Though I rag on most of AV Club’s video content, I’d just like those involved to know that I really appreciate these—more of this video content, please! Really fills the At the Movies void for me.

Your argument makes no sense. Unless every single movie is about some white guy joining another ethnic group’s organization, then the outrage hardly makes “everything” a problem. So what you’re really all shrieky about is people being angry about this specific trope? Ok what is your argument that the trope is okay? …

imma start calling triggered white men “white noise.”

The film exists as a vehicle for a white actor to take a lead role in a film about the Japanese Yakuza. Yes, he’s a caucasian character played by a caucasian actor, but his presence casts the Japanese as Others for him to appropriate and supersede. He even gets tattoos. It’s a power fantasy for the caucasian audience…

You sound like someone who thinks whitewashing is bad because the internet says it’s bad, but a movie with a white protagonist set in a foreign culture that isn’t based on a non-white character in the source material is totally okay. Heck, you sound like someone who thinks whitewashing isn’t that bad either.

RHCP,

I’ve thought that for a while. These videos always seem to be about 5 minutes long at the most, meaning they often come down to a couple sentences from each critic. They always seem like “here’s the short version - click here for the full discussion,” but there IS no full discussion! The “roundtable” articles we’ve…

The whole Kinjafication has been a disaster for the community. I don’t have a clue how well it’s worked for corprate; maybe it’s been fine. But this place is just uninviting now. It’s partially because the site seems to have a “let trolls be trolls, even if they’re out of the grays” policy. We watched all of Stranger…

Family Guy’s theme is the absolute worst. Though thankfully I stopped watching that one somewhere around season four or five.

I can’t knock the CEG theme. It may not be the perfect song qua song, but a theme song exists to set a tone and to provide a preview of what’s to come if you stick around long enough to watch the show. In both of those aspects, the CEG theme succeeds magnificently.

Perhaps it’s due to having heard it too many times but I can’t stand the American Dad theme anymore, despite still really liking the show.

No, because some interns are actually paid a stipend. Not every company is terrible, just most.

Four episodes in to its first season, The Next Generation wasn’t just mediocre, it was almost terrible. It took a while for the best Gene Roddenberry had to offer to learn how to walk, whereas The Orville is already taking several steps at a time.

What exactly do people want out of this show? Obviously it’s nowhere near being Star Trek level good, but TNG was even further away from being Star Trek level good in its first season. Most of the comedy misses rather than hits, but at this point I don’t care because The Orville is clearly a sci-fi drama, not a sci-fi…

Given that I saw a report today that platforms see a 60% drop in pageview after a pivot to video . . . no, these pivots are not based on any valid data.

This absolutely needed to be a video, and could not have been presented as text I could read in 1/3 of the time.

Jewish man thinks bad things that happened to Jews off limits, everything else fair game.

Yes he could. Look at all the utterly non-PC stuff that easily came out in the last 10 or so years on both film and TV. No-one stopped Tarantino from stuffing the N word everywhere even though it wasn’t needed.

This only makes me want to see this thing more.

To paraphrase Stephen King, “I’m going to make a movie where a child we have never met before is run over by a sentient steam roller and it will fucking rule, so bite me Gene Siskel.”