Agreed. It's like in Pulp Fiction when Marvin, a young black man, gets literally killed on camera unexpectedly and it's played for laughs. Utterly reprehensible. There's no way a decent human being could find that even the least bit amusing or acceptable. Sure, he was a criminal, but you can't just blithely murder a…

I'll stipulate that we white guys are the worst people on earth and the cause of all its problems if you agree to stop using this brave observation to advertise how virtuous you are for holding all the right-thinking opinions. Deal?

I thought the same for T2, but I rewatched it recently and the use of "Bad to the Bone" undermines a bit the idea that you're really supposed to be wondering if Arnold is the good guy or not.

Nah, it's just that if He's not bothering to stop ISIS from forcing women into sex slavery, He's probably not going to care about the marital problems of the insufferably self-righteous.

Not to mention his surprisingly badass delivery of "No, Ace. Just you." He really sold it.

TWINE had at least one pretty effective moment from what I remember. It's the scene where Bond kills Sophie Marceau's character and then grimly cradles her head in silence for a few moments. Brosnan does a great job of selling a bunch of different emotions at this this point: his regret at this one instance taking a…

We're doing it specifically to annoy you, ClarkBarAndTheZagnuts.

I'm curious what the reaction would have been if the sexes had been reversed in this letter:

You're right. He shouldn't have trusted her to say what she meant when she suggested an open relationship. He should have instead denied her agency and ignored what she specifically said in favor of what he thought was best for her.

I agree that his flirting was shitty, but if she didn't want an open relationship, she shouldn't have suggested an open relationship. The idea that he should have known she didn't actually want what she said she wanted is a bit of a denial of her agency.

The DSM-V is a terrible, power-gaming bastardization of the product line. I personally use the classic DSM-III rules updated with my own homebrew psychological diagnoses that I've developed through experiencing running those kinds of campaigns.

Great topic. I'd pick the pub scene in X-Men: First Class, when Magneto hunts down and kills some former Nazis. The rest of the movie was just OK, but that scene — the carefully ratcheting tension and Michael Fassbender's somehow riveting stillness — was terrific. It made me wish the whole movie had been just…

This sounds like the plot to a Nightmare on Elm Street movie. They all died in ways related to their talents in life. Except the track kid, I guess, but… maybe he was fast like a car?

The toast felt genuine to me. I figured it was a case of Kor having earned Martok's respect — just not his forgiveness.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus Liked for "immiscible".

Agreed! And Phil Morris was outstanding in the role. In a just world, he'd be much better known.

That's a good point, but the problem is that if you follow any of Trek's technology to its logical conclusion, it would completely change the nature of warfare. The idea of even having biological soldiers is ludicrous when you could replicate as many low-complexity drones as you needed and transport them anywhere on a…

Why is a lack of squeemishness about statutory rape admirable?

He had to be, with all those facial prosthetics. Shimmerman, too. How those two could out-act most of the rest of the cast while wearing what amounted to goalie masks is pretty incredible.

The one for The Visitor is still my favorite. Absolutely tore the cover off that one.