@avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus OK, so you're arguing that "neo-Nazi" should only ever be used for people who are literally trying to do exactly what Hitler did— and that violent racist paramilitary dipshits who idolize Hitler, and proudly proclaim similarly insane notions of racial supremacy, but…

@avclub-71509159b88c7d1e8df636223ac0dc57:disqus You make them sound kind of heroic and misunderstood. I'm going out on a limb here, but is it possible that the perception of the Aryan Brotherhood as being in some way Nazi-like might not be entirely due to prejudice against prison inmates, but also have something to do…

Are you making a really unfunny joke, or just a nonexistent point? There's no organization called "the Neo-Nazis"; it's a general term for modern white supremacists who use Nazi imagery. The Aryan Brotherhood is a prison gang who are also neo-Nazis, just as New Kids on the Block were a boy band who were also alien pod…

@avclub-51096670a18de3dbac0e197cf09db6da:disqus Indeed, when people aren't as concerned as you are about 1. "movements not looking right" (meaning what?), and 2. a brief moment of something in a trailer with no context as to what's happening or why, that's exactly like them not giving a shit about anything.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Well yeah, I did realize you were being sarcastic there; it was unlikely that you really thought your own opinion was invalid. So? The sarcasm is pointless unless you think "people here don't take anyone seriously unless they like Children of Men" is a real thing to any…

Petulant responses bug me too, but so do vague straw-men. People gave D'Angelo shit for that article for many reasons, only a few of which were as stupid as "he didn't like the movie and I liked it." And plenty of commenters have said they weren't crazy about Children of Men without being chased away with pitchforks;…

@avclub-f8665a36d5a911922da81a12443887ed:disqus Oh no, sarcasm! I'm wounded! What the fuck ever. Carry on venting, but please note you just insisted on arguing with someone who wasn't even talking to you in the first place just because you saw your name (neutrally) mentioned; not at all infantile, that.

Why should I care that Narrator's comment happened to be "the very first" one? Most of your argument (and all of what Londoneer said, which is what I was responding to), was based on people obsessing about grades. Narrator didn't do that, even in your paraphrase (and who paraphrases a six-word comment?) and neither…

Yeah, there's definitely a baroque quality to Chronicles— just the sheer amount of weird, dark, unexplained shit, and the way it kind of suggests a really large scope and backstory to the universe even though most of it isn't followed through on, and (as someone else mentioned around here, I think) the focus on…

@avclub-b5706dc9508d67a01718c142ca80b8b4:disqus I don't know, it looks to me like a career full of ups and downs, like many writers. I mean, he wrote some other not-so-memorable stuff in between Blade Runner and Unforgiven, and he co-wrote Twelve Monkeys right before Soldier. Soldier just happened to be the last thing…

The only thing Pitch Black has in common with "Nightfall" is that on a planet orbiting multiple suns, it wouldn't get dark very often. That wasn't a new idea in Asimov's time, and it wasn't what made the story memorable; the hook in "Nightfall" is the idea that human beings who lived in such a place would be…

@avclub-b5706dc9508d67a01718c142ca80b8b4:disqus Not being sure whether a total stranger was kidding or not, and hence writing a misguided but polite two-line response that was also a weak semi-joke, isn't even close to being the most embarrassing thing I've ever done here. If you've managed to get through life without…

I see only three or four comments here, not counting yours and @avclub-f8665a36d5a911922da81a12443887ed:disqus's, that say a damn thing about the grades. The other zillion comments are complaining about stuff other than grades: the reviewers' digs at other movies we have seen, wrong factual statements, gripes about…

@nummymuffincookoobutter:disqus I'm a huge nerd, and I still can't manage to get worked up about whether movement in microgravity* "looks right" in a movie that wasn't actually filmed in space. I have no idea what Kevin's point about stuff falling into the atmosphere was supposed to be, but I usually wait till I see…

There was "some buildup of resistance to it" almost universally; the same is true if you use any single antiretroviral drug by itself. That problem was only solved (though "solved" isn't really the right word— obviously treatment is still not good enough) once there were enough different drugs, each attacking the…

@avclub-b5706dc9508d67a01718c142ca80b8b4:disqus Huh? I'm having an OK time. Or were you worried that I would hurt my brain thinking about the vastness of the cosmos?

AZT is somewhat effective in some cases but could be dangerous too, especially in the days when everyone was pretty much guessing about dosage and there was no such thing as combination therapy. But yeah, the way the reviewer put this is really misleading, and borders on character assassination of everyone who was…

@avclub-ec160682cb3586d851071e80ec63d6c0:disqus Pacific Rim isn't set in space. I mean, unless you count everything on Earth as also being in space, since the Earth is traveling through space…

"Lingering sentimentality may be partially responsible for the good reviews bestowed upon Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said"— followed immediately by a positive review of Enough Said. In other words, all those other people probably liked it for the wrong reasons, unlike us.

I just checked my copy of Cronenberg on Cronenberg, and he doesn't mention the landlord thing at all as far as I can see— not with Shivers, nor with Rabid. However, he does talk about Shivers generating a fair amount of controversy and pressure on the CFDC, whereas about Rabid he just says it was "released and…