I think it was supposed to be a romantic comedy, screenplay adaptation by Tim Kazurinsky (SNL in the 80s) of all people. My favorite part of the movie is the contrived happy ending reunion, in which Demi Moore tells Rob Lowe that when they were together she was really happy - despite every previous single scene in the…

I agree. I can't stand the Ava storyline right now.

Fantasy novel series. They just. Never. End. But they do tend to come in trilogies. And the authors in the genre are more prolific than detective/thriller paperback authors. I got into the Xanth books in junior high, and was literally overwhelmed at the thought of keeping up, there were so many of them.

I've noticed that tendency on this site for a lot of shows/reviewers, actually - the reviewer spends several seasons criticizing each episode for not quite living up to the reviewer's initial vision of what the series was going to be. A show gets chastised for not featuring beloved supporting characters enough, or in…

That's kind of why I'm surprised, actually - because along with his Soon-Yi fixation, it indicates a pattern of behavior independent of some twisted relationship with Farrows. And I do think it's a telling thing that Manhattan is conveniently unmentioned in a lot of the separate-the-art-from-the-artist arguments. I'm…

Since Fillion's out, they should just try to do a feature with the CG characters and that voice actor who plays Nathan Drake and all the other cool game protagonists. I always thought Uncharted to be the one game series that has the charismatic characters and good writing to pull that off.

Right. I knew someone would say that. I like how everyone has to pretend all these academic categorizations live in their own exclusive vacuums. His creepiness toward one type of minor has nothing whatsoever to do with his creepiness toward another type of minor.

Wasn't Manhattan about him dating a 17-year-old? I'm surprised that doesn't come up in these discussions.

I'd say the only two shows on this list that actually got better from cast members leaving would be The Daily Show and Parks & Recreation. The rest are more like shows that didn't really suffer from cast members leaving.

The whole ad campaign was "who is Kaiser Soze?" So when he stage whispers something to Gabrielle Byrne in the first scene and it sounded like Kevin Spacey, the whole rest of the movie I was waiting for it to be him.

It was the right move to make if you're a passive, weak member of
Tyson's alliance and you're afraid your mom is eventually going to
overshadow you in it. She's not very good at challenges and she just
goes along with the program. She didn't have the guts to consider making
a move with her mom and Katie. She felt she…

I guess that was Aaliyah, around the same time. Sorry :D

I thought Lefteye's overloaded small plane crashed, rather than an automobile accident?

And the AV Club takes stand-up comedy too seriously. I can't believe I just read something in which the author blames audiences for performers' meltdowns.

Walt confessed to a bunch of murders on his call with Jesse though. Or could that be thrown out for some legal technicality?

I'm not a vegetarian but I can respect all of the reasons people have for for being one. But it's a completely arbitrary choice. And it's a dietary thing. I think you can give yourself a waiver when it comes to tiny morsels, if you want to be a chef.

I think they were just a little more dressed up than usual, I guess for dinner, hence Krissi's "nicer" hair.

This looks like one of those movies so patronizing to its own protagonist - she's going to have absolutely no awareness of things like drinking, strippers and staying out late because those things only exist in Las Vegas, and without ever having visited it, there's absolutely no way she would have any insight into the…

There were a couple hour-long dramas that were spinoffs from sitcoms. Lou Grant was a newspaper drama featuring the Mary Tyler Moore Show character. And Trapper John, M.D. was a hospital drama about the character from Mash.

I used to trust the AV Club reviews more than anywhere else, but lately they seem to be giving a bit of a pass to shitty blockbuster movies. I basically assume everything will be about 2 letter grade worse than they say now.