I wish we had more directors of real stature who had stronger public personas and who engaged with the public in a circus ringmaster kind of way like Hitchcock did, and who can become a spokesperson for a whole genre. Scorcese seems to be one of the only ones I can think of who comes close. Tarantino sometimes…

Ouch.

Ouch.

I don't know who you teach, but let's say it's college freshmen. Have you realized that most of them would have only been 5 or 6 years old when those episodes aired? Is that not kind of horrifying?

I don't know who you teach, but let's say it's college freshmen. Have you realized that most of them would have only been 5 or 6 years old when those episodes aired? Is that not kind of horrifying?

@avclub-52e423907968ddd10bbd2ec76092a7fc:disqus Well, "Moon" still pretty much punts the whole lower gravity question for in-the-station scenes.

@avclub-52e423907968ddd10bbd2ec76092a7fc:disqus Well, "Moon" still pretty much punts the whole lower gravity question for in-the-station scenes.

I'm curious exactly which planks in the Democratic platform you would identify as "extremist"? I think this argument has some legs when it comes to generalizing about the parties based on what kind of comments get posted on national newspaper stories. The extremists tend to dominate the discussion in propaganda…

I'm curious exactly which planks in the Democratic platform you would identify as "extremist"? I think this argument has some legs when it comes to generalizing about the parties based on what kind of comments get posted on national newspaper stories. The extremists tend to dominate the discussion in propaganda…

Don't click it, or the Black Helicopters will come and get you!

Don't click it, or the Black Helicopters will come and get you!

So, I'm getting an Atlas Shrugged Pt. 2 ad at the bottom of this page. That ad algorithm really knows its stuff — or not, since most of the eyeballs on this page are clearly coming to mock and criticize. I wonder if ads for Planned Parenthood (if they have internet ads) would show up on anti-abortion forums, because…

So, I'm getting an Atlas Shrugged Pt. 2 ad at the bottom of this page. That ad algorithm really knows its stuff — or not, since most of the eyeballs on this page are clearly coming to mock and criticize. I wonder if ads for Planned Parenthood (if they have internet ads) would show up on anti-abortion forums, because…

This thread has just made me recognize that @avclub-d892cfee412f049ca3da7ada13bcf9ff:disqus  and @avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus are different people. Good to know.

This thread has just made me recognize that @avclub-d892cfee412f049ca3da7ada13bcf9ff:disqus  and @avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus are different people. Good to know.

On the subject of American Exceptionalism:

On the subject of American Exceptionalism:

This also ties into one of the complaints made above, which is that when people start talking about what "Southerners" believe, they're rarely including black Southerners (or Hispanic Southerns or Native American Southerners, etc., etc.) in that category.

This also ties into one of the complaints made above, which is that when people start talking about what "Southerners" believe, they're rarely including black Southerners (or Hispanic Southerns or Native American Southerners, etc., etc.) in that category.

Could the problem be that the film is still not actually all that widely released? Critics still have to have a theater in the local market showing it if they're going to review it.