Because it changes the tone of the line from serious to a joke -- like, they couldn’t even be bothered to finish the sentence, just putting it ‘etc.’ It’s like including “yadda yadda yadda.”

Truly, you have exposed the flaws in my formalistic approach to kinja. I must look beyond the text of a single comment to determine how badly you whiffed on a joke.  

some dude who whines about the evils of “diversity” in movies

Here’s you. Here’s the joke. Here is you not getting the joke.

whoosh

Yep. The drop in quality since they stopped hewing to the source material has been dramatic—not because it would be impossible to improve on GRRM’s novels, by any means, but because the showrunners haven’t even tried to match Martin’s nuance or ambition, settling for loud, empty spectacle and inane plot twists like…

To Spectre’s credit, it made the Khan reveal in Star Trek: Into Darkness seem marginally less stupid.

I remember hearing about that. IIRC, the original concept was the Sheriff investigating a series of murders that leads him straight to Robin Hood, and then eventually having to team up with him in search of the real killer or something.

This review is about the movie like Whiplash is about jazz.

You need to watch the Jazz movies Hollywood isn’t making.

[Expert watches movie about thing they are expert about. Finds that movie is about broader ideas and themes rather than simply the minutiae of their field. No one but them is surprised.]

“The obsession with Buddy Rich is really just a symptom of a larger problem in Whiplash, which is that it’s not really a movie about jazz. The film simply uses jazz as a vehicle to tell a story about ambition and the willingness to do what it takes to be great.”

Then....it’s not really a problem? If the movie is not…

Whiplash sucks all the joy out of jazz and makes it seem like something emotionally exhausting that makes your hands bleed.

Well no shit a photo-realistic, non stylized version of the Lion King is going to look different from the hand-drawn animated one. Another big difference is that Simba will look like a real cat in this one.  This is hardly the biggest problem with these live-action remakes.

Politically Incorrect premiered 3 years before The Daily Show; in fact, TDS was created as a replacement for PI.

Hey look, I was right!

Also, if this doesn’t make him the next James Bond, what in God’s name will?

Every time there’s an Avatar-related newswire, there’s a whole bunch of people making passionate speeches about “why is it a thing” and “that first movie wasn’t really memorable, was it”. And I’m not arguing. I’m just surprised that people keep on talking about it like it’s their first time. We’ve been there. It’s…

Seems pretty down to Earth in this interview.

***on Halloween***