The seedy underbelly of cheerful 50's suburban conformity has for decades fascinated filmmakers and approximately nobody else.

You can be a horrible person and still be sexually harassed. Implying it’s OK because he believes stuff you don’t is akin to saying it’s OK because she wore something you don’t approve of.

She’s an anti-vaxxer and encourages bullshit homeopathic medicine. She can go fuck herself forever.

Really? I can’t fucking stand her. Between her anti-vax dalliances, her hardline chickenhawkish “Israel has a right to defend itself!” bullshit and now this, I’m hoping BBT gets canceled tomorrow, and she sinks back into cultural irrelevance.

‘There’s no better standup working today than Patton Oswalt’.... Not sure I agree with that sweeping generalization.

I feel like in Von Trier’s case, your last question could be taken literally.

I’ll await the apology for this joke six years later.

“He also adds that he knows rape can impact anyone’s life, and he’s “seen firsthand its painful torment” among his friends and family.”

You just gave Donald Trump an idea for another Rosie O’Donnell joke.

Everyone’s shit is emotional right now.

Oh my god fuck off. You are seriously complaining about the article “spoiling” the trailer.

Except that calling Taiwan a semi-autonomous city-state in front of a Taiwanese will get you an ass kicking.

Recommending Avatar as a first anime experience is like telling someone to start with The Artist if they want to get into silent films. It’s not wrong, but it’s also kind of missing the point.

Check out the series Mononoke. It’s a horror anthology, incredibly well done and with quite a unique art style.

Although I also gave Cowboy Bebop a college try and never really took to it, I will say that Sean’s model is a bit flawed if he can just bail on something. I mean, let’s take the term literally and pretend this is a college course and you’ve been assigned something. You can’t just stop reading Pride and Prejudice…

One of my favorite anime (and I am not generally a fan of the genre) is Mushishi. It’s almost an anti-anime. Where anime is loud, frenetic, bright, often disorienting, Mushishi is quiet, and meditative - almost zen like.

Welp, this dragged me into commenting on Kinja - I can’t promise anything exactly like Akira, but I can recommend 10 choices that aren’t necessarily a pile of stereotypes (other than maybe one or two).

But, IMO, the show doesn’t do a very good job at showing life as a nihilist as “dreary and unfun.” Rick plays it like a fucking BLAST, and receives little pushback from other characters about how sad it really is.

“Rick sucks. Beth sucks. Everything sucks—at least if you’re smart.”