I have not said that at all. If anything, I'm talking about visual concept. Visual concept isn't only "let's use B&W film". It's "Let's use B&W because we're going for…". There is nothing saying that film needs story or narrative. I have never said that IN MY LIFE. I have said that if there's no concept or narrative…

I don't like when artistic choices are made only to make things prettier. If it doesn't add to concept or narrative, then it's a crutch. You make it sound like all artistic choices are crutches, but they aren't.

I have seen both films, and yeah, I'd go with Seconds or Chimes At Midnight as well. Easily.

Don't you feel black and white has become a bit of mechanism to disguise ordinary cinematography though? Because everything looks better in black and white.

Just because you can't imagine those films with anyone else doesn't mean they wouldn't have worked with anyone else. It feels like that because you're attached, but as inspired as the choices were, doesn't mean the films wouldn't work in any other way. The Godfather, in purely cinematic terms, is still a great film.…

I agree that from what I have seen of his Election stand far and away the best for me too. It feels like this is the ultimate Payne film, in the sense that if you like his work, you really love it, and if you don't like it, you really don't like it (at least judging from the reaction I have seen around).

THIS film getting this grade is kinda unexpected, yeah.

Oh, AV Club she is in on the joke. And yes, she does understand he is a repugnant asshole even though she is comparing herself favorably to him. And no, I don't think you get how aware of how she comes off as how much it IS supposed to be ridiculous. Ke$ha is someone I would call deliberately and cleverly stupid. Why…

Hey now, I don't like Lena Dunham either, and that's not what I implied.

They probably had lots of sex, you just don't know about it.

Aiden was the worst character in the show and he resembles no man I know. First, he changes personality completely between seasons in a very radical manner. Plus, he speaks this very cheesy dialogue that sounds way too unrealistic. And finally, I just never understood why he stuck with her. It didn't make sense. he…

So we get downvoted for making fun of Lena Dunham haters now?

I think Lena Dunham of The Internet is too fat for me to like her show!

Oh, Mike D, I disagree. To me this was powerful and emotional farewell that works perfectly as final statement for Miyazaki and the best film of the year.

I alos don't know how I'm arrogant for not giving into details (fuck details because i care more about motivations and themes than context) when I'm replying to a guy questioning how I dislike the subsequent seasons. I have never said you are watching it wrong, but I guess it's better to be a defensive bitch again…

Urgh, defensive again assuming arrogance in others. It's the critics who are not being honest about how they feel if they do revisionism, it's you that are arrogant if I stubbornly reject your idea of cycles on Mad Men and call you arrogant for pointing to general structure instead of details…

I alos don't know how you think the show is about Don learning or evolving. The whole idea is Don is stuck inside his own personal hell which he tries to run away from but can't. They show made this much more overt in the past three years by rubbing it in our faces time and time again with more unnecessary flashbacks…

I just said about Don's arc in the past three seasons, but you just keep downright dismissing this.

"Don isn't just doing the same things over and over again, and I would argue the characters feel more real making some of the same mistakes than if they did something once and never fell prey to it again." - I dont think it's the show's intention, but it's how it ends up on execution.

Obvious symbolism is still obvious. Getting hit on the head with symbolism is still getting hit on the head. And a lot of the tension underlining such interactions like Peggy and Joan, or Peggy and Don, became much more stated than they were in early years.