Just a word on E, I always get a bit nervous when Malick films are mentioned in terms of religion. Is Malick deeply religious?  I guess no one is really sure. But as a philosopher myself, I find it a bit unlikely that he would undergo such a crazy philosophical education/career, write a translation of Heidegger, and…

The rats are definitely just a chance for the show to do something more conventional. The zany quota is filled already—because, rats!—so it can be about something mundane like getting a new apartment

I wish avclub would stop trying to make "manic pixie dream girl" happen

Academy Members. Nominate me.  Refuse to acknowledge that I'm one of the best pictures ever made. To the end of time.

You take that beautiful flag off your goddamn traitor hat, sir.

Cannot unsee. Like every time he pops up in Parks, "shit it's a SEAL!"

I just heard about this movie today. Laura Dern + Lynch, sounds promising

I know no one in my family owned slaves because it's a long line of dirt poor German farmers and filthy Canucks, but that doesn't mean I know they were abolitionists or progressive.

Shakespeare in Love

I was going by reactions on tumblr, which is not a great metric, but the majority of the complaints were centered around the ending, the transformation of the alien, etc.

I'll give you amour, but I feel like that was such a token nomination that never had a chance, it almost proves the point more. I wouldn't say there was much ambiguity about Beasts, maybe the question of whether the lifestyle these people were living was at all admirable or just backwards and ignorant, but I wouldn't…

I think it was in natural born killers, where a character says, “I’m making a statement. I’m not entirely sure what I’m saying, but I’m making a statement.” I feel like that's the most personal line of dialogue tarantino ever wrote.

I don't know, seems pretty clear to me that it's business as usual.
"I know a man in Albany who can help with [buying votes using public positions]" -the secretary of state
"Senators are cheap!" etc -a person whose job is to bribe politicians

Another theme this season is how much Americans hate ambiguity. I remember David Chase going a little crazy because people had to know, did the Russian die? Did he start a war with Tony? (And that was before the ending.) Eventually, I think he said something like I know what happened to the Russian, but I'm not…

I used them to ensure another 200 episodes of anger management

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I completely agree with you, but you have to realize that Americans have basically accepted that that's the price of having guns and that's okay. As the onion put it, "Right To Own Handheld Device That Shoots Deadly Metal Pellets At High Speed Worth All Of This"

Ha when my dad was kid he used to kill groundhogs with one of WWII/Korean vintage. I don't think it's too ridiculous to own one, even though it does take hi-cap mags and is technically an assault rifle.

Yes that's 8000+ per 300 something million people. Not that that's not appaling, but it's different from a murder rate of 8000 per 100,000, which is a genocide.

Carbine or garand?