Also, am I the only one who finds the idea of people having sex outside of a committed relationship being movieworthy a bit dated? Didn't attachment-free sex lose its novelty some time during the Summer of Love?

I will continue to say all actresses are unattractive until I'm dating someone more attractive. So, for quite some time.

Thanks to toaster for bringing this thread back to center

Nothing fires up a bar full of hipsters like a passable karaoke rendition of "Punk Rock Girl."

I've always thought if For the Love of the Game was two hours of nothing but the baseball game with no flashbacks without the other 90% of the run time, it would have been a great sports movie.

I feel like a banker in this.

I'm going to guess there's at least some mid-30's and up folks in here who are holdovers from when the Onion was a print paper, the stacked copies of which showed up seemingly at random in public places around midwestern universities in the early 90s. At least that's how I found out about the AV Club.

Yeah, the treatment the Prince of Wales gets from his father before he dies in The King's Speech unfortunately takes it out of the running for high school play material.

Agreed on Thor and X-Men as solid entertainment if not movies I'll be talking about next year or even next month. Is it possible to hope to be pleasently surprised? That's pretty much how I feel about this flick based on trailers. I guess I'm more comfortable saying that than "I have high hopes for Transformers 3."…

Come straight here from the Drudge Report, eh?

I think a guy in the exact same position could write a book about the full life that sprang from the opportunities presented by his fame and we'd be making funny but hollow remarks about our own lives compared to his. I might write something like, "It's come to this, Screech's life is better than mine in every way. …

Travelling overseas made me realize that our political parties only really differ on second tier social issues. They are both, if you strip away the rhetoric, economic liberals as descibed above, and are both so close on most issues that during the late 80's and early 90's it seemed we were electing people to federal…

I discovered one of my favorite current events / political books, Politics Lost by Joe Klein, through a review here at the AV Club. It may have gotten the nod for the review through Klein being the Primary Colors guy, but I always got the impression a book didn't necessarily need a direct pop culture tie to get a…

The white guilt thing is just getting boring
I didn't know whether this was worth seeing or not, but this blog pushed me over the edge to making the trek from my house in the ass end of nowhere to catch this in 3D. I have to say Hollywood's latest technological marvel / white guilt trip delivered on both counts. I…

Nice, Sheltie.

The Feed for Senate. I used to love movies like this even though I find the makers generally repugnant because I thought they brought a fresh perspective or needed publicity to important issues, or shed light in dark corners The Man did not want us to look in too deeply. Then I thought about how easy it is to go off…

Thanks to all above for a thread that shows this site hasn't been completely taken over by people who think the pinnacle of intellectual achievement is to point out why everything's fucked up and call anyone who disagrees with that assessment a tool of The Man.

Perhaps like most intelligent, decent people they were smart and good enough to stay out of the cesspool that is our political process, and instead spent their lives doing something more noble than figuring out new ways to take billions from the taxpayers to give to defense contractors for equipment and services that…

One more vote in favor of 25th Hour. At the risk of ridicule, I'd say it's one of my favorite movies of all time, though I can certainly see how it's something you may or may not connect with, and not a universal touchstone. Even though there is not much explicit violence, it is one of the most emotionally brutal…

Your situation sounds similar to my best friend from high school, who is now a physicist working in Philadelphia in a lab where he is the only person born and raised in the United States. Although not an unabashed fan of all things American, he finds himself constantly defending or at least explaining how some of the…