It's like blaxploitation movies for creepy white people:

You gave this an A-? That's for near perfect storytelling and this is an episode that opens more plot holes than any other I can think of:

@Ichi_the_Blind: at least a dick can wibble-wobble to the points being made … Oh no! Freudian slip! I mean, the points I'm trying to say are FIRM! and ERECT!

@ "The problem is that we can't let series die" — because as long as there are fans willing to shell out their hard earned green-backs there will be producers willing to green-light horrible sequels to movies that shouldn't be made. There are hundreds of "NEXT Aliens" scripts out there, but as long as they're being…

So, in other words, you're entire stance is, "I masturbated despite recognizing how many problems this movie had" and that's suppose to be impressive? Yes, astronauts taking off their helmets on an alien planet is retarded as hell. Yes, every single member of the crew's behavior only made sense if they were androids…

What, turning "The Shark That Ate My Friend" meme into something that Wolverine can punch is suppose to be a bad thing?

I ask you, would they put age-lines around Schwarzenegger's mouth if this was an artist's portrait of a Terminator? No! But because Ripley is, you know, female, we have to make her look like an actual 65 year-old woman who kicks ass because … um, sorry, I just fell in love with
Sigourney Weaver all over again.

We have Xenomorph porn, which means that in 2015 whatever scare and/or story Scott's creature might have had is now titillation.

Ah, Star Wars and the muddled issue of race:

As long as he's being held accountable for being the worst Jedi ever and the reason the that they're all dead.

Why kill Zeb when he's one of the few characters they've actually been able to draw consistently? Look at the at the Gumby-like Wookies! Look at Vader! His helmet seems to have melted into a mean-looking scowl and in profile it's bigger than his body (did they model this Vader on Dark Helmet from Space Balls?) At…

I know this show is targeted at 12 year-old boys, but is "spray painting = bad ass" still a thing? Because I was waiting for one of the Troopers to yell, "it's El Barto!" since this is an universe where, apparently, graffiti warrants the death penalty.

As oldies but goodies go, the 1983 TV movie, The Day After, was impossible to rewatch at the time. I have no idea if it would have the same impact on me now. And while not bleak by today's standards, one of the first punch to the gut moments I remember was this, from M*A*S*H:

That image of the Doctor pressing his ear against the wall as Rose does the same thing in the other universe at the end of Doomsday upset me to no end, Of course the emotional punch of losing Rose forever kept getting diminished every time Billie Piper would guest star in later episodes, but for a while I was so…

"Bleak" was more or less how I'd describe the second half of Battlestar Galactica and the show had no problem killing off characters all the time, but it was "Sometimes a Great Notion," when Dualla splatters her brains all over her locker, that was the tipping point for me. Perhaps Edward James Olmos' break down over…

thank you!

huh, AV Club has gone from having insightful views on world cinema to crap articles that show no respect for the craft … which means that, in the future, if the name "D'Angelo" is attached to something it'll be easy to not click on it since why would I want to support another article like this?

Could the production crew not afford the CGI needed to actually show us what happens to these people? As soon as anything remotely dramatic happens, "Oh No!" the cameras go all white noise-static and a few seconds later some blank-faced crew member has to fill us in on what just happened, "She's fallen through the…

Chastity? as a plot for an entire movie? regardless of their homophobic, misogynistic religion who cares if two upper-class white people have sex or not? That's not great story-telling, that voyeurism.

So … Clay is an old-fashioned amateur pornographer? In Christian circles is that a code word for "I once took a nude selfie"? Or are we suppose to take his "dark" past seriously? I always wondered who was to blame for all those crappy POV pornos that induce motion sickness in the viewer because the guy can't hold the…