Hollywood doesn't care about it because RT pushes it, Hollywood cares about it because Hollywood pushes it. The tomatometer score became important because studios started pushing their RT score in advertising, with Pixar being the first studio to do so.

The MCU seems to suggest they're not fully compatible or incompatible. Existing MCU films range from successful director-driven films to studio productions, with several falling in-between that range. There's no history to incentivize the MCU to stop hiring these directors.

The surveillance program is shown to have orthodox approval throughout SHIELD, including by non-Hydra agents, and Cap is uncomfortable with it from the very beginning, before it's revealed to be "bad". Your reading isn't supported by the text.

That other field would be television, where directors follow the vision of showrunners, just like people who work for the MCU are going to be following the vision of Feige.

Ant Man was pretty well liked. There was definitely a strong media narrative of "let's compare it to the imaginary Edgar Wright film that didn't get made" behind it though.

I have one episode of Smackdown, ten episodes of Impact, about ten months of SMASH, and all of Lucha Underground to catch up on. Now there's this. If the entire world could very kindly put itself on pause for me, and just stop making wrestling related things for about three months, that would be great.

No, I meant to type that.

"And the idea of people who voted for Trump voting for Bernie instead, is just ridiculous."

Until you prove both, you're just using hard numbers to try and obscure the fact that you're making baseless logical leaps.

Thank god there's a block of voters that constitute a monolithically homogeneous entity that holds all responsibility for Clinton's loss. That sounds logical and not all like a nonsensical scapegoat-ready strawman.

Watching so much of the American left engage in nonsensical, self-congratulatory scapegoating has been one of the most bizarre things to come from this election.

The mystical hot tub was an odd idea. They could have done better with that plot.

I think the comic works really well as enjoyable schlock.

Bullshit. Nothing about the individual you were talking to implied jack shit about you being black.

and I earned two degrees from The Johns Hopkins University.

Previously Recorded is the only game stream I watch, and their Friday The 13th stream may be favourite thing they've done.

I ended up figuring out that I was supposed to be grinding once I got to The Beast and died within 30 seconds five times in a row. But I refused to backtrack so I just replayed the fight repeatedly until I got proficient enough at defensively maneuvering around the battlefield to keep my health up.

"No. Someone with his insidious views and an established audience needs to be publicly contradicted by any available voice of sanity and reason."

"classical liberal"

I started playing The Witcher. The first one. So far there's been a lot of backtracking around a single village, underwhelming combat, and very a lot of "bring me three flowers/kill five dogs" quests. The world seems interesting, so I'll keep playing, but I'm on the fence so far.