Look for your shift key. You might find an actual argument lying next to it.

I don't even like Woody Allen (and am overall lukewarm on Polanski for that matter, though I do love "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown"). But I want to be able to talk about their art without it always degenerating into an inverted dick-measuring contest where the goal is to see who can be the most self-righteous about…

Exactly, man. Might as well slap a bumper sticker on their car that says "I'M AGAINST PEDOPHILIA." Bold stance! You should be congratulated for that!

It doesn't bother me in the sense that you mean. It annoys me. It's repetitive; it's discussion-derailing at worst or pointless white noise at best; and it feels like you think you're performing some public service, when in fact these guys are the subject of almost non-stop jokes and chatter in the media, to the point…

Why is there always this guy in every conversation about Allen, Polanski, or whoever else (Matthew Broderick is one the internet seems weirdly obsessed with)? We know. We also live in the world, where this stuff happened and was widely discussed for years by such obscure comics as Jay Leno.

I really like Sweeney Todd; really liked Big Fish when I saw it but am afraid to revisit; and really, REALLY hated Sleepy Hollow. What a plotless, pointless turd, and the first Burton movie where I felt like he was becoming nothing but art design and quirk in search of a script.

It'll be fine. Considering the whole reason people started posting entirely off-topic on the T.I. was due to their white-hot hatred of it, its death is probably overdue.  Now we'll just have to discuss things in places it makes sense to discuss them.  Like when I want to post a long list of obscure metal albums I've…

Were the Ramones or Buzzcocks "pop-punk"? Because if they were just regular punk, then I have no problem letting Blink or Green Day be punk too.  Giving a fuck about this in 2013 is so 1993.

The entirety of "Punk in Drublic" is a career highlight.  I got sick of NOFX but I never get sick of that album.

The question is not "do all their songs sound the same," because clearly they do.  The question is "do I enjoy this song?"  And the answer for me is (or at least was) "yes."  Throwaway summer anthem is about the right description - they're like a less annoying, more energetic, more self-aware Third Eye Blind or…

The AV Club: Smart Guys Pretending to be Dumb… Dumb Guys Pretending to be Smart.

Morons always have the best time doing everything.

I agree.

News flash: starting sentences with a condescending little intro followed by a colon makes you seem like a douche.  Nearly as douchey is starting any sentence with "sorry" as if pitying those who would disagree with you.  When you find yourself doing these things three times in one paragraph, you need to rethink your…

If we meet in person, I'm dumping a king-size bucket of greasy popcorn down your pants, then giving you a wedgie.  Fair warning.

Saw it last night.  Bullock was really good, despite a script that really only gives her cliches (her backstory) and one major emotion (fear, and lots of it) to chew on.  The movie's good (if flawed), and she's good in it.

@test44444444444444:disqus  I don't read the show that way at all.  The way you choose to phrase that should probably warn me away from even responding, but basically, I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting someone with a milder form of autism or Asperger's as a regular, albeit damaged, human being who…

Wellllll… first of all, a lot of people that love it have played a LOT of poker.  So bear in mind that any halfway-good poker movie that represents that game well was going to get a leg up.

Oh, so you know you're trolling?  Awesome, I was afraid you'd have to be informed.

Exactly.  This is the same guy who didn't know what a "Radiohead" was.  He's in a very specific pop culture bubble and has zero interest in anything outside of it.