels. It's so absurdly U.S.A USA! and still a scathing critique of our energy policy. I fucking love this movie, it's one of my all time favorites

Nukes? Check.

For-profit prisons. For-profit fucking prisons. How is that not a offshoot of the sort of politics that ran Robocop?

Don't. According to every review I've seen it COMPLETELY misses the point of the original film. Not that a film can't be reimagined, but the filmmakers basically went in as if they were making a reboot of Robocop without grasping the satire.

I loved the news segment where the Star Wars-type missile defense system malfunctions and kills an ex-President in Santa Barbara (pretty clearly meant to be Reagan). Also, SUX 6000: gets 6 MPG! (while a dinosaur roars in the background)

I loved that poster. Somehow he made stepping out of a Ford Taurus not an embarrassment.

I think the themes of corporate greed, fear of a surveillance state, the military-industrial-police complex, a lack of accountability, and the feeling that urban cores are being neglected are all still relevant. And, though crime has dropped dramatically, the fear of crime and the use of that fear to mold policy is…

If anything, its exaggerations are our current reality. I doubt most viewers in the eighties believed everything that was privatized in RoboCop might actually be run by for-profit companies some day.