No amount of set dressing is going to save a film with poor acting (or no actors, for that matter).

Because it's one thing to disagree with a film review; it's another to try and discredit the reviewer's character, reputation and personality simply because you disagree with him.

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There weren't police reports.  Leasi Andrews filed allegations in March 2010 that Michael Fassbender had drunkenly roughed her up in July 2009.  There's a difference between that and the Chris Brown-Rihanna sadness, where we had documented photographic evidence of Rihanna's injuries extracted from a police report.

Also, I thought Hiro Protagonist's comment was terrible and the sort of thing more akin to other sites. It's quite cynical and very bitchy and doesn't seem to fit with the AV Club's grown up approach to film critique. Hiro Protagonist is, in summary, an asshole.

We should take what Dowd says with a dose of salt, but the reviews of a man who regularly showered the Twilight saga with Bs and B+s is obviously beyond dispute?

Unbreakable may be the best superhero film ever made, so I'm not quite sure what this qualifier is supposed to prove.

It's almost like taste is subjective or something.

Indeed, the only overly negative (58 on Metacritic) review except for:

DING DING DING

Understatement seems pretty undervalued in comedy, these days,

Y'know, like Smosh.

I don't get the all the hate, here.

Xinjiang takes offence to your denigration of their sparsely-populated desert.

Reich simply means "nation" in German.  Kaiserreich is the term for empire (or, more strictly speaking, emperordom), though it wasn't used by Imperial Germany (which was in fact, like the Weimar Republic, called the "Deutsches reich").

Heyerdahl has endorsed many a dodgy historical cause in his life, but "Odin came from Azerbaijan" is just the worst.

All the Nordic languages are mutually intelligible.

Margaret Kemble Gage?  If you say so.

Unfortunately, I couldn't even enjoy that aspect, as it seemed like just more of Bay's excessive eulogising of the military.

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