Would love it if it turns out that this entire sequel series is really just what Klaus (the freeport employee who gives the tour in Tenets) daydreams after watching Frasier reruns.

You’re not the only one! The first one’s mostly good, but on rewatch it’s tone is all over the place and the pacing and plot are, well, also all over the place.

And while Tron: Legacy isn’t perfect... it’s still one of the most underrated and unfairly treated sci-fi films of the last 25 years? Like, young Jeff Bridges…

No.

Being unable to separate art from artist isn’t a lack of intellectual maturity. No one’s more mature or better because they can.

Imagine a celebrity brutally assaulted and/or killed your closest relative or friend. And for the sake of argument, you have no doubt they did it. Would you still be able to separate art…

I know Hollywood and PR folks have been helping stars manage their images and sweep their dirty laundry under the rugs and get enough people to either not care or to not be aware of it, but it’s breathtaking to see how fully he went from “Whoa, maybe this guy’s not well” to “He’s a powerful manipulative sociopath” to…

Me:

Honestly, I don’t have a problem with them being at the center of an Indiana Jones movie. In fact, it’s a nice, unexpected shift from the previous three films. The problem is that the creatures and their abilities feel wholly disconnected from the movie around them. Their skulls control minds? Why? One was stolen? By…

I honestly prefer “Fight” within the context of the scene. I like that her final statement of that speech was a call to arms against the Empire, not flipping them the metaphorical bird.

You’ll be overwhelmed by the tidal wave of stuff to do down below, and out beyond, the Great Sky Island. I promise.

Interestingly (or not, since I’ve played 100s of hours of BOTW already) I cleared the Great Sky Island and reached the ground in maybe 3 hours give or take? Contrast that to BOTW, where it took me a good…

But I sure as heck can ignore him! Ha-cha-cha-cha-cha!

I’ll have no “Saddlesore Galactica” slander!

Look, yeah, it was a definite turning point in the show... full of them... over several decades. The show’s been on long enough to have a lot of turning points, and with a big enough fanbase, you’ll have lots who loved ‘em and lots who hated ‘em. I loved this one.

Yes, it…

I ... can you ... not watch them?

OK. If your job’s a film critic, you’ll have to, I assume.

I also don’t think “potentially lots of bad games” necessarily means “lots of great ones would have happened had this one not made so much money”?

Indeed, I suspect some new one will be great, and we all for the most part can…

The headline’s use of “ran for the hills” sure is a weird metaphor for “someone made the difficult decision to attend to their personal and family issues in the middle of a high-profile TV show they were part of”

Hot take: the Wii U was, and is, amazing—and would have been a hit if Nintendo hadn’t bungled its marketing and naming.

1000% relevant (though now a bit out of date):

If you’re making the deep-cut pun I think you are, my hat’s off to you.

It’s perfectly fine. And, yeah, for those who feel it sounds weird, over time, they’ll get used to it.

Case in point: I’m old enough to remember back when the title for Star Wars: Episode I was announced, and could not wrap my ears/head around “The Phantom Menace.” Like, at all. Then, a few years later, it sounded…

1. They never needed a TV show.
2. No one ever needed to watch it.

This all reminds me of when SNL did what I feel safe in saying is an extremely cursed sketch about the Bashir interview. It had guest host Anthony Edwards in drag as Diana (!?!), and (white Caucasian) cast member Mark McKinney as Bashir(!???!!!!). And sadly, the entire sketch was based around how CrAzY DiAnA wAs…

Tired: Garfield movie
Wired: Garfield Minus Garfield movie
Inspired: Gramfel Cycle 12-part prestige TV event

“Well, Riven is getting a remake and we gotta write about it. Should we just share the remake’s details?”

“Nah, we gotta juice it up. Drive those clicks.”

“How about a click-bait-y conceit where the headline teases with a confusing ‘it’s the best and the worst’ message, and then we really go for it in the article itself…