This.

Yeah, at the end, Michael Douglas should have gone, "Wait a minute, I threw myself off a building because you tricked me into thinking I'd killed you! What if I'd missed your net? What if I'd frozen up and drowned when the taxi went into the river? Fuck you guys!"

I don't really understand how Fincher's understanding of how stupid the plot is translates into a virtue. It makes him a good director—taking a ridiculous screenplay and making a film that's at least intelligent in its craft—but it doesn't make the movie itself worthwhile. It's just a bad script filmed by people who…

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"Does the Coliseum manufacture bloodlust through actual killing?" —pop culture commentator, circa first-century Rome

I imagine they have the same problem that cable news networks run into. They have to run a certain number of these features per week, but there's simply not enough new, interesting stuff to talk about. Articles like this are the AV Club equivalent of CNN doing a 10-minute story about the "hero dog" who once kept a…

This article is the Platonic ideal of "tl;dr." I mean honestly, who gives a shit?

"This just in—TV wrestling appears to be faked!"

How about: four of your seven oh-so-incisive observations are about Facebook. Stop spending so much time on Facebook, jackass.

Or at least would be, if she weren't constantly lacquered up with makeup and hair product.

Not since Horrible Bosses has there been a movie with a more utilitarian, boring title. Couldn't they at least bothered to fire up the "Generic Hollywood Title-tron 3000" for it? Something like Being [Protagonist's Name] would actually be an improvement.

@avclub-0d04659047f95a243e71c97e64ae4812:disqus I think the snark is motivated by his whininess, not his acting ability. Someone else on this page said it best: if you're not Star Wars Kid—if you are, in fact, a kid who was financially compensated for whatever teasing you had to endure—then maybe you should shut up…

Have you seen any of the other movies he was in? His acting career was ruined the second he tried to act. Haley Joel Osment he wasn't.

Hit it on the noh-ze!

No, I'll agree with the OP. Jar Jar was annoying, but in a kiddie-movie way that I found easier to ignore. We were supposed to take Jake Lloyd's role seriously, which made his awfulness SO much worse.

@avclub-b210215075f68e712aa3d04c9269aea8:disqus I might agree with you if I hadn't seen Jingle All the Way. He's just as awful in that, though his part is smaller so it's easier to ignore.

He was a bad guy in Wanted, I think. I wouldn't know from personal experience because I didn't see it.

Hey Lobsters, don't get me wrong, I liked the movie (enough that it almost made my top 10 from last year). But Cotillard's subplot didn't get much screen time to begin with, and it just wasn't that interesting whenever it was onscreen. Every time she popped up I found myself wishing she would go away so we could get…

That was exactly my reaction to Midnight in Paris, Arsenio. I'm beginning to think that Woody Allen is no longer capable of writing good parts for women anymore. Not that McAdams helped much—she played the character in the most boring, literal way possible, not doing anything to flesh out Allen's caricature.

I liked the Jude Law subplot. Marion Cotillard's story definitely should have been cut, though. I just didn't care about anything that happened with her at all, and it dragged down the pacing something fierce.