Uhhh because their name refers to them as being a death metal band? I think it's pretty understandable?

Yes and proud we are of all of them.

Yeah I'd be really disappointed if they tried to pass off the musical numbers as some kind of psychosis. It's a musical, songs happen in musicals - we've already bought into the premise. No need for in-universe explanations. That Greg had his own song without Rebecca around is a good sign.

The advantage of a musical show though is that it can make the network additional money by selling the music. That's about the only thing that gives me hope :/

It's a much more impressively choreographed fight than anything in the originals though.

Star Wars is one of the biggest pop cultural touchstones in the world. So yeah, people on a pop culture website want to talk about it, especially when a new one is coming out. And regardless of how defensible the prequels really are, I'd rather have one "life in the wreckage" piece that I partly disagree with than the…

That's not to say there aren't interesting failures in art, though, and discussing some of the ways the utter failure of the prequels was tempered by some mild successes helps us understand film in general.

There are more than two opinions people can have. The problem wasn't that he picked the wrong one of the two, it was that he was a dick about it.

You misunderstand me. Despite my avatar, I'm white, and I'd like to think that I get the joke. I'm not saying white people can't get the joke, just that the SNL audience is broad and mostly white and a large portion of it does not have the most enlightened views on race (not that I'm calling myself supremely…

I fucking hate Sam Smith but yeah I love that Disclosure/Lorde song and her performance was really good. The video is great too, with Lorde being all witchy and lighting a swimming pool on fire and shit.

It's tough because the perspective of the sketch seems to be about black people poking fun at their own culture, but since it's done for a mostly-white SNL audience you have to imagine a lot of people laughing for the wrong reasons which is uncomfortable :/

*ANGEL SPOILERS BELOW*

Like I said, cultural baggage. It's not a matter of getting or not getting the song. It's a matter of the way women dress being implicitly tied to our culture's appraisal of their authenticity, intelligence, virtuousness, etc. So if Taylor mentions that her 'rival' in the song wears short skirts and high heels, that's…

Nah I think Tool had a huge influence on bands that did more of the moody, gloomy type of nu-metal than Limp Bizkit. They played Ozzfest a few times and clearly influenced the sound of bands like Korn and Mudvayne.

There's absolutely no way in hell Guy Fieri does not listen to All Star while he masturbates. And he says to himself "That's right. I am an all star."

How dare people view pop culture through their world view? The way that absolutely everyone does?

Yeah, the whole "started wearing less and going out more" shit is like "don't you know how much pain you're causing me by living your own life that I'm not even a part of anymore in a way I don't approve of?" Creepy/controlling as hell.

Regardless, there's a whole lot of cultural baggage tied to how women dress, so the song's lyrics tap into that in unfortunate ways whether that's what Taylor meant or not.

"Live Die Repeat" at least gives you some sense of what makes the film unique (its premise) even if it's not a very exciting title. "All You Need is Kill" sounds ridiculously stupid and is, to me, the worst of the three, but they're all pretty bad titles IMO.

Well I don't get the sense that Mike actually published reviews of any of the movies he didn't finish. I think that's actually a very unprofessional thing to do, and just because Ebert's fully-informed opinion matched his minimally informed one doesn't make it right that he did it.