Like a violence-gang?

Not really. Herpes involves much less damage to the lips.

Noooooooooo!

Guys, I'm right here, you know.

@avclub-d867626b1135a55f0cb80621e28e8d62:disqus : Seriously, there isn't anything wrong with movies that are sheer entertainment. Isn't witnessing something amazingly creative and skillful a moving experience in itself? A human made that!

I dunno if I'd call these superior, but here's a few widespread American movies I think could have contended with Brokeback Mountain: A History of Violence, The Devil's Rejects, and Munich.

It's a movie that's in part about how ideas can consume and absorb us. Which it illustrates by consuming and absorbing us. It's really special. I think part of a movie's impact should be judged by how it gets under your skin like that.

No, Inception's still cool. But there does appear to be a growing sentiment that Nolan's work is empty spectacle that only pretends to hold meaning, including John Semley's laughable comment the other day that The Dark Knight is "pop nihilism." (Defend yourself, Semley!)

Don't worry on that front. Hollywood Tom Brady wrote The Animal and The Hot Chick and directed Bucky Larson. It's kind of a Twins situation.

My younger brother once clogged a toilet with a Rock Lord so badly the toilet had to be taken out. This could also be a metaphor.

You guys have a state paper? How fare its lobbying efforts to finally get the telegraph wires extended?

I'm pretty sure we found out the gerbils are the real racists.

I dunno. A big nerd for feeling the need to correct that, maybe. If you're talking about the nerdiness of knowing the correct spelling of "Worf," though, I'd say that's more in the moderate range; he is one of the series' main characters. I'd rank it lower than knowing the proper spelling of wookiee and Kashyyyk, for…

Been a few years since I saw it, but I thought The Four Feathers remake was a pretty snappy adventure. Think the ol' Club even called it "a ripping yarn."

Farnum's spectacular. He's a cowardly, selfish, backstabbing, preening, insecure, self-important little earwig, but he's paralyzingly aware that he's weak and inadequate and will never have the strength he fears and envies in Al. He's a perfectly-realized character and Sanderson fills him out with this sweaty pathos…

Yeahhh. That came close to making me ill. And Bell's face, so obviously brain-damaged.. I hated her weaselly little character and couldn't wait for her to get squashed, but that scene with Cy made me hate him even more, and wish that Bell had taken up an honest life instead. A lot of emotions wrapped up in that little…

Oh. Well, I didn't mean to take issue with it in a literal sense like *pushes glasses up nose* "Sir, the distance from Anchorage to the North Pole is nearly 2000 miles, while the events in question clearly span no more than 1700! Your fact-checker's shaky grasp of geography really cost you this time."

Why? Are you saying you prefer your criticism to be about jokes rather than accurate observations?

Funny line, but unless he's referencing the changes in landscape, it's grossly exaggerated. Logistically speaking, they only cover maybe 25-50 miles over the course of the movie.

It's pretty atmospheric and grim for an action-y movie. If you've got more patience for foolish testosterone than Scott, I'd recommend it.