I’ve always had a soft spot for this kind of thing. It’s a problematic soft spot, as I remember so many games of GTA and GTA2 started and abandoned as the underlying mechanics don’t actually sustain continued play, IMO. It gets so very samey so very fast. Even Chinatown Wars didn’t really punch through that, although…

I’m not american so I barely follow some of the underlying details and people.

I often lament that, due to their position running this fucking patriarchy, people (men included) really fail to understand what makes men tick. Yes yes yes there are lots of differences between different kinds of men, but there are some key similarities.

Limiting ourselves to restaurants mortals can afford to eat at, what are we talking here? $20?

I like your take.

Its clear to everyone that Season 8 has a lot of issues.

Every time the subject of influencers comes up I think of one thing

Allow me to go really low rent with this reply. But honestly these Hello Fresh kits we’ve been using for a bit have introduced me to an EXCELLENT trick for chicken that I’m amazed I’ve never heard of before.

The further I get from each episode this season, the more I kind of totally fall in love with them? Oh, sure, they are flawed as hell and nowhere near peak Game of Thrones, but endings are always hard and filled with unresolved issues and conflicts. The things that initially disappointed me, are turning into things…

Actually it would mostly just be a cold day in your house.

You did. Wind River is a stealth-MCU feature. It’s not very widely known.

Paula Abdul inspired a lot of ...feelings...for me during puberty.

I can see a discussion of “is this actually fridging?” but not an assertion that its the complete opposite of fridging (and am fond of my conclusion of “this is what fridging looks like when done by woke people”). She clearly dies to serve the plot, not her character. That’s ...problematic, on some level or another.

I’m glad we got to talk about this.

As they found a way to resurrect Gamora (mentioned only because it matches one key constraint so well), I’m sure they could have found some way to do this that didn’t result in the one “signatory” avenger - the only female, the only one deprived of a feature film, and the one who was…

As a life long fat person (to varying degrees) I am so just fed up with the idea of fat acceptance, which I feel is the undercurrent of the disappointment with cliches used in this film. The historical use of fat cliches are problematic, and I thought this film was not careless in its use of them, although it did lean…

The thing that sticks with me is how I feel like there are ways to do what they needed to do, and satisfy what this author finds unsatisfying. Especially with Captain Underpants.

The fan-service itself brought a lot of tears to my face. I was leaking constantly for the entire third act.

Where I was comfortable with it fitting the form is in how she died a plot device. I think you could even make a credible argument that she might have been born a plot device too: show up, look sexy, say a few soft feminine things to the Hulk, have no movie of your own, and die in this movie ignoring the stakes set up…

I still can’t understand how the same movie can do the Femvengers scene, and stuff Black Widow into a fridge before it happens.

Picking on what I now know are the obligatory tools of taking care of African american hair is blatantly racists.