All true. Which makes them just like American pop groups! And the Hollywood casting couch. And Motown back in the day. What were we talking about?

I love their “I Feel You”. Pretty weird intro to a music video too.

There is no way anyone would have heard of this song, but like any genre finding the niche stuff outside of the most popular can be highly rewarding. Zagmachi - God’s Lament is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=rsx4fqzl6k4

For the last time, The Beatles are not a boy band! They play their own instruments. They made rock music. Just because rock happened to be popular when they were around does not make them a boy band.

Carly Rae Jepsen has critical love and indie respect. She’s the artiste in this example.

Nah, comedy is a social skill, and like any other skill you can practice it and learn it. Of course, natural talent exists, so not everyone will be a great comedian. But everyone can learn how to tell a joke properly. The idea that people are born with the ability is just there so people don’t feel bad about being…

Well, I haven’t seen this film so I can’t comment on its appropriateness, but Diary of a Teenage Girl had non same sex couples and a 15 year old girl, and people seemed to be mostly ok with it. The tone was more realist than approval or romantic, so I don’t know if that affects this argument since I don’t know what…

It’s amazing that every successive commenting system has been worse than the last. I’m still here because there are no other places I’ve found to go commenting, or maybe I’m too lazy to find them. This place is a shitshow now, but commenters gotta comment.

Isn’t everyone but Nucky, and Jimmy in the first two seasons, arguably a side character by that standard then?

Chalky, and MKW, was great, but best and most complex character? I’m not sure about that. Stephen Graham and Michael Stuhlbarg were doing great work with Al Capone and Arnold Rothstein respectively. And the writing wasn’t always up to par with her talents, but given what she got Kelly Macdonald was great as Margaret.

Just checked her wikipedia and the only thing I recognized there was Keanu, which I haven’t seen. Is there some brilliant film or TV work in there that I haven’t heard about? Is Girl’s Trip amazing or something? Genuinely curious.

Looking was everything I wanted Girls to be, by which I mean actually good.

Ok. Feel free to assume anything you want about my beliefs that I didn’t state. You would be wrong, but I don’t think you care that much about being wrong, or of correctly identifying what people do or do not believe. To clarify, I do not believe big government or oversight are inherently bad. I think they are good…

Holy shit, Miller? From OG AV Club?

Seriously, has no one read a Spiderman? Or seen a Spiderman? The Objectivist claims against the Incredibles could be given for almost any superhero. The conflict between the superpowered being allowed to do things outside the scope of the law and the average citizen is superheroes 101.

This isn’t going to help since the people who would disagree with this I already think are morons, but the line “If everyone is special, no one is” is semantically true. “Special” as a word only works if it is in a comparison. Some things need to be different than other things so that they can be isolated and deemed…

“I’m not sure how that differs significantly from, say, Atlas Shrugged.”

Other people in the comments are telling you how it differs, maybe you should try reading and thinking about what the words mean instead of glossing over other people just so you can write your point 50 times.

Also, it’s not libertarian to suggest…

I get what you’re saying Jesse, but other critics on this site have called it at least in part a remake.

Not everything in a film is plot. Yes, the plot aspects are handholdy, but not the character work, which was the initial premise of my post.

I tend to associate dumb with handholding, not things lacking realism. The latter is a stylistic choice, whereas the former assumes something negative about the audience (or unearned complexity about the film). Under that thought, Ocean’s 11 isn’t dumb. It’s not particularly subtle, but it lays out most of its…