its 2024 and I got a community notification for this?

Only the most shallow reading of the film would call it “directly” about just this one event. Over and over, the characters and the context interrogate the roots of racism, and the insidious ways it burrows into the hearts of ostensibly good people.

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it’s 2024 i’m reading an av club newswire about joel mchale and chevy chase fighting on the set of community

I will say Chevy Chase being an asshole was used to brilliant effect on the show at times, particularly in the D&D episode 

To be fair to McHale, the dislocated shoulder was during the filming of a scene where McHale’s character was practicing boxing by punching Chase’s padded hands, and Chase kept goading McHale to punch harder between takes. So McHale punched the padded hand as hard as he could with his left (McHale’s right handed), and…

Better than no years.

Sure but just vote Biden in November and you won’t have to actually worry about any of this.

I completely agree with, “The bombings were necessary to shorten the war and save lives,” but I can’t get on board with, “The Japanese were utterly alien savages from a culture we can’t possibly understand who completely deserved whatever was done to them.”

like yeah i think it would have done a lot better if it was up against CODA

Wow, more people failing to come to grips with the evil of using nuclear weapons because of some hypothetical they’ve made up. Glad we all still think America can do no wrong! And to the point about “reading history”, most historians have reappraised the use of the bomb and do not agree that it’s use was justified. In…

I’ll see your three Oscars for 12 Years a Slave and raise you five for Green Book. The Oscars do love movies about historical tragedies, but they do love them in particular ways.

This is a reductive take. While I loved Killers and didn’t find the length burdensome, it’s a bad faith take to say that people who can’t get on board are lowbrow idiots (which is what I interpret your comment to be saying).

Three and a half hours is difficult. Many people don’t have that in their day to give all at…

Checking and commenting on the AV Club while watching a movie. LOCKED IN lol.

That’s as may be, she’s still a dopey attention whore who is only worthy of the scorn of the AV Club commentariat.

Apparently Dominic Sessa (who played Angus) is only 21 and was an actual student at the prep school they were using for filming! Maybe preppies just age faster or something.

This robot Markle is supposed to have a bunch of settings, but this one’s gotten stuck on People Are Saying Mean Things About Me Online mode.

You’d think eventually she might become curious about exactly why people find that shit so ridiculous and funny.  

Fuck, Avatar has had more cultural impact that Rebel Moon.

I also question the apples-to-apples of it. People who get dressed, travel to a theater and pay their $11 to specifically see one thing aren’t really comparable to people who’ve already paid their $15 and are just settling for something to have on in the background while they fidget with their phones/iPads.