Second time this week!
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In the original (spoiler, I guess?), Urquhart puts poison in his drug supply and leaves him to inject it himself. While in general this character is handled MUCH better than in the original, that murder method would have made a lot more sense. I guess for some reason they really wanted to parallel the…
"She's just so unpleasant. Every time she comes on screen, my blood boils."
Being from Mississippi, it's no wonder they sang the blues.
Oddly, it was part of the original Bill of Rights, and after a UT-Austin student got a poor grade on a paper arguing it could still become law, he organized a grassroots movement to get 3/4 of states to ratify it.
What's this about Justin Bartha?
I guess that explains why Ang Lee got the Best Director nod and Affleck didn't.
And Captain Dada!
"G" and "PG" were pretty expansive categories until the 1980s. Movies with violently charged sex scenes or even actual nudity were rated G or PG (e.g. Planet of the Apes, The Hospital, Ragtime, the re-released Gone with the Wind), while legitimate dramas were rated X (e.g. Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, Medium…
The Peter Lawford to George Clooney's Frank Sinatra, as it were.
I think what confuses me is that people are acting like The Following is just an endless string of torture porn. It's not a great show, but it's not that either. It's not about putting us in the mind of a serial killer and letting us vicariously enjoy the sense of power of intimidating and murdering people. (If…
It sounds like the violence did have a genuine impact, then.
Actually, during the GOOD seasons of L&O:CI, it was almost never about mentally ill people. The show's recurrent focus was to zero in on things we've all felt — usually frustration at the way we've been let down by friends, lovers, and family members — and blow the stakes up until we can see how they would explode…
You're getting at something interesting, which is that a) American culture is bizarrely obsessed with both committing and justifying violence, and b) this is reflected both in TV shows and in generations of critical praise for violent TV shows and movies and lack of interest in works that are "just" about…
My question is how a site that routinely praises The Vampire Diaries — a show that uses stabbings and neckbreakings as a form of punctuation, which routinely shows killed people popping back to life, which romanticizes cold-blooded murder of innocents as a form of growing pains, which has an unrepentant killer as its…
Yes, "obvious mental issues" that are complete separate in origin and yet just happen to surface whenever someone becomes a celebrity with access to controlled substances and no one around to say "no" to them. It's amazing how often those two thing just happen to co-occur!
Rabbit-Proof Fence: an XXX Parody
Or, perhaps, the voice of David Hyde Pierce.