@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus And Jesse is also the kid that Walt has all to himself. in other words, Walt might have been just as much of a jerk to Junior if Skyler weren't around to help suppress some of his bullshit.

I thought they said straight out that it was an amphetamine, or am I remembering something from the comic or the novelization? (Another Alan Dean Foster special, btw.)

I'm with you on the shotgun + greenhouse problem, but you can't really complain about lights in spacesuit helmets if you're going to watch any outer space movies at all. Every single one of them does that, on the theory that the audience might want to see the actors.

@avclub-33235e3d066bad95b6eea457826f7507:disqus Oh yeah, it was a great idea! And I'm a total sucker for a haunted house in space story! Plus, Laurence Fishburne! I was totally happy to cut that movie a lot of slack, but by the end I just wanted them to get a better director and writer, like by just randomly picking…

Yeah, I remember they wrote a big intro when they started the series, about how this was going to be a wild new experimental approach to a comics adaptation… so I was kind of disappointed to see that that just meant he was using a lot of two-page spreads and drastically limiting his layout options… which for me was…

Cell tower triangulation isn't necessarily very accurate, though; it depends on how many cell towers happen to be in your area and how far apart they are.

@avclub-35382975e1015bb4aaa14f7dc2d11cba:disqus Yeah, I think it's very important that Jesse is the only person who makes Walt feel like a successful teacher. And he's the only person who looks up to Walt because of stuff Walt did on purpose, as opposed to Junior looking up to him because he's Junior's dad.

@olivececile:disqus Jesse does know it was lily of the valley, but it still makes sense that Walt set up the Brock incident because everything about it served his purposes. The ricin disappeared right at the same time that Brock got sick, so Jesse would jump to the obvious conclusion, just when Walt most needed for…

@avclub-21260e960c42f13c051d7d2caa49748d:disqus Twitter didn't originally refer to them as hashtags, just tags; according to Wikipedia, Stowe Boyd popularized the term. Boyd is from the US as far as I know, but techies and tech journalists often pick up lingo that isn't necessarily from their own country but was used…

I think I've only seen three movies that semi-realistically depict what happens to people in a vacuum: 1. 2001 (very briefly, so nothing); 2. Sunshine (they had him freeze too fast, but at least he didn't blow up), and 3. that freaking ridiculous flick Event Horizon.

The quotes are helpful, but you can also indicate who you're replying to by typing @ and then selecting from the list of people in the thread, so you get @avclub-a64f770db8dc668f93db5788517d1bc0:disqus —which also triggers the "someone replied to you or mentioned you" notification to that user.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus Sure, I get that. And I don't take that review personally, I just thought it was poorly argued, but I think there's also something about that one in particular that almost encourages people to take it personally. It's his whole bit about how viewers who know it's a single take— which category…

I know I've gotten pretty pissy with you in other threads and I haven't even seen Funny Games, but I'm totally with you here— that scene is incredibly well done and horribly intense. And it doesn't feel to me like a commentary on movie violence at all; it's not toying with the audience's supposed desire for awful shit…

Oh shit, yeah, you're on to us: everyone secretly agrees with you, but just isn't letting on. It's impossible that anyone actually liked Cabin in the Woods without being aware of all the homages— or that horror fans ever dislike movies that contain homages they recognize, but aren't well-done or interesting in any…

What the hell? It's not as if audiences were unfamiliar with or shocked by the notion of a superficially charming madman until Heath Ledger came along and blew their minds. Anyway, Benoit in Man Bites Dog is really not that charming or eloquent; he's an egotistical thug who mostly just likes talking about himself and…

Personally, when people run over my dog I act differently than that.

@avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus Since you mentioned Kieslowski, have you seen Decalogue? Part II has an agonizingly long take that shows, in close-up, an insect landing on a glass of water (or maybe juice), exploring the inside of the glass till it steps too close to the liquid and falls in, and then…

@avclub-8e3d05b3a02cebcb45d304a5224a6113:disqus "To each his own"— well that's the whole thing, isn't it? You started out by saying that one single trip to Universal Studios as a kid has made it hard for you to enjoy "most" movies ever since, but I think it's safe to say that that's a somewhat unusual personal…

@avclub-e025b6279c1b88d3ec0eca6fcb6e6280:disqus FEM is in her 20s, so until a few years ago she was probably sleeping with guys who were (literally or mentally) teenagers. It's not unlikely that back then, she'd just never encountered a guy whose boner was at all dependent on his comfort level and/or attention span (I…

I've tried wearing photos in a speedo around my neck, but the photos keep falling out of the speedo. What's your secret?