That’s not so, they said he had Aspergers in the first episode, and it was pretty clear in later episodes that they knew he was on the spectrum.

Sometimes I just want to pinch your cheeks, you adorable little social justice munchkin.

Let’s both pitch in a few bucks. 

But there’s no overarching body to deal with this. It’s all based on individuals putting up their own money to fund a movie. If your choice is between helping fund a movie about a trans person starring an unknown lead actor, or the next Scarlett Johannsen movie, you’re going to pick the Johannsen movie every time.…

This is a good point. I think the filmmakers decide it would detract from the scene. There’s no reason why a character can’t just have Parkinson’sor be in a wheelchair without anyone needing to acknowledge it, but I think people have this idea it would be distracting or something. You start to see it done more…

Does anyone really want to watch a movie carried by Shuri?

I think the better point is that movies are very, very expensive and the people putting the money up want people to go to them. Which means casting someone people know so they buy tickets. The option is making a very low budget movie with a quadriplegic actor no one has heard of, in order to hedge your bets, or…

Outrage is a viral phenomenon. How its meted out is not based on reason or any coherent system, its a trend that runs away with itself just like the ice bucket challenge or Kony 2012. It’s been public knowledge for 10 years that Mark Whalberg was involved in actual, literal violent hate crimes when he was younger, and…

I think the error is in thinking that art is supposed to be a form of supporting a community or a means of uplifting specific individuals. If the performance is tasteful and well done then I don’t see the crime.  

You just need to see a guy like Reid McCarter use a term like “scalping” to be reminded the AVClub’s woke-washing is a total grift and cynical marketing strategy. 

I feel they had this show conceptually all wrong. They should have focused the show around Ben Schwartz’s character, a washed up PR guy desperately trying to put a positive spin on a disaster of a space program, as those are by far the most entertaining scenes. The fact is they have no idea what Carrell’s character…

But he’s innocent so...

You’re a documentary filmmaker who has apparently done zero inquiry into the issues with Allen’s past. Go listen to what the other kids are saying, might open your eyes. 

I have this argument with my friends all the time. They refuse to believe that movies are shot to be seen on the big screen, not the television, and so they offer a different experience. Revenant is a good example - watching on TV its just not the same movie, at all. 

Yeah but they obviously plan to bring her back. I’m 100% sure the end credits scene will show Captain America returning the soul stone and her coming back to life. 

Phase 4 seems rather unfocused - lots of new characters and stories but nothing to cohesively bind them. And they’ve lost two of the biggest heroes who started the whole thing, as well as Black Panther which was an insane box office draw and dare I say cultural event. It wouldn’t surprise me if the box office starts…

I like the idea of thousands of people lending each other The Art of the Deal to make their own livetweet stream. 

I’m a Hemingway fan but I found The Old Man and the Sea sort of condescending to poor Cubans. The way they talk seems so simple, like they have brain damage. Good story though. 

Fight Club is probably the best poorly written book I’ve ever read. Palahniuk is a terrible writer but Fight Club actually has a lot to say about toxic masculinity and the nihilism created by consumerist society.  

Here’s the thing - we haven’t all become sniveling neo-Marixsts who whine about every rich person we see.