A buddy of mine got his wife an ALF dvd collection for Christmas because she loved it as a child. They sat down and popped one in and didn’t make it through the first episode.

Wait, so Rey is a Mary Sue, but Chirrut Imwe is not a Gary Stew? She lives a hardscrabble lifetime of streetfighting and climbing/parkour through downed Star Destroyers (i.e. equivalent to the days of training that Luke got on Doagobah) and Chirrut is a blind middle-aged man with no force abilities who takes down…

Luke with milk in his beard is about demystifying the last Jedi. He’s not the great space wizard who’s going to save everyone, he’s just a bitter, weird old hermit. I think it’s a lot more subversive to leave that kind of thing than to take it out.

This is pathetic. Seriously, who is that threatened by a film that has a strong woman? I know that’s rhetorical, but it’s just sad.

Don’t let my wife know that version exists!

I used to really love talking about Star Wars until some asshats decided that it had to be more than just a fun series. Fucking reddit asshole fanboys

Please stop with “I have a daughter now, so...” How about, “I’m a human being and always have been, so...”

What particularly got me (beyond the general high levels of horror here) was his implication that she’s lying because her account is detailed. What the actual fuck?

I was in high school in Albuquerque in the early 2000s and can personally attest to the fact that majority of music played by contemporary pop/rock radio stations was ~10 years old—think Matchbox 20, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, the Counting Crows, etc. It wasn’t until I moved out of state for college that I became fully…

Between that and Whedon’s treatment of Chrisma Carpenter, it’s a wonder anyone still buys into his “male feminist” schtick.

I’m so sorry she had to go through something so awful, and admire her for coming forward.

Eliza Dushku is telling the truth. I was on the True Lies set for 3 weeks and reported Joel Kramer’s inappropriate sexual behavior towards 12-year-old Eliza to a person in authority. I was met with blank stares and had the sense that I wasn’t telling that person anything they didn’t already know. I tried to keep Joel…

One of my favorite ever av club comments was in response to a thread of people saying (insane) disparaging things about Eliza Dushku’s looks. Someone wrote a post to the effect of, Eliza Dushku is better looking than anyone that anyone in this forum will ever get with, you dorito-stained CHUDs.

I don’t think the timing was that off. I was starting high school in 2002 and those songs were still very much around. I remember getting into a Dave Matthews argument. Wouldn’t say they were treated as radio staples in the film (though I forget the context of Hand In My Pocket). Captured the vibe of early 00s…

This piece of shit not only used his influence to gain her family’s trust but to literally threaten her life if she spoke. He could have easily killed her and called it an accident. He might as well have pointed a gun to her head. This makes me so unbelievably angry I could spit. There’s a special place in hell for a…

Check his comment history. He enjoys fine dining, walks by the beach, calling sexual assault survivors “attention seekers,” and defending fine upstanding gentlemen like T.J. Miller.

Nah. Iran hostage crisis, plane hijackings, Israeli suicide bombings...the stereotype of Arab terrorism was around long before 2001.

Did you miss the part in her post where she says the guy spent months earning her parents’ trust?

Re: sexual politics and cliched Arab terrorists. Almost every single “comedy” from the 80's and 90's will be impossible to watch anymore. I just watched Fletch Lives (yeah, I know, wasn’t great in the first place, but a guilty pleasure of mine) and in the first 15 minutes alone it has crazy racist overtones, misogyny,…

Saoirse is actually See/Sea-rsha, apparently Ronan is the only one who pronounces it Ser-sha, i once saw Irish people describe her as “that chick that doesn’t know how to pronounce her own name.”