In a year not a single person will care about the last few months of her time in the Senate

Not sure what a rightwing covid denier is doing lurking around the AV Club, but here:

This is absolutely false and should be deleted by the moderators. Excess deaths is the only meaningful metric given the incomplete availability of tests and understanding of the sequelae of infection, and it’s not even in debate among serious mortality experts — COVID-19 caused more deaths than the official counts…

Goddammit, you made me click on a Daily Mail link out of curiosity. The poster is a thing of bizarre beauty.

The poster for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 is so badly photoshopped it looks more like ameteur fanart than an official poster released by a studio.

Every time I see the name “Ruby Gillman,” I momentarily see “Rudy Giuliani.”

Pretty much. There’s a reason they just got handed an order to do follow-ups to Inside Out and Toy Story. Theyre not gonna be original, but theyre gonna make a lot more than Elemental. 

I honestly didn’t think there were all that many trailers for it, tbh. It wasn’t even really on my radar relative to say Spiderverse or Mario in terms of just saturation, and I say that as someone who still has linear cable.

And if you want formula, that’s what sequels are for.  I’d be perfectly happy with an Inside/Out sequel (which of course is in the works).  But for other things, I wish they’d tell other stories.  I thought Soul was a missed opportunity to tell a straight story.  No whiz bang wondery or world building or magical…

This one’s easy: The trailers sold the film as a sweet romance, opposites attract.

I don’t know a single kid under the age of 10 who wants to see a sweet romance, animated or not.

The first thing I said when the trailer came out was that it looked like the character models were just an Inside Out/Soul mishmash. Very uninspired.

also very easy to ‘get’ concepts. it’s like they start with the metaphor and work backwards now. 

No consideration whatsoever for the simple explanation that the movie looked bad? Every trailer and ad did absolutely nothing to sell me, I was left thinking “I saw this movie already, it was called Zootopia and it was way more charming than the really trite scenes you apparently thought were the most enticing parts…

I think the problem is character design. The earlier Pixar films, while having less technology at their disposal in terms of lighting and shading effects, had simple but effective characters. Monsters Inc is a fine example of strong design. Then every other animation studio caught up and everyone is using the same…

I think it’s simpler: it’s ugly. It doesn’t look like Pixar; it looks like an Inside Out knockoff from the $5 Walmart video bin.

Lightyear was also ugly, as it happens. Was there a big change in Pixar’s art direction just before that?

There’s one more factor to take into consideration—the price of seeing a movie in a theater. Ticket prices are subject to inflation like everything else in the economy, and when you’re bringing the whole family along, that adds up quickly. Throw in the cost of popcorn and drinks, maybe parking too, and it becomes a…

i know a lot of people think the main reason is ‘everyone was trained to watch pixar movies on disney+’ but i don’t think it’s that.

You know that old joke about the fat lazy couch potato criticizing athletes who are infinitely more in shape then they could ever be? That’s you.

Whether he’s a cheater or not, the Mills woman sounds unbelievably awful. Blame the dude who lied to you; don’t pick on his pregnant girlfriend who almost certainly didn’t know you existed. I’ll never understand women who start screaming at other women in this scenario.

“You can’t possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely. Look at the success of France with their stupid … you know, off for August, blah blah blah. That’s not a very thriving country. Should America go down the drain because people don’t want to go back to work?”