So many uncharitable people completely misunderstanding this movie, here in this forum.

The thing is, the film is aware of their privilege, and it means to provoke you with it, especially in the scene to which you refer. It's basically the part of a horror film when the teenagers are being assholes, so that their ordeal is somewhat tolerable to you, the viewer, before you're allowed to begin sympathizing…

The thing is, the film is aware of their privilege, and it means to provoke you with it, especially in the scene to which you refer. It's basically the part of a horror film when the teenagers are being assholes, so that their ordeal is somewhat tolerable to you, the viewer, before you're allowed to begin sympathizing…

You're basically right about the intentional fallacy, but I think the point stands that this is an unconvincing moment of, well, it's hard to call it critical analysis. Why is Dwight's hysterical reaction like that of fans of the show? Where is the analogy? It's a stretch. Also, there was no sinking ship in the…

You're basically right about the intentional fallacy, but I think the point stands that this is an unconvincing moment of, well, it's hard to call it critical analysis. Why is Dwight's hysterical reaction like that of fans of the show? Where is the analogy? It's a stretch. Also, there was no sinking ship in the…

I realize that I invited it with my original comment, and that complaining about the letter grade in the first place is pretty dull. I do wish they'd just get rid of them altogether, because I enjoyed the actual review. What the letter grade says, that the review doesn't really say, is basically, "This is one of the…

I realize that I invited it with my original comment, and that complaining about the letter grade in the first place is pretty dull. I do wish they'd just get rid of them altogether, because I enjoyed the actual review. What the letter grade says, that the review doesn't really say, is basically, "This is one of the…

Perhaps he did. I don't really see the justification for the low grade. (B is a low grade for this show.) Oh, and my question was mostly rhetorical, even though I know that doesn't protect me from snotty retorts.

Perhaps he did. I don't really see the justification for the low grade. (B is a low grade for this show.) Oh, and my question was mostly rhetorical, even though I know that doesn't protect me from snotty retorts.

I was very impressed by Totally Biased. They weren't giving much away in the previews, so I didn't know what to expect, but the entire show was solid, with the possible exception of a slightly lame interview with Chris Rock. Everything else had me laughing. I see it as a serious competitor to Jon Stewart's model,…

I was very impressed by Totally Biased. They weren't giving much away in the previews, so I didn't know what to expect, but the entire show was solid, with the possible exception of a slightly lame interview with Chris Rock. Everything else had me laughing. I see it as a serious competitor to Jon Stewart's model,…

It's funny, the dinner scene didn't strike me at all as campy or slapstick. Nightmarish and absurd are neither the words I'm looking for, but they're closer. No, there was something intensely gothic about the outlandish turns this episode took. The sequence had awesome direction. There was one series of moments in…

I'm confused by the reviewer's critique of the Nazi sketch. The scene is not characterized by "randomness." The target of the satire is a mix of antiquated race pseudoscience and Nazi scientism. If anything seems random, it would be the contemporary black American dialect cliches, but for me that only adds to a…

That's what I love about these Radiohead fans, man. They get older, and Radiohead stays the same age!