Yeah, it's a flaw in the whole concept. "Hate" is an emotional thing: we may dislike a piece of culture based on critical analysis, but we hate it based on some emotion provoked. The best we can hope for is either 1) really funny hate or 2) someone backing their instinctual hatred some some critical analysis (which…

Okay, so instead of a vapid song by a dumb teenager it's a pretentious vapid song by a dumb teenager. Good to know.

Yeaah, I'm sure it does. I just first listened to it during a real punk-y phase, so "Sleater-Kinney does classic rock," no matter how good, wasn't going to get revisited.

I dunno, I guess it's hard to say a sketch show has a "lead" (Eddie Murphy's years on SNL being the exception to that rule).

I still have a soft spot for Rancid, but, yeah, Sleater-Kinney is the best (though I'll admit I'm only so-so on The Woods).

SPOILER: that guy's gone, nobody who is left cares what he thinks.

Well, is it actually a prequel, though? People seem to alternate between calling a prequel and calling it a reboot, but those are very different things. A prequel is supposed to leave us with Charlton Heston, but a reboot shouldn't.

And if that doesn't work, he seems to be making good money writing scripts people are intentionally never going to make.

Zach de la Rocha is unquestionably a major critic of the state of Israel, and since Zionism refers to the political movement to maintain the state of Israel, it ain't that too terribly off. That said I've never seen anything that indicates he doesn't think Israel should exist, thought maybe he thinks it should exist…

Also, worst dystopia ever: "we're all starving yet we all have internet connections able to run massive virtual reality worlds!"

You and everyone else saying this are acting like some independent studio is making this who doesn't have access to any IP. Warner Brothers is making this. So all the reference will be rewritten to be about WB IP, which there is a hell of a lot of, and the rest will be junked.

I think it depends on how you evaluate. As Box Office Mojo noted in their report, Fox was only expecting under $50 million, so that's a "success." The same report also notes that, since 2008, no major animated feature to debut in June has come in under $60 million. So, "failure."

Plus fake Buzzfeed quizzes.

It's how I bought my copy 4 months ago!

I dunno, maybe it was how it was marketed here in the US. I was uninterested by the trailers here, which really didn't hint at the dark comedic aspects of the movie. It took some early reviews to convince me this was something I wanted to see (I liked it a lot), but I dunno how much reviews actually influence large…

Shit, that's still a marked improvement over my generation, who posted Linkin Park lyrics on Livejournal to prove how deep we were. I say the kids have won this round.

Yep, because everyone's going to be watching that Thursday night Bills/Dolphins game!

You mean the network that came number one in the demo last year? That network with a lot of problems?

The trademarks apply to the titles of the comics, not the character names. So DC could have a Captain Marvel, but they couldn't call the comic that. I guess they finally got tired of the character name/comic name dichotomy.

Trademark. After Fawcett couldn't publish Captain Marvel anymore due to DC's copyright lawsuit, the trademark on the name lapsed. Therefore there was nothing preventing Marvel from trademarking the name when they created their character.