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I feel like that opinion reflects a contextual misunderstanding of both The Hunger Games AND Battle Royale, as they both focus on enormously different sociopolitical issues despite their (admittedly) very comparable basic storylines. But maybe I'm off-base, here; can you clarify your point?

Certainly. But why can't they just coexist independently from one another, instead of being in a constant competition fabricated by two opposing fanbases? There's room enough in the film world for dueling asteroid disaster flicks and movies about talking CGI insects. I just don't see the need to pit two similar yet…

Great art - or even just good art - is a question of what was done best, not what was done first.

I somehow had no idea until now that it was Macy vs. Gooding, Jr. that year, and Macy lost. I'm not a huge fan of either Fargo or much of the Coen filmography in general, but holy hell. Macy was the linchpin of that movie, even more than Frances McDormand; so much of the narrative depended on the viewer truly…

AND SOMETIMES I STILL DO. DAMN IT.

I used to think I was so witty for referring to seasons 2 and up of TWD as Splatterhouse on the Prairie.

*helps my uncle jack off a horse*

What was it like having Neal Stephenson for a dad?

I'm assuming the climactic courtroom scene will be the two leads ravenously, literally devouring the set. Pacino will yell "OBJECTION!" and just start gnawing on the table he's sitting at, while Hopkins eats the witness stand. The scene will conclude no less than 45 minutes later, with the crew visibly wandering in…

The phrase "Quantico universe" fills me with reasonless rage.

Downvoted for making jokes about the Holocaust.

"Ray…Ray, are you crying again?"
"GET OUT!!!"

So can we all agree that the reason this show keeps getting resuscitated is how it must sound when pitched to a boardroom full of network execs? "She's a sexy lady detective with a perfect photographic memory! She can remember everything…EXCEPT THE NIGHT HER PARENTS WERE MURDERED!" And even though the series ended up…

Wait, Merlin's on Netflix?! thought it was only available from my parents' ancient VHS cabinet, on a blank tape with a label that has "MERLAN NBC" written in permanent marker underneath a crossed-out "ER FINALE". Unless we're talking about two different things.

"Howard Moon, colon explorer?"

They absolutely dominate the coveted "mummified corpse fused into a recliner by months of decay" demographic.

"We (peacock) the new flesh."

"In the explosive series finale of 'The Idon'tgiveashiterer", Detective Jay S. finally learns the whereabouts of his wife's murderer, then shrugs and goes home for a nap."

I assume this show got three seasons only because Nielsen boxes aren't programmed to recognize when viewers have died of natural causes in front of their televisions and are thus unable to change the channel. I have dubbed this phenomenon "the Blue Bloods Effect."