They shriveled up and dropped off out of sheer embarrassment.

I thought SLP was awful and she was badly miscast; not old enough and not convincing as someone recovering from a breakdown. Everything else I've seen her in - X-Men, Hunger Games - has been pretty mediocre stuff, so hard to judge. I do think she seems like a kick-ass character IRL though, and she has plenty of time…

Fair enough. I wasn't so much letting her go, as saying that it wasn't the worst thing about her performance; however, I am a Brit, so I guess not as attuned to a (Jersey?) accent as you guys. :)

OK. I'm calling it. This film does not look good - seems like a bunch of A-list actors playing dress-up in a low production-value TV rip-off of Casino/Goodfellas. Jennifer Lawrence has been badly miscast and is just not convincing in this role - nothing to do with the accent, it's the acting - she's just running her…

Yep, you may be right!

Really? Looks embarrassingly bad to me.

I was thinking she's more like Helen Mirren, personality-wise.

Try them with chopped bacon and melted cheese, if you really want to get high.

Much as I love Rob Lowe, I won't be watching his turn as JFK because I cannot be a part of anything that benefits shouty liar Bill O'Reilly (he wrote the book it's based on.) Ugh.

PUNCH

"You know, we’re not plus-sized girls, we’re normal sized girls."

Exactly what I'm talking about. The hysteria that erupts whenever this kind of discipline is mentioned is loony. We're not talking about regularly giving a child a beating.

Agree.

Oh god, I'm really sorry you went through that! I remember getting a slap across the back of the legs a few times and being spanked once, when I did something extremely dangerous, having been told not to do it many, many times. But, like you, it's the verbal stuff that goes deep - when you're told you are 'something'…

Yep, this kind of scenario is exactly what I'm talking about.

I deleted your reply because you sound like an idiot, and I mostly try to avoid engaging with idiots.

Your parents sound awesome; but there is also a portion of luck involved in how your kids come out, ie. their innate character and mental/biological makeup. Your parents' approach would not work with all children. Neither would a slap, of course. It's a matter of tailoring the approach to the child. Consistency and…

I've always thought a swift (and not too hard, obvs) slap across the leg/arm/butt of a misbehaving child is far less damaging than a harsh word. So sue me.

Yep!

Really? Not being funny, but I can't see a difference! Maybe it's more obvious if you've seen the film. That film was 2005 though, which means she would have been 17 when they were filming it; and your body is still developing and hasn't 'settled' into the adult shape, even in your late-teens.