He just poisoned him a LITTLE. Just to manipulate a friend into helping him murder someone. Someone who had helped his friend turn his life around after the love of his life died under, uh, circumstances.

That's how I remembered it, too, but I rewatched recently and Bodie does pull the trigger. Poot just steps in to end Wallace's suffering.

Masturbation is so complicated now.

So, wait, in the future there are going to be 10 women for every man? Is this what people mean when they say that feminism is good for both men and women?

Across from a Belgian playing a highlander. While pretending to have difficulty understanding the Scottish accent.

Stop. I'm about to blow your mind. What if there was more than one baby. And all of the babies were geniuses. I'll take my millions now, please.

This is the best description of Hegel, and it will always be the best description of Hegel.

Ironically, Michael White would be a great name for Jail Courtney. A little on-the-nose, I guess, but totally apt.

Every time I see the name Jai Courtney, I remember "Oh yeah, there's a guy named Jai Courtney who in spite of the name is an incredibly bland white Australian." I then promptly forget that Jai Courtney exists.

A preliminary injunction is literally called an "extraordinary remedy." It's a high bar. You don't get to win on your civil suit before winning on your civil suit if you can't meet the standard, and by all appearances, she failed to.

Just FYI—you don't file a preliminary injunction, you request a preliminary injunction. An injunction is a remedy, like getting money, so saying you filed it is like saying "the prosecutor filed a 10 year sentence" or "the plaintiff filed a $10 million judgment."

I think what makes an accent a good comedy accent is its ability to provide emphasis or facilitate misdirection. One of the great things about AAVE, as developed by black American comedians, is that it allows for an incredible range of pronunciations, emphases, intuitive slang. A lot of this is because codeshifting…

I mean, it's insane to argue that one accent is inherently better than another for comedy, but I'm going to do it anwyay. Several American accents are inherently funnier than any Scots accent I've ever heard. AAVE, Catskills yiddish, thick Boston (or whatever Bill Burr is)—all better for comedy. Most Scots accents,…

Immersive. I see what you did there.

There were a few groaners, but I thought it was largely a pretty good story about an amateur sailor who got in way over his head. I wouldn't call myself an avid sailor, but I have sailed for some time now.

I'm pretty sure the ending is meant to be anticlimactic. If you wanted to boil the movie down to a couple of points, I think it'd be something like "Revenge is an ultimately futile endeavor. We are small creatures, at the mercy of a world and events larger than we are. Still, in all this, there is goodness and…

I don't think that's what it's saying. DiCaprio is acknowledging that there's nothing special about being the one to kill him. It's an implicit recognition of the futility of revenge. Nothing he does will bring his boy back. He's still angry, and he still hates Hardy, but he is willing not to be the one to do it. …

Wait, I'm confused, the AA Dowd grading scale goes up to B+ now?

So when you say "supposed" you mean "likely will in fact, in spite of the manifest intention by the creators of the art that the viewer/reader have the opposite reaction." Okay.

WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO ANOTHER CAN DO.