They weren't using force to coerce anyone into doing anything, though: they were using force to prevent others from using force to coerce others into doing something.

That movie was literally unwatchable. I had to force myself to stay with it until the end. It was the worst combination of idiotic and boring.

In the run-up to 'The Force Awakens,' there was an incident where a fan commented, “Not to be sexist, but’s really hard to tell that’s female armor for me” on a promotional image of Captain Phasma on the Star Wars FB page, to which the official Star Wars Facebook account replied, “It’s armor. On a woman. It doesn’t…

The male equivalent to female genital mutilation would be the removal of the entire head. Object to male circumcision all you want, but it's not mutilation.

Is i.slam the Muslim Turkish equivalent of will.i.am?

"Sorry if it came across that way."

Lower-class blue collar workers are vehemently opposed to any kind of socialism or social democracy and very strong supporters of capitalism and "the free market," even though they're the ones who are being the most heavily exploited and who are suffering the most at the hands of corporate capitalism.

A very pointedly insightful response to that speech by Cruz that I encountered earlier:

We really need to start taking the same interest in the rest of the world that we do in our own country. That's the only way we'll really start thinking of these places as actual societies and not just "far off places where terrible shit is always happening."

There's a fine line between condemning shitty media coverage / the way society teaches us to view the world and condemning people for being unaware of things / the way they view the world.

That's why I can never take Black Panther very seriously. Batman's ears work because they're long and pointy and prominent on top of his head. Black Panther's just make him look like Kitty Cat Man to me.

Or The Phantom.

Boring and lame though it was, I did kind of love the way they showed Luthor as a flesh-and-blood human being, albeit an evil genius: he bumps into Lois Lane while in the middle of brushing his teeth, and that scene where:

And isn't Ben Affleck kind of a big ol' liberal? I mean, obviously, actors are going to portray characters who have different personalities and political beliefs that they have, but … isn't Batman supposed to (sort of) be a hero in this movie? Unless the point of that scene was to show that Bruce/Bats has lost his…

Alan Moore's "Watchmen" is to superhero comics what "Goodfellas" is to "The Godfather": it's gritty - not "gritty" in the sense of "grimdark" but in the sense of "mundane rather than glamorous." Snyder's "Watchmen" misses that point. Snyder's "Watchmen" is the equivalent of "Scarface."

I'd be just like the Middle Ages with all those antipopes.

Really? I didn't notice anything of the sort. If anything, "Dune" feels like one of the few western works that treats ancient Arab/Muslim culture with the same respect that ancient Celtic or Greek or Norse cultures are given, rather than with the colonialist, xenophobic, Islamophobic disdain they usually receive.

With greenscreen being what it is these days, you wouldn't even have to build (physical) sets at all. That approach can work incredibly well (see: Agent Carter).

I thought that character was going to be superfluous too when I first heard about him, but then I saw William Hurt's performance, and it was all worth it.

Someone once mentioned that it's fun to imagine that the Peter Cushing 'Doctor Who' movie exists in the world of the show as a botched attempt by humans who witnessed a bit of the Doctor's exploits to make a movie about him, in the style of "A Match Made in Space" from "Back to the Future" or that silly TV show that J…