I think we as a society need to stop letting shitty people co-opt whatever they want and make it off limits to regular people. The alt-right shouldn’t just be able to “take” Pepe, and I’m still bitter about the Nazis ruining the swastika and toothbrush mustaches.

It isn’t the only Ghibli with an adult lead, but they are super rare. Only Yesterday and The Wind Rises are among them, and even Only Yesterday splits its time between adulthood and childhood. A couple others are borderline; I’m not sure what the age of Sophie is in Howl’s Moving Castle, for example. 

People seem to think that exploring humanity is the same thing as exploring the concept of emotions and compassion. They’re not. How can you make this story about humanity where all the main characters arent human? You would be making a story about what it’s like NOT to be human, I’d argue.

Porco Rosso tends to be labelled as minor-Miyazki (if not minor Ghibli entirely), but it’s actually my favourite. Excepting perhaps Pom Poko, it hits a balance between sad/funny like few animated movies I’ve seen, and I will go to bat for its Michael Keaton-led English dub any day. (There is, I would argue, also a…

I think PKD is a great but undisciplined writer, though I’m well aware it’s impossible to argue that kind of point in a comment section, let alone anywhere else. I’m sure some of the alleged shortcomings you allude to in his prose and plots are valid and the result of his drug use/writing quickly for money, but I’d…

Joke’s on you, they just CGIed an AV Club logo over an E! microphone

Are you suggesting this stuff might not deserve higher prominence on the homepage than Tom Petty’s obituary?

Minor correction: This article did not link HBO’s free video, which usually only covers the major talking point of the week (In this case it’s Forensic Science:

A Scanner Darkly is by a long, long yard the best actual adaptation of PKD’s books to the screen. (Blade Runner is obviously a classic, but as the article acknowledges, it’s barely any sort of adaptation at all.) That film is a near-miracle of perfect choices: from the semi-hallucinatory rotoscoping to Keanu’s spacey…

I think he says “Wait, you’re [fake name the robot is using]”, and then the andy corrects with “You’re confused, I’m [identity Deckard is hunting]”.

The novel is better, but the shortcomings of the film’s story are only known to the viewers who have also read the novel. People who have not read it don’t know the book world’s lust for empathy and want of animal life. The earth of the film is more like the world of 1982 than not like it. The book is the radical…

Doesn’t making Deckard a replicant negate the film’s ending where Rutger Hauer’s replicant lets him live out of regard for humanity? Hauer knows his clock is running out and he’s about to die, but instead of killing Deckard out of jealousy (self-preservation is now pointless) he acknowledges the beauty of life through…

I deeply respect the movie (and happily own the ludicrous collectors edition with a toy spinner and ridiculous five cuts of the movie) but the book is something else entirely.

The “further down the Wormhole” section sets up the next article in the series by following a chain of links away from the current subject.

I have to say I feel the same way. The original film has memorable visuals and music, and deserves its place in history; but is almost soporific in its slow pace and lack of emotion or drama (outside of a few scenes). I realise the general coldness of it is part of the point, but it makes it a difficult film to love,…

That’s how we like it.

It was me. I actually called a plot development. My life is complete!

I’ve always been amazed on how many younger people seem to think Snow Crash is a pioneering work of cyberpunk, though. I liked it okay, but having read Gibson and Sterling a decade before (not to mention seeing Blade Runner which was cyberpunk in all but the absence of cyberspace) made me understand that Stephenson…

I’ve never found the lack of a Snow Crash adaptation particularly baffling — I always assumed Hollywood was just really bad at casting/unwilling to cast a half-black, half-Japanese actor in the lead role for a major sci-fi movie (and that Snow Crash wasn’t quite popular enough for them to whitewash it).

I constantly call myself a gamer aloud at parties to be cool and then only reference things from the Super Mario Brothers movie.