I've pulled myself through the first two volumes as well. I mostly enjoyed it, but is anyone else a little bothered at the vagueness of the war itself. It feels like they wanted to explore a star-crossed love and a fantasy setting, so they set the background at "WAR" that's so generic it needs a UPC bar code. No…

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if he's a billionaire.

You know, I'm beginning to suspect the guy's got issues.

The point, @avclub-bd282ef25a82fc6ff53e2b80d656deea:disqus isn't whether the explanation you're talking about is accurate or not. The point is that just about everyone got the same idea from the small bit of dialogue they heard. If all of us are wrong about this, the idea the film tries to put forward is still a…

Taking out the mystical technobabble means that the actor has to actually have to register a facet of personality besides "twerp". Meaning (not to pick on the poor kid), Lucas has to be capable of writing a character with at least two personality traits and a relationship between two human beings that is at all…

Oh, absolutely. When are they going to learn that making billions of dollars with their business model just doesn't work in the long run?

It's almost like they're working novelists or something.

Alas, we Jews have to be satisfied merely with having huge endowment and being great at cunnilingus.

I, myself, have already developed a "Harry-Potter-style" invisibility cloak that REALLY WORKS as long as you are wearing clothes that exactly match both the invisibility cloak and the wallpaper and you hold your breath and don't move and everyone in the room looks away from you and you are already invisible. It's…

Bojo?

Ditto for Jordo. The video quality was hideous from day one.

That montage is lifted directly from a documentary called "Ethnic Notions" that does a far superior job talking about racial stereotypes in American media, That piece is where Lee undoubtedly got the inspiration for this film. I'm sure the clip is used with permission, but you can't really credit Spike Lee with…

Huh. Movie characters drive in cars. What a brain-melting observation.

I see Kronk more as a best man kind of thing.

Can you enjoy watching the documentary without having seen Boondock Saints? I'm curious, but it doesn't seem to me like one justifies the other.

It's not so much that I have a problem with stereotypes, as they seem to have all migrated to the same stereotype.

Sorry, there's a rather imposing African-American woman named Martha here who would like a word with you.

I definitely agree that nerdy documentaries are boring except for the nerdy documentaries that aren't boring.

I thought the only people who "stand on a ledge" these days are in New Yorker cartoons. We have the most amazing and lethal medication these days. Get with the suicidal times!

I dunno. The way I see it, late life development of clinical depression must be holy hell to endure. You haven't built up a lifetime of coping mechanisms that can pull you out of the mind-numbing black pit. But still he held on for five years beyond the heart surgery that triggered all this, then —— life sentence. …