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I think there has been a turn of overall opinion against The Avengers over the past couple years, including among people who like Guardians of the Galaxy and/or Winter Soldier. The complaint is basically that it's too long spent on getting the gang together followed by too long spent on battling aliens. GotG is

I don't find Inside Llewyn Davis a slog at all, in large part because the soundtrack is just so, so good.

If we disqualify every movie that the people who made it say in the publicity tour is more important than it is, we're not gonna have many movies left.

I even like Lincoln but there's nothing it does that Selma doesn't do better.

Ah yes, the shiny happy colors of Agents of SHIELD (grey, dark grey), Gotham (grey, brown), and Arrow (black, dark green).

TALLER HAIR! TALLER!!

A Vinaissance man.

Room 237 isn't an insight into The Shining; it's an insight into confirmation bias and how people form and support world views. That's why I like it.

I was pleasantly surprised to see it given some love, so prevalent is its reputation as the lame-Oscar-bait-biopic its title implies. The Best Picture Oscar comment does seem a bit much, but I greatly enjoyed the specificity of delving just into the process of passing the amendment. It's like the best possible version

I hope her first two words can be heard on the recording, 'cause the comedic timing was incredible. I think it was fourth or fifth row, house right, for my brother and me.

I was at that show and it was a delight.

Yeah, really liking the art here. I'm not familiar with Rodriguez, but happy to learn I have some of his work to look forward to when I get to the Mark Waid era of Daredevil.

Probably not Sprint, but it's not unbelievable that whatever advertising agency they used would be aware of an alt comedy scene guy with his own three-season Comedy Central show. Plenty of comedy fans who aren't as good at comedy themselves as they think they are work in advertising.

I think it's totally consistent to think that getting really upset about Trevor Noah's old tweets is silly and also that Oswalt's ongoing crusade against ever criticizing any comedy for sexism/racism/etc. is weak.

I'd like to see the presidential complaint meetings become a regular thing. That at least felt like they were getting jokes out of the setting even if they were expressed in the standard sitcommy four-people-talking format.

This, and also, It's Always Sunny has multiple maniacs who are each varying degrees of terrible all bouncing off each other. Meanwhile two out of the only three characters Phil can ever interact with exist entirely as "nice normal person" foils. Carol has some craziness in her, but she's been mostly sidelined since

In addition to good appearances on Hollywood Handbook, Indoor Kids, etc., he "hosts" one of the best With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus episodes.

Reportedly, Hannibal Buress said this at the filming: "They say you roast the ones you love, but I don't like you at all, man. I'm just here because it's a real good opportunity for me. Actually, you should thank me for participating in this extremely transparent attempt to be more likable in the public eye. And I

That was my first thought as well, but since they have Kamala, Miles, AND Sam Alexander Nova, I think the group-of-vets*-mentor-new-recruits is going to be this team's defining hook (a la Geoff Johns JSA and several incarnations of the X-men), and I'm down with that.

I finally watched that Superman pitch last fall and man did I hate it. It's just constant "Character A is really Character B!!!!" twists, none of which have any impact if you don't already know who they are from the comics. Not that it matters, because they'll only be around for one scene before they're replaced with