This is like Patton Oswalt’s bit about modern childbirth, something to the effect of: “You know what the pioneers dreamed about??? HOSPITALS!!!!!”

WTF is the point of living in modern times if a person doesn’t avail herself of some of its luxuries, like a freaking pre-natal appointment to a midwife or something? Yet she will chatter on FB about the “primal instinct” that takes over. Guess what? Birthing can be pretty deadly, just look at history. But no, the…

I genuinely believe he didn’t know who Lil John was. Psychopaths like Trump don’t recognize anyone in this world aside From themselves and Ivanka 

Thanks for commenting. I totally agree with you that it is a dangerous accusation to pin the blame on another person for a person killing himself—I loathe 13 Reasons Why for that reason among others—and realize my words make it sound like I think his suicide was fully triggered by the manager’s words. But that doesn’t…

Also, don’t go to any French movies. There’s a suicide in 90% of them. When a man committed suicide and landed on Amalie’s mother thus killing her (in fucking “Amalie”!) I swore off French film (I’m only half joking).

I seem to recall in the Streisand/Kristofferson version, it was left almost as a question whether or not his accident was intentional or a true accident. They didn’t make it as explicit as the previous versions, but definitely let it open to interpretation.

Right? Adding the word “suicide” to our ratings should not be a big deal. Nobody complains about having spoiled the “sexual content,” “violence,” or “mature language.”

Hey folks! I just wanted to point out that the fine people at Does the Dog Die? have a comprehensive list of flags regarding various triggers and semi-spoilers for all sorts of red flags that people might care about. If you have specific things that might make a movie a no-go, I’d recommend checking them out.

This happened to me with Silver Linings Playbook. The trailers made it look like a charming romantic dramedy perfect for a 3rd-ish date with my new beau. Instead, my date (now husband) who grew up outside Philly with a somewhat abusive dad, a doormat mom, and a diagnosis of bipolar I, which he was managing through…

I don’t know that I entirely agree with this assessment of what happened. It was made very clear in the film that that was not Jackson’s first try at suicide, and that he had been battling suicidal depression since his early teens. The manager was harsh (but everything he said was true), but I think it’s just as toxic…

I lost a family member to suicide and came out of this movie feeling for people like yourself. I did OK with it, but know others who wouldn’t. And you don’t think to Google every movie for “does anyone commit suicide?”

I had a weird personal experience with this. While out to dinner with a pair of longtime friends one mentioned that we never get to see non-kids movies and she’d been wanting to see A Star is Born. I have seen every version of it made and neither hate nor love it so when our third enthusiastically agreed, off we went.…

“I get not wanting ‘spoilers’”. In this case, I really don’t get it. I don’t think having the suicide be a surprise would increase ANYONE’S enjoyment of the overall movie. 

I don’t really see how this spoils anything other than that the story contains a suicide right? It basically jut amounts to ‘theres a suicide in here’ not ‘Bradly Coopers character is going to kill himself at the end of this’. I don’t see how heads up for something without knowledge of how that impacts the story is a…

Honestly, this seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. I get not wanting “spoilers”, but that desire is not really reasonable when compared to the fact that a piece of media may cause real psychological damage to an unsuspecting patron who has issues around self-harm or suicide.

Disagree. She’s a fascinating historical figure. We venerate or at the very least tell stories of fascinating, eccentric, outrageous male figures ALL THE TIME. I enjoy learning about a women who don’t fit in the mold. We don’t have to like her, we just have to be aware of women like her, bc they are otherwise swept…

If you read the actual obituary, it states that this woman’s entire investment portfolio was largely the result of money she inherited from her father. Her main business seemed to be shaking down these CEOs to buy 2 copies of her $600 newsletter that she published. From the obituary, it seems like she was more of a…

I have not heard of this woman. The article doesn’t seem to say if she was actually doing good. Or was she just famous for being the person at a meeting that everyone hates.

I have never heard of this woman but she seems interesting and the things she railed against at these corporate meetings are still the same things wrong today (plus more wrongness, always new, more wrongness.) 

Capital letters and multiple exclamation points. Even back then those were signs of general stability. :)