No, it’s more respectful to not bend over backwards to make films that are legitimately bad be simply misunderstood. 

Doom Patrol was one of those shows that upon finishing it, I liked less and less whenever I reflected on it. Had a great cast, cool ideas, and nice production quality, but they waisted so much time on the characters bickering in ways that didn’t progress the story or highlight anything new about them. A lot of it felt…

I don’t know that you should ever feel you owe a creator an apology for not responding to what they did in the way they intended. He was clearly a talented guy in many of his films, but no matter his intent, his batman films were just not great.

I think it’s more respectful of a late filmmaker with an extensive…

He also directed the severely underrated Tigerland (not that his worth as a person depends on how good his films were, but that one brought me some joy).

Yeah, I am pretty tired of the case for it as objectivist. It doesn’t fit. IT’s clearly the work of someone who is aware of the objectivist mindset and doesn’t really agree with it. 

One thing people often misremember about the two movies is how human and intelligent they make Bob. If you’re not paying attention he’s just a sitcom bumbling dad. If you are, they actually do really interesting things with him (like how much he wants to support his wife by taking care of the kids in the second even…

I’m amazed they got away with a bunch of things in that movie, but that line is near the tops of the list. 

I’d stick up for Syndrome as a villain. Purposefully he’s a little campy, but he’s still by far the best iteration of entitled fanboy as villain (which has been done a lot of times sense). Plus Jason Lee’s line readings are fantastic

“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the sea comes the end of our fellowship in middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep for not all tears are an evil.”

I got a Garth Ennis notification for this?

Yeah, I second all this. This one hurts way more than some because I like his work and the virtuous heroes found within. I’ll be inconsolable if it turns out that Jonathan Hickman, Neil Gaiman, and Greg Rucka are also jerks.

Just google it. 

And by no means would I normalize it, it’s gross and pretty damning, but there is an attitude that every impropriety is exactly equal which I don’t quite buy. 

Seems likely. It doesn’t strike me as necesarily illegal just unethical and skeezy. But honestly twitter is not a great source on these things. I know a while back there was an uproar over Comic Writer/Artist Brandon Graham being abusive and upon digging into it, there’s very little beyond a party where he was drunk…

Sadly there are now accusations out about one of my favorite comics writers Warren Ellis as well. People really suck (assuming this stuff is true that is).

What’s sad to me isn’t that AV club has gone this way in isolation. It seems to be that thoughtful, reasoned commentary on pop-culture is going away. I won’t read the conservative rags, but all the progressive ones I used to like (this place, slashfilm, pop culture happy hour) have become predominantly built around…

Thank you for re-inventing the Question. I got a lot of entertainment out of the work you did there. 

Right, so he has experience with Shakespeare, but look at his output as a director apart from that. They range from bland (Thor) to awful (Artemis Fowl) with a lot of mediocrity in between (Jack Ryan, Murder on the Orient Express, etc.).

Kenneth Branagh is starring in Nolan flick but directing this, apparent, drivel. Maybe directing is not his niche?

This is what I cam here to say. As a film it’s lower tier pixar follow-up(though I probably prefer it to Finding Dory or Incredibles 2). But the message really spoke to me as it’s been my life experience (and I saw it in college).