Then why did me have bowl, Charlie, why did me have bowl?!?

It’s a mater of subjective opinion. But the thing is, on a more objective level it was what it set out to be and as such has to be considered a success whether you like what it set out to be or not...

ah yes, and you of course are the arbiter of what constitutes “polite society”

what a farce. 

They won’t do a 180. They never ever will. These are people who disregard facts and pander an alternate reality to millions of people to the detriment of millions more. If conversation and persuasion does nothing to stop this, then society takes it upon itself to tell them they aren’t welcome. If there were any…

Naw, man. It’s not “people”, it’s Tucker Carlson. Regular ol’ assholes are still out in restaurants across the country, not being yelled at. This racist asshole, who’s using his platform to endanger people and worsen our national landscape, as well as your Huckabee-Sanders and your Stephen Millers should absolutely be…

Counter point, when you sell your soul for millions and use your platform to hurt others there are consequences.

Since this partially reboots the continuity, there was only one murder in the early 60s, then a few more in 1978. So not terribly surprising that 40 years later it’s not such a big deal. Although you’d think that having escaped once before there would be more scrutiny around Michael’s transfer.

Well since there are five in total and a remake, I can’t argue with that. A mid-period entry at best.

With all due respect, sir, I believe that was Ed Harris’ finest hour.

The Right Stuff is such brilliant filmmaking on a level far beyond just the space race (which I am a junkie for as well). I get that some people might not like the art film 70s aspect of it, and the choice to go dark comedy at times and mythic cowboy Americana at others, but it’s what truly makes it a one in a billion…

The thing that makes this movie so authentic is that they shot it on the same sets NASA used to fake the landing in the first place.

I love how genuinely terrifying a lot of it is. Really sells home the fact that we somehow were able to send people to the moon by strapping them to a projectile using force that at that time had never been conceived in a non-weaponized fashion. It’s incredible.

It came out during a perfect shitstorm in which people reeeeaaaaaaallllly were calling out The Oscars for a lack of diversity. The fact that it starred two white actors and had Jazz a major component of the film basically planted a big red target on its bag.

I agree it’s a great film. However, it can’t be the best space movie of all time since The Right Stuff is, no doubt, still that. Along with being one of the greatest movies ever made, space or no space. 

“MINUSES ARE MADE UP!”

When “La La Land” came out on blu-ray, I was hoping the TV ads would say, “Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture for six minutes!”

Some people (and, as per usual, this is like 12 people on twitter that somehow constitute a “movement”) think La La Land was offensive because Ryan Gosling “explained Jazz”. But two things: A) He showed a lot of love for black Jazz musicians; and B) I think his character was kind of supposed to be a pretentious ass.

Really? How are there no links to this in the Recommended Stories module? You’re slippin’, AV Club. You’re slippin’.

The Right Stuff, and Apollo 13 have set a high bar for that assertion to clear.

Saw a prescreener last week - this movie is fucking brilliant. Top 3 of the year for me, no doubt, and the best Space History movie to ever be released (sorry, Ron Howard) by a country mile. A story that would’ve seemed sappy as hell from almost any other director (and scattershot - the vignette nature somehow works…