"Too dark" was very literally a major problem with the film.

Incidentally, "legendary Aquaman artist" is the industry's most witheringly backhanded compliment.

And D'Souza only makes documentaries in the sense that professional wrestling is an action movie. It's not a very good one in any event, and it really only counts if you're being pretty generous with the terminology.

Speaking of spycraft, while I liked the moment, the "spies' goodbye" thing is sort of ridiculous from any practical standpoint. If they had each given Huntingbird a high-five and a pat on the ass, it would have been less conspicuous then buying them six drinks and having them toast each corner of the room…

Yeah, there's something that seems kinda…insecure, I guess? about the way most of Christian cinema is put together. They're mimicking the structure of evidence-based arguments, which ultimately stacks the deck pretty heavily against faith.

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Coulson has a side plot for like two episodes — totaling maaaaaaaaaybe about six minutes of screen time — that doesn't go anywhere or make any sense if you didn't see Avengers 2.

Despite the fact that they should theoretically be super-invested in what's going on, none of the A-list Inhumans have appeared in S.H.I.E.L.D., and considering they're like a C-list group already, that's saying something. It's also pretty clearly deliberate. The show might get a tossed-off, plot-irrelevant mention…

I have an unabridged, 8 volume set of the 1,001 Nights that I picked up from a used book store five years ago. I had to cut the pages of volume 7 and 8 apart with a razor because the set was poorly bound like 100 years ago and apparently no one had ever made it that far in a century or so.

Versailles or "Ver-SALES" Kentucky concurs.

"Selling out" has been tossed around so frequently and so relentlessly for so many years that it's reached the point of near meaninglessness. It can be everything from "he did something primarily for the money" — which covers pretty much every human who has ever held a job — to "she did something I don't like" —…

This was pointed out in the reviews, but Ra's was never all that well-motivated. He wanted revenge for Sara, but got over that early, and then he wanted Oliver as his successor for…reasons. That were also kinda a smokescreen to get at Damien. The League of Assassins itself has no real purpose in this universe,…

This. Right here.

The Smiths not being in there just seems ridiculous. Look, I know Morrissey's an asshole. It's funny to fuck with him. But seriously.

In theory, I agree with much of that, but the truth is that America has spent the last 30 years systematically eliminating most of those businesses that exist on the margins. The businesses that would be legitimately threatened with closure by a minimum wage hike are such a statistically tiny percent of the American…

Which is just a ridiculous dichotomy. Their associates have no defining personality traits beyond "lazy, entitled, and largely interchangeable" and Howard is, well, Howard. If that's truly the intended conflict, I have no idea which side I'm supposed to be on or why anyone thinks I'd be even remotely invested in it.

Indeed, if McD could make money charging $10 for a Big Mac, they'd already be doing that. They didn't sit down and calculate what they wanted to charge to make exactly $1.50 profit on each value meal because they decided that was enough. Pricing is based on what will make them the most total money.

Romeo and Juliet also skews young the way Lear skews older. How much two kids whose love is OMG THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVA or an old man bitching at the kids to get off the royal lawn speaks to you can depend a lot on where you are in life, as this comment board seems to make clear.

MacBeth is a straight horror story, and as a fan of that genre at its pulpiest, I also love the play. I watch some version of it every Halloween.

Some of what Trump has said has seemed calculated for effect — anything religious comes to mind — but he also has piss-poor impulse control and has staunchly refused to admit the smallest amount of doubt or fault regarding anything he's ever said.

I feel like the Jason storyline is almost certainly building toward the two firms asking him to investigate opposite ends of the same case. This could be good or bad, depending on how it's handled, but he needs to be a bit more developed for that to have any real stakes.