"RIP Blockbuster?" more like Rot In Hell if you ask me.

it's good.

and Captain Phillips will only make them afraid of Somali piracy, and the cruise industry can't have that.

that's why I suspect it's more likely a bug in the disqus software. I'm not gonna rule out the possibility that some obsessive asshole is going around downvoting every single comment on every article, but it seems at the very least logistically problematic.

old people don't like blacks or lesbians. well, except for old blacks and lesbians, but they're GLAAD and the NAACP's problem. and don't even get me started on old black lesbians. GEEZ, PICK A SIDE WILLYA?!

I dunno, I think a young man could do the job better.

I think the snark is rooted in their having the temerity to select a film purely on the basis of it's superficial characteristics, with no regard to it's quality. much the same way nobody really puts a whole lot of stock in what fundamentalist Christian groups think are the best movies of a given year.

hey, worked for autism and ADD! now if you aren't one, you're almost certainly the other. especially if you're a child. now everybodies mentally ill! what used to be considered mere personality types are now illnesses to treat with expensive drugs… or potentially for the untalented, dull and powerful to marginalize…

whatever, psycho, go dessicate your mother like you people do all the time in your motels.

you're talking to the proud author of 2 Guys, A Girl, And TWO Pizza Shops!

so I'm curious: did Stephanie Counts utterly unique experience of moving out after she found her husband was having an affair happen before the same plot was used in the first episode of Friends, or after the same plot was used in the first episode of Cheers?

"special Vulcans" are Vulcans who are only as smart as humans.

I'm so white, when I go walking down the street in a nice neighborhood I don't get shot.

you know what, nevermind. it would seem that almost every single comment in the whole thread had exactly one downvote. this means that either one person is going down the list and indiscriminately downvoting every single comment, or it's a bug in the disqus software that's auto-downvoting comments. but I'm convinced…

okay, just what is the reasoning behind this downvote? are you racist against people with tooth-gaps or something?

Obama!

you know what's really improved by academic study? comedy. get's rid of all those pesky laughs that obscure ones appreciation of the form.

[SPOILER WARNING] I'll give you a spoiler warning.

I have a Letterman-esque tooth gap, and no school photographer ever believed me that I would look better smiling closed mouth.

I gave you a spoiler warning.