How exactly is getting a haircut typical of another ethnic group worse than eating their style of food? And how in the hell do you know whether either the eater or haircut getter respects the relevant culture or not?

Although this season they really seem to be emphasizing the animal natures of the animal people which they never really did before. Mr. Peanutbutter hates tennis because nobody catches the ball and irrationally annoys skunks, the unnamed dog valet at the Italian restaurant loves planning catch, and Princess Caroline…

Yeah. The point was being GenX was a lot like what the Millennials are facing now. There were the same complaints from older people that the youths were lazy and entitled and the same complaints from the youth that there just weren't opportunities, leading to retreats from society.

Speaking of confusion of movie names (which another commenter did in regard to Before Sunrise), I maybe thought Bernie was a remake/reboot of the awful 1989 comedy Weekend at Bernie's, in which a couple of co-workers need to cart the corpse of their boss around to hide the fact that he died.

Plus, he'd have to redo his seahorse milk ads if he had a kid.

But the Weekend Update anchor thought it far more likely that Ben Affleck was doing the heavy intellectual lifting for the Good Will Hunting script while Damon did bicep curls. Sure, it’s hard to believe that, given their current social standings, anyone ever thought Damon was the douchebag in that duo.

Buffy is sort of weird case because in the first couple of seasons you can tell that it really was meant for teens — all the monsters were just obviously parables for problems that teens might face — Willow starts a flirtation in an Internet chatroom with what turns out to be a cyberdemon who attacks her — obviously a…

You mean Mac Tonight. Fun fact. In the initial commercials in the 1980s he was played by Doug Jones, who later on became famous (or at least as famous as you can be while acting with your face constantly covered in makeup or a mask) for playing monsters on TV and movies. Many of the monsters on Buffy and the X-Files,…

And did Adams ever simply show the public his genitals to disprove the claim? No? What did he have to hide?

Did LOST really have *anything* to say though? I was a fan of it at the time, but that's because I thought it was leading somewhere — the Dharma Initiative was such a fascinating idea — what exactly were they researching and how did the numbers tie into it? But instead it turned out none of that mattered and it was…

I think it takes a brave stance on the imprisoning children with psychic powers so they can spy and/or contact eldritch monsters issue. It takes great courage to critique what most people would see as perfectly normal actions of the Federal Government.

Fair enough. But "person of color"? It doesn't just mean anyone non-European in ancestry.

Er, Jesus (if he existed) was Jewish, and whatever ethnicity you believe the native ancient Egyptians were, Cleopatra was a Greek, being part of the ruling class that came in after Alexander the Great conquered Egypt.

You say that jokingly, but the part where Andre Gregory has a monologue about his adventures in Poland actually make you forget you are listening to a guy talking in a restaurant and make you really visualize the action.

Well, in The Last Crusade we see the Holy Grail is real in the Indy universe, so the Jews might not be the big man's favorite people anymore. Which is an interesting theological choice given Spielberg's Jewishness.

Most recent(-ish) John Carpenter has been pretty weak. But he made Halloween, The Thing, and Assault on Precinct 13, all masterpieces, and a fair number of other watchable movies, so things like Escape from LA and Ghosts of Mars (ugh) can be forgiven.

It's not really my "pet film", nor do I think it is without flaws, although I did and do enjoy it. I just don't see how anyone could find it dull unless they just didn't like Arthurian legend or something.

By modern standards, all 1980s films are "dull and plodding" because they don't have cuts every 5 seconds but actually linger over what's being filmed.

It also lives on for irony purposes. The idea of New York (and Manhattan in particular) as a crime-filled hellhole was a mainstay of 1970s-1980s cinema, which is pretty incomprehensible in the modern world of seeing it as a cool place that is basically unaffordable to non-stock brokers or trust-fund babies.

I was kind of shocked at the Excalibur diss. While even I, as a fan of the film, wouldn't claim it was anywhere near Raiders in quality, it was at least the equal of the B-movies like Escape from New York and The Road Warrior. It was really a touchstone for early 1980s fantasy movies and an reminder to the audience…