I think the lesson here is that it's best if society doesn't get too polarized one way or the other?

Oh she's all for it. But she was raised in an old-fashioned household.

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As a man, the gender dynamic he describes here just sounds… awful. Why do these misogynists want to do things this way? Paying for everything and having to beg for sex, all while subjugating someone you claim to love. Yeah what a fucking paradise.

Alec Guinness will give him an autograph, but only if he promises never to watch Star Wars again.

You're underestimating my contempt for Shyamalan's movies. But, yeah, I do remember The Deer Hunter. I just don't think I could respond productively to an in-depth criticism based on my one-viewing recollection from several years ago.

Oh come on: jamboxdotcom was being shitty. Let's end it there.

Yeah, it's not a huge barrier, and like I said, I'll probably watch them eventually, and I'll probably enjoy them. But there's a lot stuff to watch, you know?

Wasn't it also child murder in Battle Royale? And yeah, I have been convinced that Mockingjay Part 1 was a letdown and that the prior movies are better. I don't really have a rational reason not to watch them and I probably will eventually. My irrational reasons not to watch are two:
I always hear her name as…

I was dragged to Mockingjay part 1. The only thing I knew about the series was "kind of like Battle Royale, but with… hunger?" Of course I had no idea what was going on, but I could still tell it would be boring even if you had the proper context. Everyone says the other ones were better, but I'm not exactly eager to…

Right? When we go out hiking everyone's wearing shorts and they act like I'm crazy for wearing jeans and boots. "Won't you be hot?" Then they bitch about mosquitoes and thorns the whole time.

It happened a few weeks ago with the Vonnegut memorial post. My best guess: some glitch in the algorithm is throwing some most-read-of-all-time posts in instead of the intended most-read-today posts.

Check out Cappadocius' reply to my comment. They're talking about Bedouins, but I think that logic would apply to cowboy garb too.

The actory-ness is a result of cinema being pretty new. It was still borrowing heavily from on-stage conventions, which are necessarily more BIG and ACTING. It took time for cinema to form its own language and conventions that account for the fact that you can have a close-up and actors don't need to project to the…

Sure if it's a hot day in the neighborhood and you want to go to the beach, you strip down to stay cool. But when you're talking about serious heat and sun over long periods in the desert, you actually need some of that gear for protection from the elements. Same reason Asian desert dwellers wear robes and head wraps.…

The only Cimino I know is Deer Hunter, which I've only seen once and don't remember well enough to debate its merits point-by-point. However I am confident that it is an entirely different league than anything Shyamalan could ever hope to produce. If you disagree, I don't think we have enough common ground to even…

That would be horrible. Daryl is just Rick, except more dreamy and always right. At least there's some conflict with Rick's character. If Daryl was lead character every mission or goal would proceed thus:

This turned into a bit of a debate. I did want to point out one more difference in interpretation that I missed in my first response RE: "You didn't even tell me I had the powers." I took that in exactly the same way I took "I've never killed anyone" and "How could I know when it was rape?" That is, self-serving…

The big difference is that the Sixth Sense wasn't even that good. The stars aligned and his plot-twist gimmick landed with audiences, but he had nothing else to follow it up with in the next movie. His only legitimate talent is visual style. He should be working in some role that allows him to use that in the service…

I got confused because Rick was building with wood for a chunk of the episode and I linked that with the tower in my mind. "Why do they keep cutting back to the tower? Oh, Rick must be repairing it. No, he's making a brace for the fence. He must be taking wood from there. But isn't it outside the fence? Oh, nevermind,…