The worst is when you find yourself liking him — not when he's pretending to be a better man than he is, but in that scene between him and Lord Thomas, for instance, and when pouring the claret out the window. He is most certainly not a "lovable bad guy," but there are elements of his character that are admirable and…

I think it's important to note that Claire didn't say she felt more comfortable just because she was amongst English people, but because she was amongst English soldiers. Claire was until recently a part of the British Army, which I think helps explain both her unusual forthrightness even for a mid-20th century woman…

That's a really good idea. Thank you!

So this is tangential, but I really want to know:

That's an either/or fallacy. As has been repeatedly stated, abuse victims stay with their abusers ALL THE TIME, whether the abuser is an NFL star or a janitor. While, yes, it is certainly possible that she's just protesting the loss of her gravy train (though that seems somewhat unlikely, since my understanding is…

Yeah, that piece was weird. I tend to fall for the IMPORTANT TOPIC pieces even when I'm aware of and irritated by how emotionally manipulative they are (looking at you, cancer dance), but that one just felt faintly patronizing and Lionel Richie video to me.

I don't even watch the show; I just read the reviews.

I (with lady parts) got to talking with one of my male students about video games the other day, and a few other students drifted over, and when I looked around I was delighted to notice that our little nerd corner was about half and half, gender-wise. So for whatever this anecdotal evidence is worth, amongst college…

Yeah, I should have known better, but multiple reviews referred to it as "Persona-like," and I fell for it. As it turns out, though, it's like they took the best parts of Persona and somehow made them terrible.

Through my shirt, of course . . . for some reason.

I played Conception on my Vita well after I had to acknowledge that the game is terrible in most respects, but particularly awful in its shameless treatment of the protagonist's harem of very young, fawning girls with whom he gets naked (only the girls are shown naked, naturally) and makes "star babies" for the good…

I don't feel like getting into this debate. I just wanted to say that I've decided to play Tetris right now thanks to this thread. I hope my NES lets me! It has final say, which is what makes the NES so enduringly awesome. "Oh you want to play Tetris? Sorry, the only thing that works in me tonight is Skate or Die for…

I love when actors are super enthusiastic about other actors, like this guy with Bryan Cranston and that aside about some Aidan Quinn movie that didn't have anything to do with anything. I got the impression this guy just really loves movies and actors and being an actor, and I find that adorable.

It was definitely something about that scene, though not the recording itself. I just need to re-watch the damned movie, don't I?

I am never sure I didn't dream it.

Oh God, when he begs something to the effect of, "Let me have this," knowing it will do no good, it's just heartbreaking, especially in retrospect.

I think it's important to view it through the lens of the Fisher King story, particularly as it applies to modern manhood. The king is wounded as a young man (traditionally, this wound is in the thigh or the "generative area"); he feels no joy, and his kingdom dies around him. At the beginning of the film, Jack is the…

I really really wanted to like Doomsday, but I couldn't get past some gaping plot hole. It's been too long since I saw the movie for me to remember what ruined it for me; I just remember my friend accusing me of "nitpicking" the plot when there was at least one point at which it made ZERO sense for the heroine to [do…

I'm sorry to hear that, Pastafarian.

I am not necessarily criticizing The Normal Heart; as I said above, I have never seen it and know nothing about (beyond what I was subsequently told). I was talking more about a general phenomenon in which we turn a variable lived experience into a Cause and somberly yet enthusiastically applaud anything that deals…