And I often love pedantry, so I get it.

Sure, they’re semi-fictional sci-fi versions of an extinct beast.

Yeah, it doesn’t feel good to discriminate against people due to their age, but also it’d feel nice to have elected officials whose policies I support who aren’t literally pushing 80.

The list of states I can never live in or even visit continues to grow. At this point, I wish these people just said what they obviously truly think: that trans people are disgusting, and conservatives wish they could outright criminalize being trans because it’s icky.

If vampires in Dracula, Twilight, Blade, True Blood, Buffy, or Anne Rice novels are all still understood as vampires, then yeah these are zombies. Whether or not the lore anchors its explanation in something “scientific” truly doesn’t matter. They’re still zombies.

Well, now that the evidence has laid bare that Tucker Carlsen is willing to lie on-air about things that he knows to be false, surely the rational viewers of his news program will stop listening to him!

It’s not the volume of material doing this, but I begrudgingly think he...sort of has a point. The original Star Wars movies really nailed a tone of mysticism and magic, with lots of rich but mostly unexplained world-building. The setting felt huge and alien and immersive, and that was compelling.

“Full interactivity is going to cost you.” Well, then it really is like stepping into a video game. Can’t wait to experience micro-transaction video game hell without looking at a screen.

Personally, I agree with you. But from the perspective of a gigantic corporation who wants to churn out more of the specific sausages people want, DS2 did great and presents no reason they should change course.

You personally didn’t like Strange 2, but as others have pointed out: it earned $955M and was well-received by a majority of critics. It was successful in all the ways a commercial film can be, thus objectively not “too weird and loopy” for a critical or mass audience.

I assume the point the showrunner is trying to make is exactly that: why does society have so much empathy, even a desire to celebrate violent and damaged men?

I think this show is good and well-made, but also completely superfluous. Like, in the abstract, it’s a top-tier zombie/dystopia show...but the field is so goddamn crowded. The sheer volume of dystopia media has cannibalized The Last of Us’ impact. The cast is great, it looks great, it’s well-written. But how many…

The first Blade is also excellent. They both are.

Honestly, I’m not sad. This concept was great, but the execution felt pretty toothless. Characters and plots that felt way safer and more broadly-drawn than the writing seemed to think they were.

Why can’t Disney-Pixar just go back to making maudlin animated family dramedies about inter-generational trauma? They tend to be pretty good, had a good thing going the last couple years.

What if it’s a service baby? Is there still a fee?

Provide one source that isn’t UncuckedAmericaNews or whatever that supports this claim.

They better not rope Cocaine Bear into it until the Pizza Rat solo film.

Whenever people discuss the Snyder movies, it’s like they’re describing movies that don’t actually exist. Man of Steel is dour and self-serious, but it’s not “monochromatic.” And Superman often saves people - on the oil rig, the schoolbus accident, random soldiers and civilians in the Smallville fight, and he risks…

It’s demonstrably false that there have been “no good high school movies” since Superbad, but I do think it meaningfully deconstructed the genre in a way that impacted what those kinds of movies are like now.