I read the article about that in the New Yorker (I think) and it sounded really interesting. I've never heard of anyone here watching it though, so, cool.

I am the same way in that I am incredibly reactive to any perceived criticism, but in your case, you are definitely not in the wrong, and anyone who actually goes so far as to leave a note in that specific circumstance has too much time on his or her hands.

Oh, I forgot to comment on the out-of-timeness of Stoker in my post about it on the first page. I really liked that. I love how it is basically set in the 60's even though it's supposed to be 2012. I thought, actually, the high school d-bags contributed to the anachronistic feel too, because they were old-school…

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Also, thanks guys. Today I formally concluded a friendship with someone that I should have done a long time ago, but it wasn't possible until things came to a previously unthinkable nadir on Friday night. We were drunk when we met and one or both of us has been fucked up for every single one of our subsequent…

SPOILERS: Ah, ok. Yeah, that didn't bother me so terribly because I feel like having that be the case was just the necessary prerequisite for the stuff to happen in the movie. I'm not very picky about plot though.

I've seen Thirst, which I thought was OK but not fantastic, but perversely none of the vengeance movies even though I've been meaning to see Oldboy for basically forever. This has definitely made me kick Oldboy toward the top of my to-watch list.

That's true, but I also think that's true of many horror movies. I was telling my friend I saw it with (who thought it was OK, but didn't like it anywhere near as much as I did) that I think this is in some ways a fundamental problem with horror/suspense movies. In many cases the suspense is created by the fact that…

I just signed up for Letterboxd but I've seen relatively few movies so I doubt I will do anything with it. It did remind me of my perennial problem with rating movies on Netflix or IMDb or wherever which is whether to rate according to how technically good I think it is or how much I loved it. Like on an objective…

Saturday I went to see Stoker and today I saw Lore. I thought that Stoker was amazing and that it is the best new movie I've seen in at least a year if not longer. I saw In Darkness around this time last year but that's the only major competition I can think of. I don't want to say anything specific about it for…

Wait, I don't understand. I thought that the definition of the word "furries" was people who are sexually attracted to the idea of a person wearing an anthropomorphic animal costume and/or pretending that they actually ARE the anthropomorphic animal character, or who are turned on by cartoon or fictional…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus That is possibly the most fucked-up thing I have ever heard in my life.

@avclub-b210215075f68e712aa3d04c9269aea8:disqus I just clicked through twelve damn pages of a "biting tables" google search. I did not find any porn. Most of it is about babies and dogs (let me reiterate that this was not porn).

That was a really nice turn of phrase. I especially like the way you italicized "cranking."

Yeah, I clicked on that, realized I didn't want to see it, and closed the window. Yay me.

Although this is at about 220% level fucked up, I do agree that if it weren't non-sexual it would take it down to about 200%. That kind of thing always really gets me too.

I hate knowing these words!

I'm pretty hungover as is but this thread has made me actively more nauseated.

I don't really understand why it's become a thing. Isn't it just a kid show with cartoon characters? I know that there are plenty of kids show that grownups like (I like the Hanna-Barbera cartoons) but I don't understand why it's become a "fandom." My best guess right now is that it seems so perverse for adult men to…

Yeah I think it's a word people most commonly use to describe themselves. In contrast I'd say that "fetish" is the word which can (but doesn't necessarily have to) sort of carry the implication of "not my thing, someone else's."