I looked that up and ended up reading about the rest of her books and they all sound so totally different, specifically in getting away from the tone and narrative style, the two things I particularly dislike about Tipping the Velvet, that I definitely will give her other stuff a chance.

I finished reading that not even two weeks ago and thought it was great throughout.

It's been a good few years since I've read it but what was so subtle about the book?

Are Sarah Waters later books considerably better than Tipping The Velvet? I've heard a lot of good stuff about her, and people I know are raving about Fingersmith having read it after seeing The Handmaiden, but this is incredibly flat. First novels shouldn't be much of a sign of quality but there isn't much in it (so…

He wanted to be killed off in Return of the Jedi and clearly sandbagged his performance because they kept him alive, so his death was probably a more important part of the contract than how much money he was going to get paid.

Both main events - both co-main events? - were two of the most fun fights I've seen all year. I don't know what they do next with Demetrious Johnson because he's cleared out that division and then some but Thug Rose proved that Joanna Jedrzejczyk hasn't done the same yet.

If you can't see a connection between the most embarrassing character getting his finally getting his dick hard after years of trying and him being serenaded in the most embarrassing way possible, then maybe you need a lecture. Hopefully Chris Nolan can set up two ferries to explain the concept of dramaturgy to you in…

I do think he was making a point and enjoyed making it too, but I don't think that's a bad thing nor a sign of incoherency; if Paul Verhoeven and Harmony Korine have made careers out of having their cake and eating it then so can he. I don't think he had a choice when it came to the Rorschach stuff because Watchmen…

And yet Katie - and plenty of others around here - didn't get it. Maybe they needed Snyder to stop the movie and explain the concept to them like Christopher Nolan had to do with The Dark Knight.

Why be so focused on a hostile foreign power? Reagan was hostile to Americans from the start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Non-violent resistance is considered the most effective tactic because it barely does anything.

That's an oxymoron. Either they like archetypal stories or they like unexpected themes but one counteracts the other. I don't disagree that they like archetypal stories and characters they know and love because nothing else makes any money - horror and animation are special attractions so don't really count. As for…

Not especially. If a culture critic can't figure out such an obvious movie, then they aren't much of a critic at all.

There's no such thing as meaningless art. Star Wars is proof of it, specifically in how it fits in with the rest of modern cinema, because it demonstrates how clear it is that contemporary audiences are terrified of engaging with anything that they don't already know, and how easily that can be milked by corporations.

Also, he's been popular entirely by portraying himself as a villain. His biggest claim to fame is a TV show where he fires people, and it was watched by millions every week. After that's been lapped up, what else can you do?

"These guys will buy anything that says Star Wars on it."

If Katie can't figure out scenes like Nightowl and Silk Spectre going out and intentionally getting mugged so they can assault them, in an alley that has a sign saying something like Nixon: Doing What's Right! outside of it, then there really is no hope for this website.

People are expecting there to be some kind of smoking gun that firmly puts the blame for this on another country but it's pretty much guaranteed to be because he isn't as rich as he says he is.

That's the villains from a bad, fictional story you're thinking of.

I'm glad this is going in Hollywood Studios in Florida because that place was dead when I was there last but reading about how it's going to replace some of Frontierland in California is pretty grim. It makes sense, I suppose, because kids don't want to be cowboys anymore but space taking over the wild west is what…