I’m very excited for Killers of the Flower Moon. Less excited for a month of the AVClub doing the guy in the yellow suit behind the tree meme towards every piece of press where someone even obliquely asks about the state of popular film.

I mean, the premise “I’ve been sent to aid in the destruction of a dangerous secret, and oh no it turns out it’s a cute child and I’ve taken it upon myself to protect it” immediately brings to mind The Mandalorian and Star Wars.

Those who don’t follow Hollywood closely may find the effusive praise surprising.

For a while I’ve been thinking “the left should retake ‘woke;’ it’s supposed to mean intelligent and aware.’” Stern’s comment illustrates just how cool and stable that tack sounds.

The thing was his post thanked his second wife for giving him a healthy child; he did have a child with his first wife, but the birth and first couple years were filled with health scares and hospital stays. So I think people were deciding how much work that “healthy” was doing in that context.

you keep warping “people disliked it for sexist reasons” into “everybody who disliked it was sexist,” and it’s telling.

Thing is, a lot of people were being reactionary sexists about it, review bombing and such without even seeing it. We all dislike stuff for legitimate reasons which other people dislike for spurious ones. It’s just interesting that, seven years later, people are still fixated on justifying their opinion rather than…

Man, people can’t let go of this movie. Every time I visit my brother in-law he has a new YouTube video to show me about how it was definitely bad and how it has nothing to do with it being the lady ghostbusters movie.

It also impresses me to realize he’s kinda made it his brand. Is it crap if it’s consistent? (Wiggles eyebrows)

Oh man it’s gonna blow your mind once you shift your focus to…all media and the very concept of the storytelling tradition

“Tyrannis (who sports an olive clasp on his tunic)” has got to be one of the more/most puzzlingly-included character details I’ve seen grace a review. I actually command-f’ed “olive” because I thought there was some olive significance I was missing.

Atlantis adheres to Bikini Bottom rules

Every day visiting the AVClub is like opening the Dead Dove: Do Not Eat bag, but the dissonance between the headline implying the video’s faked and the disdain towards people expressing the same opinion confuses the heck outta me. Like there are so many layers of snark and irony slapped on top of one another I have…

You know that’s not how the electoral system works.

I haven’t either, but it must *not* be common knowledge; even if Luke was hidden away on Tatooine and never overheard anything, he was with the rebels long enough that someone would have said “oh, shit you’re Vader’s kid” the moment he said his dad Anakin was a famous pilot.

Barsanti is a smirking troll through and through. That said, it’s interesting what you say about biases, as I’ve noticed Ahsoka reviews particularly seem split down a bias line: either you’re familiar with this story and these characters and like the show, or you’re not and you don’t. For example, ign gave this ep an…

Yeah well I need eight episodes of wildly varying length to walk me through it.

Honestly, it seems like he does, even in that quote. My impression was that yoda always was that backwards-talking weirdo; he just dialed it up to 11 to throw Luke off.

Frankly I love this new era of Star Wars and I’m looking forward to the upcoming Filoni projects This is why Lightsabers Don’t Extend Infinitely, as well as Why It’s Sometimes Ok and Even Necessary to Kiss Your Sister.

I find this sort of flux-capacitor-esque non-answer to be infinitely more imaginative, creatively satisfying, and entertaining than someone spending years in the lab cooking up wookipedia-friendly worldbuilding