I'm not responsible for the ads, I just work there…but if I were responsible for the ads, I totally would've planned that, because it's awesome.

Yes, because failure has nothing to teach you, only unmitigated success is worthy of analysis! All hail, um, the Godfather Part II? The Conversation?

That's the water I was leading all y'all horses to. I'm still too much of a teacher, in that regard — I want to lead you the bulb, but let you yank the chain and turn it on yourself.

Clearly, you are so much more awesome, sophisticated and refined than me am.

I'll note for the record that I'm a Culture addict, and in no way, shape or form meant to compare Elysium to any Banks novel. I was making a point about how "realism" is construed in contemporary cinema, and thought this was a fine film with which to do so. I mean:

Of course, it also might be that sometimes not-great films do an excellent job at pithily illustrating points that are otherwise difficult to illustrate. I've also written about Superman Returns, which is — actually, I think it's an underrated film, but whatever you think of it, if you want to discuss parallel editing…

If you had any clue who I was, you'd know how far below the threshold of irritation "guy who complains about over analyzing on the Internet" falls. I'm just saying.

Yes, especially because you didn't actually fix it. But at least your complaint is less generic!

Oh dear lord, nothing is worst than over analyzing and already overblown allegory.

I don't know what you're talking about. It was the greatest movie I've ever seen…

That, I believe, would've been the sequel.

Quite a bit bothered me about the film as well, but it did provide a good opportunity to address the question of "realism" in film. Given that that's such a thorny issue, I thought I'd used it to my advantage here. I'm not judging the film in its entirety — we'd have to talk about the pacing, then — just this…

For the record, that run-on sentence about Law & Order SVU was supposed to link to this:

I may have been a wee bit sarcastic with that "merely" there.

I'm totally kidding you with my crap!

FYI, if anyone's interested in my take on the latest episode of the Walking Dead, it can be found here:

That was @avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus above there.

I'm not trying to knock novels — I'm an English Ph.D., after all — but I will say that I think one problem here is that you think viewing experiences are necessarily passive. They can be, of course, but they don't have to be. What I did when I taught, and what I'm trying to do here, is enable viewers to have…

@avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus I think this is your central argument:

@avclub-a10204363835bb19f4c8a3a8f404b0b9:disqus Is this the appropriate forum for that particular diatribe? Because if it is … AWESOME.