Deadline said of the movie, “[Red One] is a globe-trotting, four-quadrant action-adventure comedy, imagining a whole new universe to explore within the holiday genre”

Also is anybody else just REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE with perfectly clean-shaven Eric Andre? I DON’T KNOW WHY IT MAKES ME FEEL SO WEIRD 

i think it’s crazy they never really introduced a social media component, or a group-watching function.

For a guy who is all about being pedantic you both don’t understand the context OR the meaning of the word rhetorically which is actually an impressive failure of language as it turns out.

I doubt you or Rife can reply to this, and I’m kinda doubtful you’ll even see it, but thanks for the years of writing for this site, edifying and entertaining a bunch of wannabe smartasses. I wish you and your colleagues the best on your future endeavors.

Pfft, you call that pedantic? If you were really being a pedant, you wouldn’t be treating the dictionary as a proscriptive document! Dictionaries are descriptive!

“Ever since I had a team-up with Matter-Eater Lad, my sense of what’s normal is a little fucked up.” That would mean that the Legion Of Super-Heroes exists in this bug-nuts DC Universe, which suits me fine.

It leads rise to a question going back to Empire Strikes Back: was Fett not actually paid to bounty hunt?

Ish. I was on your side during the reactionary comments on the first episode, but at this point... fucking DO something, TV show. It’s all prologue with things that promise to pay off later, and the pay off is usually “Boba Fett does something that a reasonably intelligent character with his background probably should…

When Boba Fett made his underlings move to Mos Espa did he give them cost of living raises? 

“what is it people want from Star Wars?”

You know, I’m something of a poster saying “Get fucked, G/O Media” myself.

I read this comment before reading the Vulture piece, and thought you were making up the “kinda/sorta admits to murdering a child” part for comic effect. Then I did read the piece and, uh, not really.

I love “succeeded downward”, and may steal it from you for future use.

He definitely didn’t “fail upwards” - he’s an asshole and an abusive prick, we can all acknowledge that (now), and he definitely got his foot (or feet, or whole big head) in the door due to his family history and connections. But in addition to his early TV work, he was a highly valued script doctor, then wrote most…

I don’t know how Whedon can claim to be working through trauma when he remains so defensive, or in such denial, about his own abusive behavior. You can’t work on being a better person when you can’t even acknowledge your own faults.

It’s not about intellect; it’s about socialization, power dynamics, and how younger women who may not have had the life experience to really get it are preyed on by older men. If a 50 year old dude dates ONE 23 year old, maybe it’s really a relationship of equals. But if that’s ALL he does, he’s a creep who knows…

I don’t like Whedon, but I don’t think it’s correct to say he “failed upwards”. He created multiple shows that were able to run for many seasons.

My man, if it was Eliza, at the time Buffy started, he was in his mid-30s and the boss of a network show and she wasn’t even 18 yet. I promise you, you can blame him! 

The thing about narcissists, right? They love hearing themselves talk, and they have no self-awareness to realize how they sound.