Not saying she's her responsibility. But that "annoying" girl clearly needed someone to take her under their wing, and Eilis promised to show her around. And that first "stab" at independence pales in comparison to the second one I mentioned which you did not comment on.

She would've had mine if they never got married before she left back to Ireland, but the writers decided to "juice it up a bit".

Not AT ALL my point. There are valid criticisms about her character and why I would want to invest myself in this particular character's story that have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she's female. The fault lies with the writers, who both happen to be men.

I loved Whiplash, but Brooklyn, not so much. I feel nearly identical to the writer of this article on this one. Either have them not be married when she goes home, or actually commit to following through on the complications of the choices she makes. The movie chickens out and even allows some to think she only went…

EXACTLY. And all of this wouldn't have happened if the writers decided that she wouldn't marry Tony before she went home. Then she'd never be "caught" by some people at City Hall, and the decision between the two guys/her old life or her new life would make MUCH more sense.

Right, her first stab at independence is to bail on a girl that clearly has no friends to go home with a hot guy. Her next stab is to decide whether to cheat on her husband and potentially leave him but ultimately not do that because "Ireland is gossipy". She's quite stabby.

But she married the guy already! Before this other "choice" (NOT A CHOICE) ever came up, she already made her actual choice! That's the problem with this movie. They shouldn't have married before she left back to Ireland.

But again, this is NOT a story about a choice between two suitors. She made her choice already when she MARRIED THE OTHER GUY. The second half of the movie is not about anything other than deciding whether or not to cheat on and leave her husband. Of course, if she didn't marry the guy, everything you said would be…

The movie doesn't want to make her perfect, sure. But if her POV is truly that gossiping is a worse sin than cheating then I regret spending time getting invested in that character's story. That's not someone I want to follow for 2 hours.

Yeah she must've really loved the guy to be THIS close to bailing on him for the nice Irish boy with the big house. That's the problem I have with the movie: the decision to have them marry before she goes home. It's a contrivance for the purpose of A) creating additional drama during her return home and B) having…

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2. The Big Lebowski
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4. Barton Fink
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10. The Man Who Wasn't There
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My take: "Ads" stand in for those who would exploit (and therefore stand to benefit from) false tolerance, not-so-genuine PC culture (of the kind Randy and his ilk practiced for much of the season) and the white washing of society. Nathan said "What is PC but a verbal form of gentrification?" But the truth in that…

No, it's definitely not.

Dowd, you're speaking the truth! Hobbit was the one that really took the splitting up too far. I think that's the one that soured people on the tactic. And Bravo for pointing out the unnecessary foreign remake thing. No matter how good Let Me In is it still has no reason to exist.

The way Randy says "hot, hot, hootttt" is exactly the way he says it when he takes a shit. See "More Crap" or "Reverse Cowgirl" for examples.

"They stole the plot from BattleTanx."

I so badly want a super cut of Every Line Said By Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending. Please, thanks Internet!

Everyone knows that the REAL "House" is the 1977 Nobuhiko Obayashi film about a house that eats teenage girls.

True story: Cameron Diaz's put-on accent was soooo bad and over-the-top during filming that they literally couldn't use any on-set audio for her dialog. Her entire performance was done through ADR (automated dialog replacement). Supposedly she was trying to sound exactly like Rihanna on set. I find this story…

The Duelists, Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men and the Denzel Washington half of American Gangster. So 7 1/2 is the answer (out of 22 movies)