You can also hold Captain Smith responsible for not doing enough to organize and manage getting passengers into the boats. There was room in lifeboats for 1100 people, about half, but only 700 or so survived because the crew was sending down lifeboats that weren't full. After giving the abandon ship order Smith…

I read "Unsinkable!" by Daniel Allen Butler some years ago, was pretty solid.

The ship had loads of mail. One of the first signs they were in deep trouble was when the mail room flooded.

I remember once reading on this forum someone comparing the British Empire to the Nazi empire. Had to think about that for a second, but, other than the (admittedly pretty fucking major) one difference re: death camps, the parallels are there. It was the British that invented the concentration camp.

Rarely in school was I ever more amazed than the day in 9th-grade World History class when I saw the Mongol Empire map. Jesus. Those guys were badasses.

Ismay's culpability is greatly exaggerated. First, the business about Ismay pushing Smith to sail too fast is a myth. Second, Ismay was not in violation of any requirement for lifeboats: passenger liners of that era were not required to carry lifeboats for all the passengers and in fact the White Star Line had more…

What song was playing at the end? It sounds like the Israel national anthem called "the Hope," which, while appropriate, is probably not what the song was.

Try Glide brand floss. I had the same problem until I switched.

This show was destined to fail. Who was their target audience? It's a show about a talking animal but had too much sex and drug use for a family show. They cast unattractive actors (what's up with Alison Tolman's chin?) and had them play unlikeable people - let's stalk some strangers, let's put the dogs life at risk…

I'd say Congressman Sean Duffy has been doing alright for himself.

I have to believe in the Snickers and Rikers ending. Gloria is the first and likely only person to see right through Varga's BS. It's like his "black magic" doesn't work on her, like the automatic doors and soap dispensers. She is on a different level of perception than the rest of us.
Also, Gloria is not afraid of any…

The AV Club has gotten really shitty these days. No one checks anything.

Say what you will about Yoko—and the right thing to say would probably be something about her utter lack of talent as a singer and recording artist—people are "beholden" to the old Yoko killed the Beatles story because, well, Yoko killed the Beatles. John Lennon said so. To David Sheff in 1980:

Love how they're singing together on the last verse.

I like "Imagine", but I do agree that "Watching the Wheels" is a great, great song. Easily the best of all the stuff he recorded in 1980, to be sure.

The whole time June was ranting in the car, all I could think was "shut up! Shut up! Look at where you are so you can finding Hannah again!" Given that getting Hannah back was her number one priority and reason for going on, I had hoped she could take a deep breath and focus. Nope. Instead a meaningless tirade that…

Not the tiniest bit of humor in this movie.

This film sucked. Just nothing but pain, misery, and despair. For 2 1/2 punishingly dull hours. The Platonic ideal of the boring, depressing European art movie that rubs the audience's face in misery.

It might be well to note that, whatever one thinks of the skeeviness of David Edelstein's review, or of his comments regarding Emma Watson, he has since clarified that "superbabe-in-the-woods" is a play on, well, the expression "babe in the woods", wherein "babe" relates to "child" or "baby" and is meant to signify a…

"the overwhelming emotional response the film has provoked in fans (female fans, specifically, but all genders report finding it moving) who have been waiting their entire lives for a sequence like Diana’s heroic crossing of no man’s land"