He lives in an abandoned, crumbling house next to a paper mill, not a trendy loft space.

The story of the movie is simply about a search for fulfillment on a personal level. Norton couldn’t find it when he hitched his wagon to all the material promises of his consumerist society, so he creates Fight Club, trying to find meaning in something directly opposite - but in fact he just goes from an extreme to a…

‘’Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.’’

Film Critic Hulk makes a very astute point about Fight Club, which is that even though it can be intellectually read as a condemnation of Tyler Durden’s ideology, it doesn’t viscerally feel like one. Basically his point is that Fincher makes fight club, Project Mayhem and Tyler himself seem so awesome and fun and cool…

Fight Club is an extremely subtle movie. Sure on Level 1 you have the uncritical glorification of male violence, and on Level 2 you have the criticism of said violence and the resultant slide into becoming a totalitarian drone of a completely different sort, but there is a third level to this story.

Young angry white dudes saw what they wanted to see from that movie. I remember chatting with a co-worker about it (I hadn’t seen it - he had), and heexplained to me how great it was because it showed that chicks are destroyingguys by trying to make them more sensitive and stuff. 

Hard to believe that people got Fight Club so wrong. I didn’t see it in the theaters because, based on the marketing and the critical reviews I saw at the time, it seemed to be just a glorification of violence done purely for shock value. When I saw it on video later I remember thinking that it wasn’t at all what I…

Yeah, I’d argue Office Space and American Beauty/Pie are more influential long term than some of the entries here.

That Office Space was left out is mind-boggling. Is there a bigger cultural touchstone for the time?

10 Things doesn’t entirely work but I think it’s one of the most innovative Shakespeare adaptations on film–I like that it mines Shakespeare’s material for the most interesting bits rather than simply adapting Shrew.

Considering that just about every diet since the term started achieving broad currency in the Seventies has been functionally about having an eating disorder, why should keto be any different?

I would guess they’re like a conspiracy theory: an attempt to impose order and understanding on an unpredictable world. 

What did carbs do to people that made them hate deliciousness so much? I also think these long term “diets” are nothing more than a cover for disordered eating.

Eleanor on The Good Place is pretty definitely bisexual though we have never specifically seen reference to her being with a woman. But there is her infatuation with Tahani (sadly never acted on—maybe in the final season now that she and Chidi are on a break), and when she thinks “real Eleanor” (Vicki) is making a…

“Of course, one of the most problematic in retrospect characters is Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where it seems Joss Whedon just plain couldn’t wrap his head around the idea of someone being attracted to more than one gender, and once she fell for Tara, there was not a single reference to her ever being into…

Cookie Crisp was forbidden fruit in my house growing up. Once I finally ate it as a teen (maybe?), I was so disappointed. Really, this is what I’ve been pining for?

“This behavior is applauded by the very people condemning Golden Corral, when the person asked to leave a public place for wearing a MAGA hat. Seems to be a rather hypocritical bunch of folks.”

Didn’t Michael Schur always say this was the plan? I could have sworn I read that somewhere.

What was disrespectful about a woman wearing shorts and a T-shirt to go to a casual restaurant? I’ve worn shorts and a T-shirt in public tons of times.

I can’t even begin to imagine the level of entitlement required to demand (!) a stranger leave a public place because I, personally, find their appearance unappealing. How do you live in the world with that level of narcissism?