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Because of Reilly, I just assumed Cirque Du Freak was a parody movie—I didn't know it was supposed to be taken seriously.

Whoa—I haven't seen anyone bring up The Big Joke Game in twenty-five years! I don't think been in print since the '70s, has it?

IIRC, only some elements, like the smoke coming off the Cauldron-Born, are CGI—the majority of the film is hand-drawn animation, still looking like Disney in the '70s (i.e. Fox & the Hound, The Rescuers, etc.).

Oh, so *that's* why I never read Ellroy. Thanks!

Yeah, once I looked at the rest of his comment history, I decided it was better to just back away.

Let's just say one guy responded to me with "Feminists invented rape".

Dude, if you think it's bad now, you should've been here before the mods deleted some of the really nasty stuff.

How exactly do people emigrate? I mean, you need to go to another country, get some sort of work permit, get a job with a livable wage, and move your family/stuff to the new country. Me, I have a dead-end job, only speak English fluently, and don't have any money—people like me are stuck where we live. Hell, I can't

Hey A.V. Club—get rid of Disqus and its flood of trolls, and I'll turn off Adblocker. Deal?

No one who speaks German could be an evil man!

So a few days ago, Donald Trump announces that he's running for president with the following

Hey, they don't plunder Harvard for writers for nothing, you know.

Oh, absolutely—it's really hard to watch and not think of Ford's Grapes of Wrath at times, and that must be deliberate.

I actually really like that Nebraska was in black and white—for me, it emphasizes the timelessness of that type of story: the self-delusion, the desire for money, the unscrupulousnes of family, the windswept plains. The story could've been set in the Depression just as easily.

You forgot Three Mile Island, which happened a mere week and about 100 miles from my own nativity. I like to think it is as a sign. Not a good sign, but a sign nonetheless.

If, as has often been the case, rape goes unreported because of various factors—women are embarrassed, or not believed, or traumatized—then it is de facto consequence-free.

I'm saying that interview read to me that the director didn't view that scene as rape.

I mean, yeah, we could just have no emotional investment in fictional characters, but then why would we even bother to watch it then? What's the point of watching rape/murder/political intrigue/awesome dragons if it's not saying anything? Why are you watching something if you're not getting anything out of it?

We got it from the director in this case:

Well, hey, if we want to be honest, state entities killing people isn't seen as a crime either, depending on where you go in the U.S.—you just have to be killing the right people, whether that's convicts, or just young black men. The horror here was Stannis killing his own kin, not that he killed someone for political