Hey, no worries. Bow out. Since you apparently take the time to comment every single time a human being makes an unoriginal joke in an article, I’m sure you’re a very, very busy guy.

Where in this lengthy article about how superhero movies should take more inspiration from superhero comics was he “decrying the outsized role superhero movies/shows occupy in the pop culture zeitgest”? He made a silly hyperbolic joke. You know, the same kind of thing all of the writers hosting NPS used to do here…

Do you think he was being literal? Do you really think that?

Shit sucked for a lot of people in the past, and they left contemporary accounts of how much the shit sucked. We’re not putting modern values on top of period pieces, we’re acknowledging that the same diverse, weird, funny, smart, yearning kinds of people who exist now were straining under the weight of societies that…

What’s frustrating about Starship Troopers is that the fucking critics didn’t get it, either. One of THE most misunderstood and underrated films in modern history. How could the same critics who rightfully called RoboCop a masterpiece turn around a few years later and not see that it’s the same themes and stories…

Starship Troopers is pretty far up there as well. 

I don’t think he’s disagreeing with Fincher, just acknowledging how he developed that alter-ego in the first place.  It’s not an endorsement.

I was about to celebrate that Julie Bowen was getting work and then remembered that she is not Julie Benz, the portrayer of Darla on Buffy. A mistake I make pretty consistently.

The fact that you can’t tell the difference between telling a “man walks into a bar” joke and what Hasan did is...fairly shocking. 

The problem with Minhaj is that his fabrications go into very creepy, manipulative places.

In general terms perhaps, but I think the situation does become greyer when it comes to the kind of Nanette-eseque “this is My Truth” autobiographical-confessional-didactical strain of stand-up comedy which has become a lot more common of late, where the whole point is that the comedian is supposed to be expounding…

Got a lot of respect that she’s been pretty private about what sounds like an abusive relationship due to Pitt’s substance use at the time. Not saying a victim isn’t entitled to speak publicly, especially in situations where the abuser is far more famous. But in this case, where the star power is equal, she’s…

People are reading this wrong, she simply decided to start leveling White Mage

I’m not sure how anyone could think it was geniunely disdainful of the folks calling bullshit, especially when you read this bit:

I don’t find the words of police sergeants very compelling, if I’m honest.

A failing of humanity writ large is overvaluing the personal/anecdotal evidence over mountains of evidence in the opposite direction. Unless you believe somebody was wrongly convicted, arguing for leniency on their behalf is more or less just saying “my experiences with that person weren’t where he raped anybody I…

“If I had a family member or close friend that was convicted of a crime, even a particularly disgusting one such as rape, it would be pretty hard to refuse a request to write about any redeeming values that might lighten the sentence. It would be akin to disowning them entirely.”
I don’t know if you’re a serial troll…

Red White and Royal Blue is one of the most appallingly dogshit books I’ve ever read. Tumblr teen fanfic quality humour and plot.

I read the book a few months ago. It was okay. Nothing ground-breaking. The film is even less so. I mean, what with Sober Macauley Culkin and Interchangeable Latino there’s a definite...lack of pizzazz and personality. (Also - no spoilers, but they changed one of my favourite bits from the book to a very vanilla…

I like the Swedish series “Young Royals” on Netflix. The “royal” is the heir to the throne! There is also a movie about a king who wants to retire and turn his kingdom to his son, who is gay. It has a great cast but can’t remember the name. Anyone know?