I don’t think I have to be “physically impaired” to be seriously uncomfortable from having been crammed into an airplane seat for hours, and the chance to change position is a massive relief.

“‘What do you want from me, Kristen Stewart,’ one shy young fan blurted resentfully.”

A police officer is not the ideal symbol here, though.

“The 1990s gave us Jack Nicholson, a relic of decades past who committed Adbusters-like crimes such as making an art gallery very scary and twisted”

Nicholson’s Joker was in the 80s. The Joker of the 90s was Mark Hamill.

And the iconic Joker of recent years was Cameron Monaghan, not Jared Leto.

Oh no! You’re firing me from a job ... that ... you’ve already been refusing to pay me for? You’re not letting me work for you for free any more? Whatever will I do?

“I’d rather you bring attention to the Catagory 5 Hurricane”

Noooo!!!! Don’t remind him about the hurricane!

“Yet even its central tenants and thinkers”

“It’s like saying a Rodin uses red and a Picasso uses red so they’re the same style of painting”

Rodin was a sculptor, not a painter, and did not use red at all.

I saw it on its initial release, on a Cinerama screen in Scottsdale AZ, which according to this page — https://www.in70mm.com/library/engagements/film/_number/2001_in_70mm/engagements/index.htm — means I must have seen it on May 29th, 1968, which would mean I was just barely four years old.

I’m not saying your title commits a pragmatic contradiction. But your title commits a pragmatic contradiction.

I’m not saying your title commits a pragmatic contradiction. But your title commits a pragmatic contradiction.

Okay, I’ll bite. Why can’t movie reviews be objective?

If your answer is that aesthetic value per se is subjective, I’ll point to Cavell’s rejoinder:

“A: He plays beautifully doesn’t he?
B: ... How can you say that? There was no line, no structure, no idea what the music was about. He’s simply an impressive colorist.

Now,…

“with a blood-red sun peaking over the horizon”

The people who complain that a black Ariel is not true to the original Andersen story never seem to complain that Disney’s Aladdin isn’t Chinese, even though he is in fact described as Chinese (despite the obviously Arabic name “Ala’-ad-Din”) in the original story:

More mixed feelings about the 4th of July? See “The Dual Legacy of the Declaration of Independence”:

“The long term trend in higher education has been one of a shrinking number of full-time positions and an ever-growing number of adjunct positions.”

Maybe this will help:

A person being raped is not “having sex,” so the claim that they “had sex” should not be included on the list of what the two parties have agreed on.

“They’re all pretty much the same, aren’t they?”

Being an atrocious speller doesn’t mean he’s an idiot. I know some brilliant Ivy League PhDs who are atrocious spellers. (Granted, I suspect they’re undiagnosed dyslexics. But Trump might be as well.)

Dear god, I would love to live in NYC.