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There's a moment in last night's episode— I think when Lydia comes to the car wash and is talking to Walt at the register— where Walt is trying to deflect her questions in such a public place and arches his eyebrows and drops his mouth and looks JUST like Gus, especially during those times when Walt would come to try

Haha, I love reading all the butt hurt comments from people who thought District 9 was the finest, most intelligent science fiction movie ever made and cannot STAND someone saying the director's new movie is just kinda meh.

Terminator 2 was pretty heavy on the action, but there are still a LOT of intelligent ideas at play throughout that movie.

Wait, District 9 was "nothing short of stellar"? Were we watching the same movie?

Can someone explain to me why Steven Moffat thinks the Doctor shouldn't be female because the show doesn't have many female viewers? Did I suddenly get transported to an alternate universe where woman and men are only allowed to enjoy entertainment featuring main characters of the same gender?

This post reminds me of all the people who freaked out when the new Ultimate Spider-Man was black. People just find all sorts of reasons to justify their narrow-mindedness.

Moon? Also, Not-District 9? Its world building was literally just apartheid, but aliens instead of black folks, and it hurt any sense of unity by having the aliens pick up and leave at the end.

I think you hit the nail on the head. I always kind of suspected something was up, but this kind of confirms it. I was thinking about giving Elysium a chance even though I really didn't care for District 9 at all, but Blomkamp has convinced me that it's definitely not worth it.

Well, I had already watched the first two episodes and kind of decided not to keep going before I read the review. My wife really seems to like it, so I'll probably give the third episode a shot, too. But she was also hooked by Weeds immediately and I didn't start actually enjoying that show at all until the second

Yes, insufferably pleased with itself is exactly the phrase I was looking for after I watched the first two episodes. And rather boring.

You should also read the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep, which The Big Lebowski takes a lot of its plot cues from. The whole film is a parody of/homage to hardboiled detective stories, playing on the trope of a private investigator constantly stumbling on big conspiracies by placing The Dude in the middle of

Has there been an Attorney General in the last 20 years that wasn't a major screw up? Republican or Democrat?

Whatever, as long as they get Richard Kiley to narrate.

Good god, "too many jokes" is the phrase that describes Arrested Development perfectly, in a good way. The show just hurls jokes at you constantly, I'm still picking up on them after having watched the entire series at least a dozen times.

Your entire argument relies on the idea that Kickstarters like Braff's, which you have deemed unnecessary because he's made of money and has connections, take funding away from smaller projects. Do you have any proof of that or do you just like to complain about things but feel bad if there isn't actually any

I don't get people's problem with Kickstarter. It's already set up for you to show your disapproval, by NOT backing it.

No, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim are owned by Turner Broadcasting, which is owned by Time Warner.

Don't forget great soundtrack!

Dying his hair goes a long way towards making him look younger. The way his hair looked in Collateral is what it actually looks like.

You're jumping outside of the genre it's rooted in— science fiction— to connect it to a different genre entirely, in an attempt to marginalize the third act because it wasn't what you expected. Everyone did that with the third act of 28 Days Later, too, when the characters end up at the military installation.