"They are all terrible date movies and all the women I went on dates with have terrible tastes in film."

I must have missed that scene in the last Detergent film when Shailene woodley turned towards the camera to extol the benefits of natural medicine for five minutes.

What black moviegoers are asking for is rather irrelevant when it's the only game in town.

No one's coming to take away your guns, friend. We're just sayin'.

First of all, counterpoint: Star Wars. Neither the cast nor the crew took it seriously, and no one could ever accuse Alec Guinness of respecting the material. Film production is a job, not a labour of love, and I think ambivalence to the material is probably the rule rather than the exception.

I actually really liked Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, notwithstanding the fact that he was nearly 30. From what I saw, the complaints about him were that he was too 'cool' to be Peter Parker. Honestly, the sort of gee-whillikers nerd portrayed by Tobey Maguire would just seem ludicrously dated nowadays, and it's…

You do realise that she still actually had to work for the film, right? We're all grateful to get a job, but that doesn't mean we can't have misgivings about it later. And nor would you excoriate someone for not criticising their employer while they were still employed; that's a no-brainer.

But people have in fact attacked the new Ghostbusters film for having a female cast, whereas you're positing a hypothetical straw-man of Tumblr (the whole website, no less) attacking Jesse for giving a bad review to a film with black people in it.

I think the amnesia is just a cheap means of avoiding continuity lockout, by having Lil' Antichrist learn about his past alongside the viewers.

What exactly is a review if not a recap with an opinion attached?

I wouldn't be interested even if she was, but thanks for assuming that men only support gender equality because of ulterior sexual motives. Really painting a positive picture of your own gender, here.

If you're going to exclude everyone who initially supported the Iraq War and anti-drugs policy, then you may as well establish your own party on an Arctic ice floe.

Thank God you seized the moral high ground by describing a woman who dares to express an opinion as "shrewish", eh?

It's your right not to like a book, and if you didn't like what little you read and decided not to read further, that's no problem. But you're not simply saying you disliked Ender's Game (or rather, what you actually read of it); you're making enormous accusations about a book you never finished. It's not enough to…

Ender wasn't playing a game; he was enrolled in a military simulation explicitly intended to train him for strategic warfare. You can play paint-ball with your friends, and you can play paint-ball in the Army, and only one of those is intended for real-life application.

I think there's a pretty obvious difference between, say, Alfred Molina playing an extraterrestrial and Alfred Molina playing a completely different ethnicity. For one thing, he's not denying any alien actors the chance to have his role, whereas Hollywood's insistence on not just whitewashing roles in general but even…

My understanding is that 'Hispanics' are considered non-white in the US context, but in the European context, they're just 'white'.

I never said any such thing. But I don't think you can make a tenable argument about a book that you semi-flipped through and then read some articles about. If you haven't read the book, it's impossible to have any actual context for discussion.

I would suggest reading rather than reading up on Ender's Game before making sweeping accusations of genocide apologism.

I wouldn't say so. Sure, punk is probably a subjective label, but there are characteristics of action-adventure (it's full of action and adventure) and chick lit (literature manufactured for and marketed to women) that make those useful, if reductive, labels.