I’ll be honest here and say I don’t care about the X-Men and mutants in general. That they’re stuck at FOX allowed Marvel to explore and show off the characters of theirs I truly enjoy. F4 being at FOX also keeps Marvel from relying on the Skrulls, whom have been used in their biggest and worst cop out plot twists for…

Not until they’re all rebranded as inhumans, cause Marvel and Disney are petchulant 5 year olds.....Oh wait its the same company that thought One More Day/Brand New Day were amazing spectacular ideas cause a 40+ year old Peter Parker still needs to act like he’s 20......

updated: it’s Infinite.

Does that mean Trump isn’t real? Please, please, please.

Britain has a long and noble tradition of pants-down beatings, rape, and other delightful boarding school activities. It may be different now, but the fictional tradition Rowling drew upon (going all the way back to Tom Brown’s Schooldays, if not earlier) glossed over some pretty dire shit.

My granny was sent to boarding school by her parents and she never got over it. She was so bitter about it, and she resented them her whole life, said they only sent her away so they could go off travelling.

Counterpoint: It’s a drafty, leaky building full of ghosts and monsters where an actual war breaks out, professors bully students and other students receive obvious preferential treatment.

American comics lied too. Being bitten by a spider isn’t going to give you powers. However, it’s going to give a massive hospital bill. Don’t even get me started about what happens when you get exposed to radiation. Any radiation. No one is hulking out....

Right? The only other boarding school mentioned in the series was St. Brutus’ Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys which sure seems like it was J.K. Rowling poking a bit of fun at the stereotype of how terrible boarding schools are.

Anime also lied. Japanese high schools are not populated with emo giant robot pilots, ninja schoolgirl assassins or magical girls with talking animals. They also don’t you just walk up on the roof anytime you want.

Counterpoint: Swinton (who may or may not be real, we may never know the truth) is the one who mentioned a fictional school in the discussion of reality so shit that ain’t real is fair game.

They show good movies, they bring food and booze to your seat while you watch, and they will throw talkers and texters out on their asses with no mercy. What’s not to love?

The one in Brooklyn opened a few weeks ago and I’ve already been twice. Never want to see another movie anywhere else. Reserved seating, ninja-like waiters to bring you booze, and a strict no talking/texting policy that they enforce.

I saw the Trailer for Valerian while on acid last Friday night, and it looks phenomenal!

Whaaaat? No. No. Whaaaaaat? No!!!! NO.

This looks like the perfect type of movie to accompany a basket of fried pickles at an Alamo Drafthouse.

Why are you so committed to hating this movie you’ve never seen? It’s sort of baffling, no one else is reacting this way. If you saw it and liked it, would you be able to admit it?

Also the current seventy-plus-year-period of enormous-war-less-ness is an incredible anomaly, historically. Humanity has never gone this long without an enormous, species enveloping war. We’re probably due.

By “old” I mean “is widely mentioned in 60s and 70s anthropology books” not “dug up with the Rosetta stone”.

But not really;