A couple of days ago, on the Newswire about Whitney Cummings defending Lana Del Rey, I posted about how I really REALLY wanted a feature where Sean O'Neal gets in an Internet snark-off with somebody. Today I see this. All of my dreams have come true!

@avclub-d80ecbbbef6ab40a4e53d1ad2c3fc1b2:disqus Oh no you did NOT just say that "The Man Who Wasn't There" is good but not great. That's one of their best films! I agree with the spirit of what you're saying, though. Even their (to my mind) strongest run—No Country, Burn after Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit—has a…

The Coens come closer than any other American filmmakers, though it'd be hard to argue that they have anything close to matching the run of The Godfather/The Conversation/The Godfather II.

Don't forget about the ellipsis/laugh-track line. That was some nice snark.

Not obviously. But then Owen Walker's name mysteriously changes to "Dwigt," and everything becomes clear.

Yeah well, better some outrage than none at all. Maybe after they taste success with this thing they'll be more likely to move against the next NDAA-type bill to come down the pike.

Lisa needs braces?

You make a fair point, but the real importance of all this hullabaloo is showing the average Internet denizen that they have real political clout if only they choose to exercise it. When was the last time you can remember that this many people got off their keisters and actually contacted their congressional…

Imagine that somebody yells "fire!" in a crowded theater, then the government arrests the theater owner for not stopping that guy from getting in. That's SOPA/PIPA for you.

@avclub-0de5d1a081a3095d62b416e44e055e7a:disqus The reason she can read The Hunger Games with no problems is because the deaths in that book carry all the visceral heft of Mario jumping on a goomba.

@avclub-16db446cafb1ffb1466e71eaf97a4f49:disqus , I just finished Hunger Games #1, and I'd have to say that you might be better off moving on to another book. It's like eating a cake that's almost entirely frosting: the setting is kinda cool, as is the basic concept of tributes being forced to fight to the death (it's…

I liked The Artist too, though I am a bit mystified by all the best-of-the-year hullabaloo. Maybe in another year (2008, maybe?) it would be at the top, but this was such a strong movie year that it doesn't quite make it.

I'm so glad we can quantify race in fractions now! Means that all this bullshit about Obama being the first black president can stop since, clearly, he is only the first 0.5-black president.

Quotation with chapter and verse, please. I've yet to see you back up your pronouncements with a source. Anecdotal evidence ain't much, but it sure beats your strategy of "someone told me this once so now I believe it."

Sounds like a fairly faithful adaptation of the book, then. Except for the part where one recommends it to others.

She is PAINFULLY full of herself. The edition of the book I read had an afterword-thing at the end, which was basically her spending four pages patting herself on the back for having the massive courage to write a book. You wouldn't think that, with such an enormous head, she'd be able to fit it so far up her rectum,…

Thank goodness you're here, E! Those hairs weren't going to split themselves!

Haven't seen the movie, but I have read the book, and I hated it for precisely the reason @Btown:disqus states: Kevin is just such an unmitigated, obvious psychopath. You can tell that Lionel Shriver wanted us to wonder how big of a role the mother's antipathy toward Kevin played in shaping him into such a monster,…

Tilda Swinton is Kevin's father?

I actually like Tebow as a person, but MAN this stuff is obnoxious. Fellow Christians: he is just a dude who is kind of okay at football! He is not John the Baptist!