This is just the scariest and most depressing shit ever. There are exactly two possibilities: either the problem isn't as endemic as we're being led to believe, or it is and literally everyone in Hollywood is ignoring it; including all the supposed 'good guys'. Where's the noise about it from the big stars? Why aren't…

No fucker is going to be happy with any adaptation of the Dark Tower. They can't make it as written (it's too fucking weird) and they can't change it and piss off the core fans. This will be like the fuckup with the Dark Materials movies, times 1000.

>Rumors—with its stark black-and-white image of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks

Ah yeah, we're talking back in the day, Basic Instinct/Bound Tripplehorn/Gershon, not Criminal Minds/on her knees in front of Matthew McConaughey sucking off a chicken drumstick Tripplehorn/Gershon.

She's the one who's sort of a cross between Jeanne Tripplehorn and Gina Gershon but British.

Surely it's possible for these films to have an intricately designed structural relationship to the original trilogy, and still be shit?

I seem to remember AV Club giving Rocky's first album a pretty glowing review if that helps? They were right as well, it's brilliant.

Agreed about Hannibal. His effectiveness in Lambs is all about the context in which he's presented. The taut, caged evil thing. As soon as he gets out, he's just a pretentious version of any other movie psycho.

See this is the thing about Star Wars: there really isn't a reason for negativity. The only reason we're conditioned to expect bad things is that he made such a fuckerydoo of the last 3. It shouldn't actually be that hard to make a decent Star Wars film (and thanks to the prequels we have a lot of data on what people…

You sissy marys!

I think the issue is that most of these things aren't 'sit'coms any more. They're character comedies with shit characters (haven't seen 'Mom' so not commenting directly on that). Each character has one trait which the other characters make fun of, back and forth, forever. In good sitcoms, the comedy actually comes…

The first series of Blackadder is dreadful, though :) Again, I'm not saying a live audience is necessary, just that it's ridiculous to say you can't make a good sitcom if you have one.

That's a silly thing to say. Apart from the fact that writing off an entire genre of anything never makes sense, we'd have to ignore Blackadder, Father Ted, Only Fools And Horses, The IT Crowd and a pile of other British stuff (to say nothing of the other obviously good American stuff other people have mentioned.)…

But there were no racists statements or criticisms of Idris Elba in my post. Surely you can see why I'm confused?

I think you looked at the words I wrote and imagined different ones in your head.

What is it you think I'm humourlessly progressing towards and why do you think I'm doing it moronically?

Yeah, "butthurt" is the other one. What you're doing is putting on a t-shirt that says "I got my worldview from teenagers on internet message boards. Please don't respect me."

Psssst: only idiots who haven't thought things through properly say "SJW".

It's kind of an automated process. Every now and then someone will suggest it and "the most oppressed people in this country are straight white men" type retards will go crazy at the mere suggestion. Then it's like it's *a thing*. See also: Idris Elba as James Bond.

The point is that it's possible to acknowledge that the killing of 250,000 people may have saved 10,000,000 without seeing it as a cause for celebration. It's still the killing of 250,000 people.