Gladiator hasn’t aged well. 

I realize Dan’s M.O. is not just to call the letter writer a bad person for this, and that’s fine. But I do think a basic “statistically, this probably isn’t going to end the way you hope it will” is both 1.) within the realm of his previous advice and 2.) true in this case.

I just want to thank whoever did the posting of this for not making it a slide show.

Don’t recall the source, but I remember reading an interview around the time that film came out wherein Clooney described his hesitance to take the role-- “I’m not sure I can be that dumb.”  To which the Coens responded: “...we think you can.”

It really does! The supporting cast is great and the EVIL CORPORATE WEATHER GUYS are ridiculous villains but you also really want to stick it to those goons. Solid work from everyone involved.

Letter 3 really confused me coming from a lesbian, because it showed so much ignorance of all the reasons why marriage equality was such a fight - people kept trying to get the gay community to settle for civil unions and other half-measures, but those didn’t offer all the rights and protections that a legal marriage…

What I’m feeling, and I read support for this in your reply, is that its really easy to be decent when there are zero stakes. Having been a cheater, nurturing the side relationships are...blissfully simple. The constraints of an affair make it that way. There is so much hard work you don’t need to do with a side…

“christ, you’re the other woman right NOW!”

I think #3 is trying to maybe reconcile with the fact as a lesbian she knew about the fight for years and years to get the right to marry another woman and after experiencing it didn’t see what the big deal is, for her. She is trying to match her experience with marriage with the greater need for LGTBQ+ people to be…

Requiem For A Dream? Quills? Meet The Parents? I had forgotten how sadistic a year this was.

The short answer to Letter 3 was “lots of reasons that don’t matter to 26 year olds with stable jobs and no kids.”

I recently re-watched Twister, which I hadn’t really seen since it came out and had classified as amusingly dopey cheese, and it is that but it’s also a good movie and aside from a few effects not being state-of-the-art anymore really hit that sweet spot of 90s look.

If there were ever a context where the word “panties” was warranted, I think “masturbation aid” is it.

Kinda like certain Scorcese movies (Casino, Goodfellas, Wolf of Wall Street). You get drawn in by the fantasy of being rich, well-dressed, respected, answering to nobody, and desirable to women. There are few men on Earth who are all set with the amount of money, sex and power they currently have.

Agreed. Leaving the ethics of it aside, what she wants is advice on how to do something that just isn’t a good idea. Yeah, maybe it’s theoretically possible that OP could get the doctor to either leave his wife or twist her arm into blessing the affair and everything would work out in the long term, but what’s much…

So strange how people don’t like it when “anyone” does X but only mention it when particular people do X. Also, all I can think about is long-time Onion columnist Smooth B.

American Psycho much like Fight Club has a message, but the often loud fanbase seemed to have missed the point. High Fidelity and from 99' Election seem to suffer from this too. The sort of thing that made Dave Chappelle run away and rethink he whole career in ways. 

Yeah, I don’t get how neither the letter writer or dan seem to once mention the cheated-on wife.  We only have Dr Sad Marriage’s word on how withholding/whatever she is, for all we know that could be a complete fabrication, and in either case, the letter writer is actively engaged in hurting another person, who she…

Walton Goggins effing rules. I will watch anything he does. And every time, my wife says, “Who’s that?” And I say, “Walton Goggins.” And she says, “That’s not a real name.”

I will never understand the compulsion of politicians and commentators to use their platform to declare art offensive like this. It never ever goes well. The best case scenario is that you increase the exposure of the thing you’re trying to denounce. At worst you become permanently associated with the thing you’re…