Exactly. Just because the "wrong" movie won some years in retrospect doesn't mean that those movies are bad or were undeserving on their own merits.

I disagree on every count, but again, I'm simply questioning your definition of "too long" and "interminable." It's 100 minutes. If you're just saying that any length is too long for a movie you don't enjoy, very well, but if you're saying 100 minutes is objectively too long for a movie, well, then I would suggest…

The Artist was 100 minutes long. I get that when you don't like a movie it can feel longer than it is, but if you think 100 minutes is interminable I think you must not have seen a lot of long movies. And some of the best movies ever made are quite long indeed.

This year it was popular, on the AV Club among other places, to belittle people who are vocal about their lack of interest in the Super Bowl and those who trumpet that they only watch it for the commercials. The message was: if you don't like it for whatever elitist reason, fine, but most of us do, and we're not…

Yours is one of my favorite AV Club comments I can remember. Burned the musical-haters and burned Gigi in one fell burn. :)

I don't think it's that they were homophobic, I think it's that Brokeback felt like a small indie movie, and the Academy doesn't usually reward movies that feel like small indie movies. I think the people who like to hate on the Academy might feel differently if they would accept that the Oscars are not about…

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Ah, nuance! You slippery devil you.

Crash is ungodly bad, but Gigi needs some "love" as a potential worst. That's my pick, and I've seen most of them. I also hated The Departed. Out of Africa and Forrest Gump are both good movies.

I agree that it might make sense using real-life logic. I just didn't think it makes sense using TV-logic. And moreover, I didn't think it was very consistent with Mary's pragmatic, loyal-to-the-family, not-always-above-board character.

MYST library!!!! That is all.

Nonsense behavior from Tom and Mary, the two most important characters on the show. "Why would Tom have a problem showing what's-her-face the view from the landing? The fact that he and Sybil slept up there is a weak explan… oh it's because they have to make a 'thing' out of it later." "Mary is going to get all…

Whereas my impression is quite the opposite. To pick a somewhat arbitrary example, the current generation of Disney channel shows (early 2000s to present) is incapable of any kind of humor that is not sarcastic, and that kind of thing has been echoed by young millennials. Gen Xers, by and large, are in my view…

Um… are you sure I was trying to be profoundly insightful? I was just sharing my opinion that "earnest" does not describe the "up and coming generation."

What "studies"? I guess I take your word, but it seems so contrary to what I read and see and hear every day. I feel like I'm the only mostly straight-shooter in a world shaped by irony.

"…supposedly super-sincere up-and-coming generation with his earnest gags and desire not to make waves"?

"Sword of Kahless" would have been so much better, IMO, if it had contained more callbacks to TNG's "Rightful Heir."

To go beyond cultural conditioning, I think the brain itself determines a lot about whether you will or won't be religious. And a lot about everything else, too. But until we prove that and it becomes a big enough thing that it changes the way we speak, it's going to be hard not to continue to act as if there is…

I think the whole arc of the Klingon empire from TNG through DS9 is one of the best stories told in the Trek franchise. I've always thought it would be neat to do a watch-through of both series, only watching Klingon-centric episodes.

I love all the Weyouns. Maybe it's me, but I think each one is just slightly different, usually slightly sadder, than the one before. Two of my favorite lines in the series concern them, and both have yet to be uttered.