It's been a while since I watched TNG.

An AV Club planet surrounded by a Dyson Sphere could be pretty nice.

Polanski, Bertolucci, Jodorowsky, Allen, Peckinpagh, Kubrick….it's especially pronounced in the European directors, but, yeah, it seems pretty international.

Nor should they. Context is one thing, excuse is another. Especially if, decades later, they remain unrepentant or blithely unaware.

Eh, I'm really speaking to the more stereotypical "European sensibility" from some of those "auteurs" from that era.

So much of Bertolucci's words seemed tinged with "but…Brando did it too!" like he's trying to shrug it off as NBD while trying to make it look like his hands were always clean.

This is a whole other conversation….

Well, it's how we define "rape" in this sense. There was clearly a sexual violation of some sort and sounds pretty darn close to what I'd qualify as a rape. Where the absolute blame rests can get weirdly divided, but ultimately comes down to Bertolucci not being able to humanely coax an emotional performance. As for…

Bertolucci was always as good as his cinematographers. Last Tango had beautiful Storaro images, but you could easily find them in a better film of The Conformist, and without all the creepy sex shit.

Worst part of it was "Thankfully, it was just one take."

Last Resort.

Just typing "User blocked" seems like a perfect gimmick for Vogon to take up here on out.

I agree. He seems like the kind of guy who is going to operate by a billion people telling him what to do every moment, from policy to how to shit.

Yes, but eventually that person has to fall asleep.

Nothing should be off limits. That said, when a joke like that is constructed, it should have something to say. There wasn't a real punchline; it was an "amirite, folks?"

There are plenty of solid jokes featuring gender identity that folks can come up with that don't feature haranguing people who identify as those genders or discount how everything is shit for them in the current political climate.

Shit, Internet Film School was always one of my favorite columns on here, and I had wondered where it had gone.

We're on a conveyor belt to hell at this rate of shedding brilliance and taking on assholes. Is this our new rapture? Our new dogs going nuts before an earthquake?

Human flesh.

Christ, another gimmick….