Whoever it was in previous discussions that called Veidt being in the statue, good work. I thought it was so far out of left field at the time that it couldn’t possibly be true.

The institutional problem with SNL is not the issue of a live show and guest hosts. Late night shows pump out similar amounts of humor involving topical stuff on incredibly tight deadlines using guest bits. Colbert or Conan is not the same as SNL, of course, but the institutional challenges of putting out their shows…

Maybe if someone plays the sound of other living Reef Breaks it’ll attract life back to this Reef Break.

AVClub commentariat, settle this for me. Gina Carano’s voice overdubbed by another actor in Haywire - bitter, joy-murdering truth or cursed, hateful rumour?

TV in the VHS era really dulled the effect of what you saw on the screen, though. I remember in the 90s struggling to explain how much better Star Wars looked compared to other special effects movies from the same era. The problem was the guy I was talking to had only seen them on TV, and it was too hard to tell.

I’m not sure when John Boyega last saw the original trilogy, but huge stretches of those movies involve the core trio being split up. The amount of time they’re all in the same scene together across those three films doesn’t add up to a whole lot.

The comments here pretty much make his point.

See, this is why you have kids; in order to pass your contempt down to subsequent generations. Life is beautiful.

Like Amy Schumer, before she pissed a lot of people off Lena Dunham was primarily a really great writer. The first season of Girls was painfully familiar to a lot of people. Hopefully she can get back to that, and consistency, and basics.

The only thing I could think about when looking down this “films the AV Club didn’t review” list was how many Great Job, Internet articles have run this year.

“because you know why" 

If they had simply said look, even a heavy metal ball can’t penetrate the window, it would’ve looked miraculous as compared to every other truck on the market. Saying it was bulletproof was a dumb move on their part.

I’m very sorry that Paltrow is doing whatever this is she is doing now, because she is legitimately one of my favourite actresses. I just finished reading She Said, and the book makes it pretty clear that Paltrow withdrew herself from acting after years of workplace abuse from Harvey Weinstein (so I like to at least…

I know Paltrow’s not really known for her acting ability anymore, but she was pretty great in this (and also did the brilliant-but-cold-and-damaged-character-with-father-issues thing pretty well in Proof).

To answer your question now that I’ve seen the pilot: intuition and an over-reliance on the old chestnut that “other senses are heightened to compensate for the loss of sight.” Really.

Probably a little of Column A, a little of Column B.

Is Hardhome the one where they introduce the hacky lazy writer gimmick of if you kill the head vampire all his thralls die too? Because while the action (not DnD’s dept) was great, as usual the plotting was big old bullshit.

To be honest, I think their approach to the adaptation was pretty clear right from the beginning, which is one reason there was so much trepidation from book fans. I think when the show turned out to not immediately be awful - and even to be popular with the general public - I think a lot of fans overreacted into…

I’m trying not to read snark in the opening paragraph—I know how much of that is the reader and not the words—so maybe it’s my misread, but can we not spend so much time on Alan Moore’s opposition to adaptation if its going to reductively not include the complexities of creator rights, work for hire, authorship and…

I mean, the lyrics of “Blurred Lines” were pretty gross, but: