Wow, well done on the Shelby Foote series.The sheer volume of it scares the living hell out of me, but I really hope to get around to it someday.

Yeah, I mean the character (Levin) who does this is apparently supposed to be Tolstoy's fictional counterpart, so it's a bit easier to take because it's simply a reflection on Tolstoy's character rather than an overarching message of the novel. Nevertheless, as an atheist, it's a pretty uncomfortable note to end on.

Cat's Cradle was a delightful find for middle-school-aged/burgeoning-atheist me. Vonnegut was remarkable.

Anna Karenina, which I didn't finish in high school, and decided to start anew. Not really much hyperbole I can throw onto this book that hasn't been said before, but it's all true. I am still a little weirded out by the atheist-to-Christian conversion at the end of the novel, but I've just decided to compartmentalize…

The man confessed to his crimes and then proceeded to undermine the justice system by parading publicly about how he was the victim of political persecution. Those are facts. If you doubt them, then refute them. There's not any mystery to this story. What you're doing instead is displaying your unintelligence and…

You've never met the guy. You have no idea. I believed you called that "intellectual dishonesty" a few comments ago.

As you told me earlier, "Just because you're upset doesn't mean that you actually know what you're talking about." You clearly don't.

Didn't you tell D.R. Darke earlier that he "had anger issues" and "wasn't a very nice person." Do you know him personally? What a weird double standard you're setting up for yourself.

They cite their sources. So their "ultimate authority" comes from them assembling sources and summarizing them for you. Not from people believing them just because. If you doubt them, you can check out the sources yourself since they post them. How dense are you?

Thanks for that thoroughly useless assessment, troll. Did you actually think that made any sense when you were typing that?

Demian Bichir pulled off a miracle nomination for a film I still haven't seen some five years later, so it's always a possibility.

If they do, I have a certain children's book to send to their main office.

I think he goes for emotion, but I don't think he earns it. There's a difference between the subtlety that something like Boyhood builds up where Interstellar just throws a few "love is the fifth dimension" speeches and crying characters at the wall and hopes it counts. It's a lot of effort to make an audience care…

God, Essie Davis was beyond great in that film. I will be hoping for an out-of-nowhere nomination by the Academy in the Best Actress category, because she earned the shit out of it. It's unfair that there is so much bias against genre fare.

Since I was wrong about the readers' poll, I vote for the death of Chumph in Fargo. The whole thing still makes me sick.

I don't recall being polled on such a matter. For the record, I want to hear it.

Ahh, that's right. That question was both way too vague and way too specific at the same time. A weird paradox.

Wasn't that part of the readers' poll, or am I not remembering that correctly?

Too many to pick from, as GillianAndersonCooper said. The intensity of her telling off her father still haunts me.

Boyhood is another that has too many incredible scenes to have one stand out. If you had to pick one, then you made a good choice. But it's so damned hard. The film really earns every ounce of emotion.