Thanks, I might take you up on that.

@TheTuckPendletonMachine:disqus I have all the numbers, I just can never bring myself to call them.

@avclub-f6f154417c4665861583f9b9c4afafa2:disqus  You're too nice. I wish I didn't completely suck at looking for work. It's doubly difficult considering I don't really know much about the city.

At least you can tell yourself retroactively that you were doing education just for learning and not for the rat race.

Christ, you're making me cry.

If you don't mind me asking, what kinds of jobs were they and what was the most significant experience or precursor to your current work?

No, we moved before either of us had jobs in the new city. I didn't bother looking before the move (from Vancouver) since it would only have been for less than 2 months between finishing school and moving to my current city. My SO had an on-call job for ~6 months there but quit it so we could move back to be kind of a…

Since getting an account years ago I haven't commented too much. I've seen as the website has increased its user level substantially in the last few years and I usually assume my comments will get buried if I don't post quickly enough (EDIT: between writing and posting this the article went from 91 comments to over…

Why the hate for I.V's film criticism? Too much time spent turning AV Club reasonable discussions into r/movies, or what?

Precious was one of the worst films in living memory, an exploitation piece that only depicts the worst of humanity, presented in a way designed to flatter liberal sensibilities instead of confront anything remotely complex, to tell you what you already know, and to do so in an almost completely aesthetically…

I'm going to add to the love for The King of Comedy, definitely a major (regardless of how much it grossed, because why is that part of the conversation?) and master work.

@avclub-c2023af23a02a04d9f58966bafd8969a:disqus No, I agree with that. It's doing both at the same time. It allows Jon and Ygritte to have their moment, before the image connects with Petyr's words with that final zoom out and they are dwarfed (no pun intended) by both the illusion on display AND the suggestion of…

And now I feel like saying something positive about the actual episode!

Agreed with @avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus and I just want to add that declaring a relationship to be in the friendzone (regardless of gender but we all know which gender it is most used for) is attacking someone's right to say no, just like labeling someone as a slut or participating in slut-shaming…

Can we just not with the "friendzone"? Is it possible to put a permanent moratorium on that awful word?

This article photo reminds me of that batshit Felix the Cat movie.

It's as bad as whatever you're currently picturing in your mind.

As long as Nolan doesn't make him cry again. I felt so bad for Caine having to act through those terrible scenes in Dark Knight Rises.

Well, sure then. On the one hand you have bad cinema with Nolan's muddled DKR and on the other hand you have Whedon's slight take on individualism and the changing ideas of power, nationalism (even jingoism) and control seen most clearly through Captain America. I guess where I'm most opposed to your initial example…

Isn't it somewhat both, implied, despite what we might wish to think? Merit is involved in what cinema is. Avengers seems to be doing at least a bit of something for the art, for cinema (admittedly mostly relegated to its middle section) but Dark Knight Rises is more haphazard, disjointed, messy, and careless…