I too think downvoting is a terrible idea. I fucking hate Gawker and their self-congratulatory, bitingly-hip-snark filled, self-reinforcing commenting system. I don't want to be like that. And in many of the most interesting debates in the comments here there have been more than enough people fervently arguing one…

I find babies repulsive so those shots would probably elevate my sense of horror rather than seem emotionally manipulative.

That's actually one of the things I like about the movie, that your sympathies are never all in one place. In a lesser film, when Sam is fingering them as the boys who robbed her, we would be booing her because she "just doesn't get it." But instead it really does seem legitimate that they pay for mugging her. And yet…

I agree. Just saw it and I think it's my favorite of the year too.

Walt certainly doesn't lack professional lab experience. He worked at Los Alamos for some time.

This review is a little wack. The second paragraph in particular is so confusing. It doesn't seem like the show is really making any of these subtextual and psychological allusions.

Moombahton is literally named after a "derivative sample" though! (The eponymous song.) So I'm not sure how you can say that they are fundamentally different. But I really like the track you posted, and a bunch of other songs by that same artist that I just listened to. Thanks!

I admittedly squealed when I saw the trailer, I'm a big Harold and Kumar fan. Yeah, I was disappointed by the second movie too but the first one is so good. I hope this'll just be fun.

I don't really get moombahton either. It sounds just like favela/baile funk to me. That's not new.

I *didn't* like the script so much but liked the movie in general. I thought it was too deliberately jokey. I feel like a comedy where a lot of the humor is from absurd situations would work better with a more naturalistic script where the humor is from the contrast between the realism of characters' reactions and the…

The Social Network lived up to its "hype" for me (it didn't seem to me that it had any excessive hype though so perhaps I just didn't notice the "hype" and am therefore biased), I saw it like three times in a row

Colonel: I actually watched Four Lions this morning (coincidentally) before seeing this movie just now. Four Lions is probably a lot better but 30 Minutes isn't a bad movie. (The one thing that really pales in comparison is the script.) However I'm not really sure that you can say that Four Lions is any different in…

I was really excited for Your Highness but really disappointed. The only great joke was "I think he molested my brother" and some of the stuff with Natalie Portman, who was, unexpectedly, underused.

I feel like you guys are confusing comedic qualities (to the viewer) with appealing qualities (as a person). It's like the difference between getting a kick out of Clay Davis's "Sheeeit"s and actually liking Clay Davis. Gale has funny characteristics but an annoying, obsessive and sycophantic personality. (Plus he's a…

Maswa: Reminds me of when in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Feynman stole the door off some guys' room in his fraternity for a prank, and then when they had a serious sit down conference to determine who had stolen the door, when they came to him he went "Yeah, *I* stole the door" in a very exaggerated way and…

Gale did get on Walt's nerves! Not only was it clear on the show that he did, but Gale would get on anyone's nerves. But perhaps Walt was especially irked because he would have rather been working with Jesse, whom, even if he's not as perfectionistic a lab assistant, Walt cared about.

I too thought it added to the sadness of the scene that they were just playing video games.

I thought that scene carried at least a slight implication that Walt really WAS saying sorry in that moment (because it was his own ad lib and not Skyler's script), rather than Skyler being disappointed when she realized that he wasn't sincere.

Ah yes!

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I really liked her books but can't remember what the original impetus for body switching is in the original novel. Billions for Boris is my favorite. It has a magic TV set.