Punch Drunk Love was more than enough reason for me to think he should’ve dumped his stupid comedy schtick and become a serious actor, and that was in 2002.

If you mean “internally realistic,” agreed. MCU films follow superhero rules, and in that regard are typically internally consistent. But if you tell me you’re fine with your heroes winning thanks to a deus ex machina, well, your standards are different from mine.

A good list, but you missed the biggest turd of all: Endgame. Morose, boring, whiny and lacking in action or fun, it also features the dumbest deus ex machina in recent memory (lucky rat), which serves to completely deprive our heroes of any agency of their win, and then doubles-down by having Ironman solve time…

Meditations on man's place in the infinite, plus zombie space monkeys. Something for everyone.

Moon pirates in 1970s style lunar rovers. Moon pirates.
(This is an argument for it being both great and awful.)

First have her say “Just what I wanted!” when she sees the bike. Now you can infer that she asked for it, debated buying one, wanted one, etc. Second, you show her on a video call with her sister saying “That thing will be a clothesrack in a month.” Now you’ve got a reason for her to be vlogging this experience. Make…

The whole commercial is super awkward. They could have worked in something like how her schedule makes going to the gym difficult, so now she can take care of herself at home, really anything that gives her some kind of agency. Then they put the misogynistic cherry on top by revealing she did it more for him than for…

The ad was wrong on so many levels!

Sorry, but no. I’m a professional writer and marketer (and former English teacher) and it’s my job to analyze things like advertisements for consumer penetration. The first time I saw this ad while watching TV, before any articles were written, it struck me as not achieving the message the makers were trying for.…

I work in Marketing—you don’t casually throw a kid into something.

There’s a very deliberate reason why the commercial includes that moment when she breathlessly says, “They said my name!” Just like keto or crossfit or any other big fitness fad, this thing is sold on identity and belonging. You Are Peloton.

The Playboy centerfold is implicit. Also, the presence of a young kid implies that the wife didn’t get her body back after the pregnancy to the husband’s satisfaction.

There’s an irony here: an actress trying too hard to put in a good performance to please her clients so she gets to keep working ends up coming off as a woman trying too hard to stay fit to please her husband so he won’t kick her out of the house.

idk, I would think the woman with the orthorexia video diary is much more likely to find it difficult to find work.

Another thing I love about this commercial is how the woman has pretty much a perfect body at the beginning of the thing. It would have made more sense if there was a Playboy centerfold taped to the wall in front of her on the bike with a note from her husband saying “LOOK LIKE THIS IN A WEEK OR IM DIVORCING YOU”

Holy crap!  I read this entire article, went to Wikipedia and read the entire summary, and I still want to see this movie.

As noted elsewhere, this did play in major arthouse movie theaters, for a while actually. You can also read the poem free online.

One of the underrated things I like about the show The 100 is that their religion, which is based on growing up on the ark in space & eventually being reunited on the ground in the afterlife (“may we meet again”) though we know it is largely nonsense, actually really is moving and provides needed connection and…

This marks the first time I'll be looking up a poem for mentions of an orgy. 

This movie sounds kind of awesome. The only thing it’s missing is some gratuitous IKEA jokes, but that might not fit the larger tone.