I never saw the first one, and although I very much enjoy Sean's sequel already, would my enjoyment be enhanced by actually watching Dan in Real Life? I know that he's a widower and that Everyone Poops is a major plot point, so…do I really need to know more?

Yeah, I think there was. But they both seemed to really enjoy their work, and sparring with each other, and the conflict really brought out a lot in their criticisms. They always had different points of view, and in their discussions on the show they brought up stuff that didn't make it into their print reviews. It…

In addition to all his other kinds of awesome, Roger Ebert was incredibly brave. His illness took so much from him - the ability to eat, for fuck's sake - but he went through all the treatments and surgeries while continuing to work. This blew me away; I know that facing the same situation I'd take the suicide route,…

I usually roll my eyes at the "oh, they are reunited in heaven" trope, but in this case, it's pretty moving. They seemed to have so much fun working together, and I for one don't see any reason why death should stop a person from watching a lot of movies.

Part of what made him special was how inclusive he was as a critic. A lot of critics set themselves above their readers, and treat them as though they've come to worship at the altar of their critical insight. There's little or no aspect of shared love of movies. Ebert was the polar opposite. His opinions were never…

Rowlf: Oh. Broken heart, right?
Kermit: [sadly] Does it show?
Rowlf: Listen, when you've been tickling the ivories as long as I have, you've seen a broken heart for every drop of rain, a shattered dream for every falling star.
Kermit: Exactly. She just walked out on me.
Rowlf: Ah, typical. That's why I live alone.
Kermit:…

I agree, @avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus 's true stories always brighten my day.

Okay, Jane Henson's obit has reminded me that Phil is actually pretty good at something: his obits are consistently solid. I still wonder why he's assigned so many reviews, but, yeah, gotta give credit where it's due.

@Scrawler2:disqus I don't think that most people complaining about Phil actually think his opinions shouldn't be welcome. It's just that his opinions are so overwhelmingly negative and delivered with such a supercilious tone that his reviews don't usually inspire much discussion beyond "wait, why does he hate this…

This movie is amazing. You hear the lovers-on-a-killing-spree premise and think you know what kind of movie you're about to watch, but then Malick just drops you into the characters' fully realized true-love-trumps-all fantasy world. There are a few little details that starkly present how far removed they are from…

The hate for Charlie Day annoyed me. Yes, Phil Dyess-Nugent is entitled to his opinion and gets paid to share it with us, but Jesus H Christ, is this guy ever not an insufferable, humorless dickbag? His negative opinions would be much more palatable if he ever had anything positive to say.

Yeah…does Phil Dyess-Nugent actually like anything? I assume he's written positive reviews somewhere on this site, but I've never actually read any of them. Even when he's reviewing things he claims to like - like South Park - he comes off as super-critical and no fun at all.

@avclub-2654adfd65b6ca4a8ac25a9f727d2262:disqus I think the Purple Wedding refers to Sansa's amethyst hair net thing.

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Whether or not they do the Red Wedding or the Purple Wedding in episode 9, I don't see how they could include both in Season 3. They're both events that are likely to take up an entire episode, and to have both in a 10 episode season with so many plotlines would make for a pretty unbalanced season, with a…

I agree about the letter grades - they can be completely useless a lot of the time, especially when the letter grade doesn't seem to match up with the actual content of the review. Since each reviewer has their own approach to the system, there's really no way to compare one writer's grades to another's.

Not to be bitch, but…do you really think it makes sense to question the letter grade of something you haven't even seen just because you think a different, totally unrelated show gets overly generous grades? Especially after reading the actual content of Sims' review, which is pretty damn specific about why this…

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I'm insanely afraid of heights, even fictional ones, and this sequence damn near made me choke.

I'm pretty sure @avclub-1e2184e9a38acddfb65b66905ad70f9a:disqus is right; the creepy pedo-werewolf "imprints" on the creepy newborn. That's what it said in Wikipedia, which is as close to Twilight as I'm willing to get.

I bet Stephanie Meyer was intending it to be a story about how love transcends one's physical form and is super spiritual blah blah blah, but it ends up just being unbelievably creepy. Like the newborn/werewolf thing.