*Sighs*

Bizarrely, the AV Club has a lot of love for "The Devil's Rejects" which is one of the most awful, morally reprehensible films I've ever seen. I've seen "A Serbian Film," and whilst it is extremely disturbing, it is well made and has a decent narrative. It's an infinitely better film than TDR partly because it isn't…

@avclub-6ca57d2774f04ac8acf3d2b10f0338f4:disqus  - Trey and Matt are libertarians, but they're also satirists. One of the key elements of satire is exposing hypocrisy. They weren't saying all films should be distributed for free. However in the case of "Bully" Weinstein was arguing that the "R" rating given by the…

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@avclub-1e01a864cb44d4bd2ce7739a5b3b78d0:disqus  - Hegel's notoriously impenetrable. Towards the end of his life Hegel himself supposedly said: "There's only one person who ever understood me. And even he didn't understand me."

Act one: Two attractive young women venture off on their own.

@avclub-35eca710783734c24b732c57f3943ad2:disqus  - The protagonist in Thinner is actually a massive douchebag though (from what I can remember) and so genuinely "deserves" his fate (at least by EC Comics standards). The protagonist of "Drag Me To Hell" does not.

The US TV show "The Killing" also has an unhappy ending too, as even though she's been responsible for some of the worst writing and plotting on a TV thriller for a long time, Veena Sud still gets to make a second series and go on believing she's awesome.

"Blood Meridian" is a fantastic novel, but it consists of an unhappy beginning, an unhappy middle AND an unhappy ending. In fact, as the ending remains somewhat ambiguous (although with an element of implied extreme horror), it could be argued that it is the least unhappy part of the book.

And then the aliens ate their faces.

Yep, although I'm glad they did - that dog deserved better. And in the retconned version the dog gets caught in an explosion so it isn't exactly "happy" either, but at least he didn't die waiting around for Fry…

I really enjoyed "Drag Me To Hell," but the ending felt a bit too mean-spirited and inconsistent given it seemed to be going for an EC Comics-style "morality play." The protagonist really doesn't deserve her fate - she made a mistake and tried to make amends but it was too late; she's not the thoroughly deserving…

Agreed on "Eternal Sunshine." The whole point of the movie is actually rather optimistic - relationships often end badly, but to erase the entire experience means losing all the good memories too. It's about making a choice as to what is remembered, so at the end the two characters have the chance to recognise the…

The novella. Sure, the world has probably gone to hell/they've been sucked into an extremely hostile alien dimension, but there might still be some survivors or a way to continue without getting horribly killed.

I thought Van Trier was the Einstein of transportation vehicle testing.

@avclub-359b8db60f379d36511e28c04a3fb0b6:disqus - I thought Ennis's Ma Gnucci Punisher (Welcome Back, Frank), whilst a lot more "fun" than the MAX run, still had a lot of dark, interesting ideas - Frank Castle's attitude to copycat vigilantes being one example.

Yeah, I enjoyed every action scene in that movie in a non-ironic way. The "emotional" stuff I could have done without however - it was too trite and didn't fit with the rest of the film's tone.

I remember reading (on here I think) that Thomas Jane's Punisher was too much of a "schemer," setting up Travolta's character etc. I tend to agree: the Punisher from the comics doesn't bother with elaborate plots to get the bad guys to kill each other; he just kills them himself,.

Yes, this review is atrocious. It reads like something a student would submit when he hasn't done the necessary research but still desperately wants to sound smart to impress his teacher.

The UK X Factor is not really a "singing competition" though. The majority of the acts make it through largely on "personal appeal" (after all, that's why the public votes for them). A lot of this personal appeal comes from their history and relatability, hence why those with sob stories or young fresh-faced…