a) I love his Hamlet adaptation

His Henry V is legitimately great, and he’s great in the role. I also love his Hamlet - he had the audacity to make a 4+ hour adaptation of the entire, unabridged play - though I get it’s a bit florid for some. He’s also been good in straight acting roles in movies directed by other people. He was outstanding as Iago…

Yep, I was in Sydney last winter (Southern Hemisphere version) and the Australian junior national skating team was putting on a performance in Darling Harbour. They definitely know about it. Robbie is just depressingly young.

You might be in the wrong place.

The thing is, I think all of these movies underplay the true effects of a total nuclear war given the number and power of nuclear weapons we and the Soviets had in the Eighties. The Last Ship (the novel, not the terrible TV show based on it) probably gets closer to the truth: all major land masses become completely…

Can’t really say - I think I saw it ages ago but it didn’t make much of an impression

Threads. It’s gut-wrenching, although it supposes that anyone would still be alive in Britain after a full nuclear exchange.

I was a little kid when I saw this too. Of course I grew up in and around NYC so there was no doubt what would happen to us. For the next year I remember looking up at the sky at every contrail- there are always a lot of planes in the air around New York- and thinking they could be incoming warheads.

If a consequence of the Kinja-ing is more longform articles from Sean then maybe we’ll survive it

As is Roger Corman (91)!

The whole thing was a wrestling work. Evidently Mayweather tried to put a $400k bet on himself to win before the middle of the tenth round (which he did). He clearly had the whole fight planned out ahead of time and knew he could keep McGregor on his feet long enough to put on a decent show

The premise of this movie is offensive on general principles. It sounds like awful fan fiction. Who would this appeal to?

Just keep pestering the help desk (help@gizmodomedia.com). The conversion tool is clearly fucked, esp. for people who had legacy AVC accounts and Disqus accounts (like me). I think they are literally going through and ungrey-ing people one by one as they complain (they got to me yesterday). Hell, O’Neal was manually…

I kept pestering the help desk (help@gizmodomedia.com) until they finally pulled me out yesterday afternoon. O’Neal did post a follow-up article yesterday. His comments made it seem the senior staff does actually hate the transition. Hopefully there won’t be another mass exodus of the remaining talent because of this.

Testing again

If you don’t see “pending approval” on any of your new posts you should be in the clear (I think)

I just got un-greyed via the help desk & tried following you - see if that helps. If it does maybe we can get a cascade of un-greying going?

Seconded (and I suggested something along those lines on the feedback form)

I’m still stuck in the greys, so this may not show up. However: I’ve been reading the AV Club since it was the print-only, “serious” part of the Onion. Like many long-time readers, I’m concerned that folding AVC into the remnants of the Gawkerverse will kill the unique perspective and voice that makes this place so…

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