The closest movie to this that comes to mind isn't a Linklater movie, but the animated film Waltz with Bashir, covering the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Also very much worth checking out.

One of my main issues with Love's games is that they are designed to be Western deconstructions of the dating sim/visual novel games……except in the west dating sim/visual novels don't really exist at all, games being mentioned here in the comments are almost all RPGs. The Visual novels in English are mostly imports…

Heh, scrolling down through the games I was looking for the expected Muv Luv snub and the expected Yamete Onii-chan plug for said Muv Luv.

I am assuming you have also read up on the "hundredth monkey effect" that Dr Lyle Watson found?

The IBM 5100 was pretty much the only way to 'prove' that he was legit. That retro PC has the unintentionally included function to emulate and debug mainframes. In fact,
for more than 25 years after it was sold in 1975, nobody except for a
few IBM engineers knew about it. A while
after Titor's postings, an actual IBM…

Not one mention of the Visual Novel and Anime Steins;gate? For shame, AV Club. One of the all time best time travel stories ever written.

People who say that GRRM is "the best" fantasy writer of the 90's and 2000's have obviously only read other mainstream authors like RA Salvatore, Robert Jordan, and Anne McCaffrey. GRRM is good and a head and shoulders above them, and I liked his first three books, but then I proceeded to read Patrick Rothfuss, Brent…

On one hand, product placement can be very annoying if it is ham handed and obvious. On the other hand, we live in a world of brands that gets into our own language, particularly with food. If I am thirsty, I am not going to ask a friend to get me a "lemon-lime soda", I am going to ask for a Sprite or 7up. If I go to…

Another fun old 90's website is the NSA kids website, good thing they have an alternate version for us internet users who don't have flash:
https://www.nsa.gov/kids/

Can we just have a mashup thread in the comments?
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If only this movie came out AFTER the LOTR movies. You can see a lot of potential if they spent more time developing the band of vikings in a 120-130 minute epic instead of a 100 minute action flick.There was also the subplot about the villianous prince and his henchmen, which brought about the Hólmgang scene…..but…

Still to this day the game with the ugliest choices possible for me to make has to be Planescape Torment. None of them are forced, however, you can play through the whole game and not kill a single person personally.

Let's not forget the scene where the girls are arguing over who gets to play Snow White in the play, and Sailor Jupiter says she has the "most talent". I by talent, she means "boobs".
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I think part of the 'crowd' statistic might have to do with the fact that Men Are the Expendable Gender. In any kind of disaster/action flick, when you need people getting killed, its usually men; compare the male/female deaths in Titanic. The main reason there are no female giants in Jack the Giant Slayer or the fact…

I don't know how many AV Club readers are into manga, but for anyone who does, they can share the pain in waiting for new chapters of the dark fantasy manga Berserk. it started in 1990, and since 2006 it has been constantly going on hiatus as Kentaro Miura keeps going on breaks. The fact that this guy is almost 50,…

As for positive bait and switch, when I first started watching Evangelion on cartoon network's adult swim, I was pretty sure I was getting into a well excecuted otherwise fairly normal Giant Robot show. whoooo boy, after about 2/3 through it became pretty clear that is was shaping out to be one of the most intense…

I have to say, at least C.S. Lewis went on record saying that he did not intend to create a religious message in his books, he was just so much into writing about Christianity in his non-fiction that the God stuff worked its way into his fantasy as well. As for Pullman, he has gone on record saying that it was his…

Most of the "empire" aesthetic of the Centauri is obviously drawing inspiration from the Roman Empire, but in this episode, it very much seems like the Centauri Emperor was inspired by the Japanese imperial royal family coming out of WWII. Anyone else get that vibe?

There is really no point in making a Wanted anime when we have Black Lagoon already…