“... is insane, but it’s too insane to ever be taken seriously ....”

What I’m really looking forward to is that guy who posts every week to reiterate how much he hates the fact that every week, the A.V. Club posts a recap of Last Week Tonight’s central segment. While, yes, simply recapping something that was on TV as “news” is kind of lame, I fully appreciate the A.V. Club reminding me…

Is Kinja owned by spiders now?

One fascinating thing the writers have latched onto here is how easy and natural it is for Andrew to quickly read people and then manipulate them, either subtly or not. In the scene where Jeff flies into a rage because Andrew essentially threatens his family, Andrew turns the tables by saying that Jeff is hurting him.…

Boy, you really told me. Thank you, citizen.

Denzel took James Franco’s spot because James Franco is a scumbag and the Academy wasn’t about to celebrate that shit this year. Not saying Franco deserved it for what was basically an impression, but that Roman J. Israel movie was ridiculous.

I don’t care much for legacy awards.

Think it was when he was at the Harvard Lampoon that Simon Rich described the surefire Oscar bait role as “a mentally handicapped math prodigy growing up gay during the Civil War.”

“As a rule of thumb, I don’t go for clients and any mook can tell you that water types and electric types don’t mix. But this dame had gams up to her shell and moxie. She had me eating pokeberries out of the palm of her hands in not time”

“I was at the bottom of a bottle of whiskey way too early in the day, when there was a knock at the door.

Correct!

I’m not sure this is the right movie for this rant.

you sound like a fun person.

Got to see Donatas Banionis in his whitey tighties tho.

OK, but unlike with Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina, there was never a moment during Solaris when I was hoping Donatas Banionis would bust out his sweet dance moves...

That particular line is a reference to Sunshine, which—unless I’m mistaken—is a Garland original.

That comment was more to make the point that we look on things from the ancient world and recent history differently.  

Well, Rey did take the Jedi texts with her, but then there was an obvious “passing the torch” moment with Leia and Poe when she says “What are you all looking at me for? Follow him!” (or whatever the line was). Rose tells Finn that they should save the things they love, not destroy the things they hate, which is a way…