First off… noting some element of a film in a criticism is obviously what you should do. I also believe at the time, that performance was pointed out as ridiculous. In fact, I think I read somewhere that Mickey Rooney hated it himself. The thing about THIS review was that it wasn't merely NOTING that this element -…

I was
clearly responding to the comment "Hey, if political correctness can
protect young girls (and boys) from sexual exploitation, then I'm all for it!" not the review itself. My statement on the review, was that it wasn't based on anything other than the fact that he thought the relationship between the girl and the…

I was clearly responding to the comment "Hey, if political correctness can protect young girls (and boys) from sexual exploitation, then I'm all for it!" not the review itself. My statement on the review, was that it wasn't based on anything other than the fact that he thought the relationship between
the girl and the…

I was clearly responding to the comment "Hey, if political correctness can protect young girls (and boys) from sexual exploitation, then I'm all for it!" not the review itself. My statement on the review, was that it wasn't based on anything other than the fact that he thought the relationship between the girl and the…

didn't mean to sound hostile, but the implication that this film could inspire sexual exploitation was ridiculous.

didn't mean to sound hostile, but the implication that this film could inspire sexual exploitation was ridiculous.

Hardly, it's always the self-righteous blowhards that have the skeletons in their closets.

Riiiggghht, because watching this movie has been the inspiration for pederasts around the world for decades. The movie employs a trope used time and again in literature and movies. Off the top of my head, there's a Perfect Day For Bananafish, The Professional, Gloria, Paper Moon…there are a ton I'm forgetting. All of…

Oh the politically correct age we live in.

Xanth books were adolescent trifles, but this review takes PC to the extreme. Get over it.

Guess it wasn't 'rape'. As someone who a) got a ton of shit from many of you on here for saying what Louie was trying to do in that episode was to 'draw her out of her shell' knowing that she had feelings for him, well, that was the whole theme of these two episodes, so I feel vindicated, that's what that 'rape'…

Not an episode with any particularly unique insight. Look at young Louie, he's awkward, look at young Louie he falls into smoking the pot, look at young Louie immediately falling into hanging with drug dealers and stealing to get the pot, Look at young Louie coming clean. None of it rang particularly true or real. No…

I absolutely agree of course that when someone says no at any stage, even seconds before, the person needs to stop. I'm just not sure yet, how this arc is going to turn out. Is Louie actually making a statement on rape? Is he making light of it? What's with the fist pump? After all, this is a guy who'll make fun of…

Not defending this awful episode anymore. The character if Pamela is awful an Louie acts like a clueless moron and nit someone who's had two children and been in many relationships. It's just dumb at this point. That's the bad part. The rape thing is ridiculous. At the end she implies that she does want him saying…

That's fucked up. So every time a woman has kissed me and I didn't want to, I've been raped? Twisted.

Give me a break. Calling that scene rape is insulting to women who've actually been brutalized. And yes I'm a guy, and believe it or not, men sometime also get pretty heavily sexually aggressed upon by women as well. What Louie did was just an awkward move. To call it an attack is BS. Don't know why I'm even defending…

Sums what up exactly? He made a move, she didn't want it, he stops…where's the rape? Where's the assault? The very last part of that whole scene, was her admitting she wanted to be in a relationship but without the kissing part. I mean, what's that all about? When he says, that's what people do, she begrudgingly gave…

I didn't say it was consensual at all. I said that being that they've had this long relationship, where she's well aware of his feelings for her, the fact that she came to him and offered a new boy/girl level would be an indication to anyone that she was up for something physical. As I said, they're a couple of middle…

Dead on Heisenberg.

I think throwing around the word rape to describe that final scene - of another decidedly uneven effort - is nauseatingly PC. Ludicrously PC. Bottom line, the scene just wasn't well executed at all. In fact their whole relationship is messy in the way it's being told. Does she want him or not? If she does, as she had…