I think there was a brief part in the film where they try to convey that he fools everyone by just enthusiastically talking about the product. He’s telling his family his cover story and he just goes into all the boringness of software and they stop paying attention. 

I enjoy the unspoken joke of a guy who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger  going through life pretending to be an unassuming software salesman and everyone just buys it.

Eastern Europeans were also really easy since the collapse of the Soviet Union left the region a geopolitical mess and most Americans couldn’t pick one country on a map.

I can’t speak for his real-life personality (certainly having an affair, and child, with his maid, whom he had power over, wasn’t cool), but Arnold always had a pretty good comic sensibility. Not just here, but in Last Action Hero, Twins, and Kindergarten Cop, for example.

IIRC, this was around the time where the standard villain was starting to move from a brown man with an accent to a fantastically wealthy white man. Or, occasionally, an Eastern European white man with an accent. Although most of those were either Russian Oligarchs or wannabe Russian oligarchs, so still fantastically…

I stopped watching TWD on that fakeout ending and never came back. It was such a slap in the face to the viewer and I already knew what was likely happening from the comics (which I later confirmed by reading a recap of the next season’s premiere). 

You’re dead on with the fake outs for Glenn’s “death” earlier. They did way too much Boy Who Cried Wolf shit with him, so dragging it out when people who read the comics knew he was Negan’s big victim was just annoying as hell. And I assume, for those who hadn’t read the comics, it was equally annoying due to the…

Is that kid still alive?

I gave up on the show before that episode (not even the show’s fault, I was just beyond my fill of “man is the real monster” zombie stories. Speaking of over-egged omelets...), but I did see the scene, and yeah, I get why folks hated it. Effects-wise it was fantastic, absolutely nauseating and disturbing, but very…

Negan and this moment sucked in the comics and sucked in the show. Kirkman has one trick in that state constantly increase the sadism. Does the same in invincible.

re: “Makeup And Props Department (Eyeball Bulging Out Of A Guy’s Skull) Division”

He seems to be avoiding another big part of why people hated the death, that the previous season had spent numerous episodes faking Glenn’s death before revealing he was still alive, which was then abruptly rendered totally pointless. I’ll go to my grave believing this cliffhanger went down the way it did because they…

Just want to point out that the new Kinja AVClub way of putting another article under the first decides that this headline, after talking about David Crosby’s sperm, would be this

I got a Community notification for this

“I leave my iPod Nano, full of music to take life less seriously by.”

I used to think she was just misinformed but the obsessiveness and paranoia points to her having major mental health problems now.

I may get the nepo baby thing if you’re the son or daughter of someone famous, but niece or nephew seems a stretch. I am admittedly biased though, as my Uncle was a famous sitcom actor in the UK when I was a kid, but the rest of the family never saw a penny of that money, and we only ever saw him in the flesh once a…

What’s a little ridiculous about this specific callout is that Clooney DID get shit-talked about his connections. But it was, you know, 30 fucking years ago or more. I get her point but she really should have chosen an example from THIS era, not the release of Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes.

“By that, we mean each sparked an overripe powder keg of discourse...”

Yeah, when was the last time anyone thought about Jake Busey