I remember being four or five when I first remember watching Raiders of the Lost Ark all the way through, and remember it as a turning point/milestone because I wasn't freaked out by the felt melting scene, but definitely thought "That was AWESOME!"; as in I immediately ran to my friends' houses to show just them that…

No. Riots are spontaneous happenings. In the case of the Oscar Grant "riots", activists and organizers managed to channel that outrage into a movement. Planned riots are a shitshow and don't have much if any tactical successes.
But actual strikes, the kind the USA hasn't seen since 1947, are absolutely not passive…

I was referring to the Oscar Grant "riots" as a few broken windows. But as unpopular as this may come across, those stores in Baltimore (I see you left out the predatory Pay-Day Lending storefronts that were smashed up) I have a more "omelette = broken eggs" POV when taken in perspective with the constant violence…

You misunderstand. During the Oscar Grant protests after the initial "rioting" (still quotes… a few broken windows does not a Watts make) there was an organized resistance of escalating tactics (think strikes and work stoppages) and a community outrage that threatened more civil unrest. I'm not using the MLK quote…

No, you people are wrong. The "riots", the continual protests, the escalation of the protests, and the ever present threat of even more civil unrest is the only reason why A) You've even heard of Oscar Grant B) The cop who murdered him was charged C) The cop who murdered him actually went to prison (the 1st time in…

To the last point, I've traveled a bit around New Zealand and have gotten all kinds of shitfaced with more than a few Kiwis, and yes they are an extremely chill culture of people who like to have a good time. I've also hung out and drank with a lot of Aussies, and while I wouldn't say they get "blackout and commit a…

I guess I missed the episode of Webster where he takes his toy BB gun to the park and cops shoot him down within 4 seconds of pulling up like Tamir Rice. Or that time on Fresh Prince when Will was going to get married the next day, but was shot 50 times outside of his bachelor party like Sean Bell. Or that time…

David Simon came off like— strike that— *was* a complete ass when he spoke on the protests in Baltimore in the aftermath of the murder of Freddie Gray. A very Cosby-esque "pull up your pants black youth, and protest the respectable way like the myths we teach you about the Civil Rights movement" condescending…

Advertisers and marketers are evil and deserve to die is more of a late period George Carlin punchline. You really missed the point of the premise, it was the layering that Bill Hicks put on after the fact "This is not a joke…" that made it funny.

I was working at a video store when one day Chris Elliott walked up to the register with "Romy & Michele's High School Reunion" and one other tape. I recognized him, but I was in clerk auto-pilot so I said to him "For a dollar more you can rent three more movies."
And he was all like "Um, no, thanks, I'm okay with…

I don't know if it was the director's commentary of Hot Fuzz or where I heard it, but while researching 100s of actions movies, Frost & Pegg joked about the ever present baleful, mournful saxophone in all four Lethal Weapons that they called "Riggs' Lament". Which once pointed out as such, that's basically all I…

I was in the theaters for that; unlike the contrived wire work that would become way overused in action movies in the years following Matrix and Crouching Tiger, the final excruciating fight scene between Riggs, Murtaugh and Jet Li was just brutally choreographed… with some badass martial arts thrown in organically…

Biker Mice from Mars or STFU.

I disagree with this premise and I'm walking away from the discussion. May Simpsons references unite people in the future; they won't on this article's comments.

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Listen up kids: No matter how fine the piece of ace, if the gal you are with gets turned on from being stabbed through the hand or any other body part, run the fuck away!

What really sells it is that the over the top camp is absolutely unapologetic. These characters live in that world.

Between 1979's The Warriors and Over the Edge both being pulled from the theaters, the powers that be must have been terrified of the youth mobilizing and rising up. The Religious Right and the Reagan Revolution couldn't come fast enough for the squares.

I saw this in theaters as a kid. The harrowing short propaganda film that Cliff finds about an army of Nazi rocketeers invading the USA definitely stuck with me.

Yeah, making fun of the Rocketeer with a throwaway verse was the sour note in an otherwise very good pro-cannabis song and dance number in Family Guy's "420 Episode"