This was an A- episode, at least up to and including Weekend Update.

At the screening I went to, Mangold did an in-person Q&A where he decried PG-13 comic book movies for their "porno violence." He was talking about how it's irresponsible to not show the impact of kills and sell it to kids. But I don't see how by taking the opposite of that approach this doesn't become its own brand of…

In terms of its pop-vernacular, Buffy seems fairly influenced by '90s pomo totems like Scream, Tarantino films, and Clerks. But of course it's all conjecture. You're influenced by everything you saw and liked.

Semi-related: I have a friend who thinks rap music is a "safe space" for white males to indulge their misogyny. He's only correct to the degree that other white people aren't going to call out that genre for sexism, but it's still a stupid way to castigate an entire style of music, and a worst-case view of why people…

Metal's audience is quite large and diverse. Some acts and some fans are bigoted assholes. It's not a problem with the umbrella "metal" genre, and how is it expected to address it?

Oscars just played "Nowhere Fast" from STREETS OF FIRE before commercial break. Best part of the night.

Zootopia is just slightly better.

I didn't care for it much either, but movie directors make commercials all the time between film projects.

Strange Days is obviously better than the other movies mentioned here, but it's only 30% an action movie.

That's because it missed the whole draw of the first movie, which is that John McClane is not Rambo. So it just became like everything else, and is only lifted by Renny Harlin doing his best Tony Scott imitation.

Waterworld is a good action-adventure movie, so I don't really know what any of you are talking about.

I think Desperado, which is itself heavily influenced by John Woo and Sam Raimi, had a lot of influence, especially on the DTV and sub-Tarantino market. I loved it as a teen, and it's well-staged, but even for a brainless action movie it's brainless.

Bad Boys is okay, but movies that aren't Under Siege 2: Dark Territory can fuck off.

Everyone but Gene Siskel, who (along with Ebert's rave) convinced a friend of mine that Die Hard 2 was a universally beloved film before the advent of the internet proved otherwise.

Yup. It's his most fit-for-humans movie, but not the most representative of who he is as a filmmaker.

It's so bland. It's just more rich-kid nonsense where 15-year-old dorks have washboard abs and porno sex. At least on DAWSON'S CREEK you knew Joey was poor because her yard trees were taller than her house.

I'm no fan of Katy Perry, but the tone of a lot of the recent pop writing on this site (pretending we're stupid so we can misconstrue something in the worst way possible) can be pretty condescending.

I think Maher-hate is overblown among certain liberals, but he does seem to set off some type of ick-factor in a lot of people. He isn't funny, and still thinks talking about smoking weed makes him edgy, but he has his own opinions without towing the party-line, which is actually novel for the pandering world of late…

There was no black culture before Beyonce. I should know. I'm 15.

Yup. I'm fine with Beyonce as an artist, even if I don't personally find her interesting, but most of those worshipping her are only about her celebrity,. When there's collective agreement to elevate anyone to deity status, it's never healthy.