The Rules of the Game (La Regle Du Jeu), dir. Renoir: Really good film. Thoroughly enjoyed the inventive camerawork and great cast. Really good chemistry, and a great mix of humour and pathos. Was particularly impressed by the performance of Marcel Dalio. Criterion's release contains some great special features.

I wasn't trolling, it was more just a bit of egotistical posturing like I said (we're all prone to such silliness every now and again), which only goes so far. I still find all of what xeranar said above patently ridiculous, naive and totally wrong, but I'm not opposed to further study and research of differing views,…

Fair enough. I'll genuinely add them to the growing wish list. I'm coming from a position of fundamental disagreement with those positions so it'll be interesting to check them out and continue to learn more about opposing ideas and whatnot (which all people should continually do throughout life) although I already do…

Hit me where it mattered?…Where…did it matter? Buddy, I've been smiling this whole time. I've come up against far more intelligent people then you on this very site, let alone the real world. This is just some egotistical posturing from the two of us.
Objective facts? What objective facts are we discussing? Because…

So I guess I'm back, why not, I can't sleep anyway…so…if I find a PhD in political science ( I know a fair few in fact) who have diametrically opposed opinions on politics…how does this work? Does the world implode? Or is it possible holding a PhD in political doesn't equate Godlike expertise on politics and people…

Oh my god! Everybody, everybody, the big man has a PhD! OH WOW! OH GOLLY! Because everyone with a PhD is automatically an expert and there's no PhD's with terrible opinions, and there's no PhD's who wholly succumb to bias and pre-disposed beliefs and yada yada you get the point. Furthermore, the fact that you have a…

Lol. A reactionary. Righto, if it makes you feel better to think I'm some Conservative that's fine, but sorry buddy, just because I don't have my head up my arse, buy into idiotic identity politics and think 'white guy' is a legitimate criticism of something doesn't make one a reactionary. Beyond all this bullshit…

"It really isn't my fault you're an ally of the capitalists who seek to destroy the rest of us"
"Do you really think liberals would continue to release transformers and the same repetitive stories?"

Oh wow, if only this was in the slightest bit relevant at all. Which it isn't. Considering the Bechdel Test is a poor judge of whether a film has good female characters, and most importantly, has absolutely no bearing on the quality of the film.

Well, no, it isn't legitimate. There are many, many different forms of comedy, completely subjective to personal experience, that don't touch on politics and/or power struggles/attacking the powerful in the slightest…so any claim that it's primarily about that is fairly ludicrous.

Great film. And an especially great ending.

That sort of thing bothers me, it's just so self-serving. It's not even that I'm offended on some political level or something, it mostly bothers me just because it shows a complete and lack of understanding of the history of art and comedy's place in it. Comedy is something that has been performed and done well in…

"That’s why comedy is essentially a liberal art form—comedy from the point of view of the powerful makes us recoil, instinctively."

Oh yes, the classic "Some classic literature was dismissed critically and then opinion changed, therefore it'll also happen for *insert book for my argument*".

It'll die out eventually, at least the books will(in the sense of being talked about often). Classic literature it ain't.

So basically another 'This episode didn't tickle my ideological fancy' review. What a surprise.

I've enjoyed yours and @Scrawler2:disqus's B:TAS reviews recently, as I've started to re-watch it myself the last few weeks.

"if not the most influential works…"

What an obnoxious, asinine article.

Finished "Moby Dick" a few days back and it has immediately skyrocketed into my top 2-3 greatest novels of all time. What a stunning, magnificent book this is - part adventure story; part mediation on history, philosophy and religion; part whaling manual; part psychological novel; part character study; full…