Card took a common slang term for gay men, assigned it to an alien race and then wiped them out. 
And then he specifically said that wiping them out was a horrible thing that causes Ender to spend the rest of his life trying to make amends.  It is interesting that you acknowledge it but still don't see it as…

@avclub-17642f168c28dfb8656664961cc39197:disqus :  Well, if you think about it, that can be a product of society itself changing.  For a completely fictional example, perhaps in the 1940's an open-minded person would believe homosexuality was alright as long as it was never admitted out loud.  Take that same person…

@avclub-8adc83a4252503bdddcc1ecf539b2904:disqus :  It's fine if he's looking for something different out of the show than us, but it's the fact that he's writing an article about the show and conveniently forgets to mention some of its most heartfelt moments that is suspicious.  It means he came into the article with…

@avclub-17642f168c28dfb8656664961cc39197:disqus :  I've heard that complaint before (about Kimura voicing Howl) which I think is absurd.  Maybe I'm the only one, but when I watch a movie, my first thought is whether or not the voice fits the character, not the backstory of whoever is providing that voice.  And I think…

Wait, are we not considering Whisper of the Heart one of the top tier classics?

I rather liked Poppy Hill, even though it dipped into soap opera melodrama when it came to the relationship between the two kids.  But there was a charm to it and I enjoyed the movie.

The book wasn't set in Europe exactly, but in a Europe-esque fairy tale land.  So it has nothing to do with anything happening in the real world, much less any world wars.

See, the scarecrow is actually critical to the war plot (and the resolution of the war) but this is either not discussed or else mentioned so subtly that it really does seem to be a WTF plot point.

I absolutely love half of Howl and just tolerate the rest.  It is not on par with the other Miyazaki films.  I think it and Arrietty are roughly on the same level, which still makes them both very enjoyable movies for all ages.

I love the first Cars and am disappointed to find that it apparently falls into the A.V. Club's dislike pile.  It is a good movie, so I don't understand how it came to be labeled "bad."

Ah, yes.  The epic story of a stapler who dreamed of more than just stapling but is forced to battle his old friend the paperclip, who leads the downtrodden curly-metal-masses in a revolution against the stapler overlords in an attempt to become the primary object to securely fasten sheets of paper together.

@avclub-1beee9fdd7f132dc2f36c09ae265122c:disqus :  I feel like I've lost a few brain cells reading through that.  More power to them if those people want to squeeze a dozen different movies into a bizarre and convoluted timeline that they forced to make sense with atom-thin rationalizations.

With the addition of Planes, the whole Cars universe is now auto/aero-tic.

Also: stupid Disqus.

That's not quite accurate.  Maybe I'm the only one, but I like the Spiderman character.  I just have zero interest in Tobey Maguire playing him.  I hated his version of Spiderman and infinitely prefer most of the actors they chose for the reboot… I just wish the reboot was actually good.

So you're saying that degree of recycling is inversely proportionate to the number of things being recycled?

This movie feels like Disney is thumbing its nose at Travers, round 2.  If only she comes to Disneyland and sees the Wonder, she will understand and wholeheartedly agree to making Disney's version of her character!  If only she could just understand what he wants to do!  Why can't she understand?!  But don't fear, the…

Well, then maybe they shouldn't introduce the characters at all, just say "Brad Pitt's character is such and such".  If they're never going to use the name of the character again in the review, then it is pointless to introduce the character as "Gru" then revert to using "Carell" when you're talking about "Gru".

I wouldn't say I hate Despicable Me, but I was disappointed by it for the same reasons you were.  The minions' comedy felt too forced in many of their scenes, like "WE ARE CUTE, WE'RE SPEAKING GIBBERISH, DAMMIT, LAUGH AT US."  The character development for Gru was unbelievable, going from villain focused purely on his…

I'm one of those crazy people who pay little attention to actors, so this policy doesn't help me.  If they're describing the story of a movie, I'd prefer that they use the actual names of the characters in the movie so that it makes narrative sense, not confuse the issue by throwing in the names of the actors instead.