The person I was referring to performed actions to entice a group of people to act in a way he wanted so he could call them racists. That is literally the definition is it not?

I mean, the term exists for exactly this context. Even in this situation it seems more and more like he was purposely being disruptive so he would get kicked off just so he could lie and say it was just because he spoke arabic on a phone. Exposing racism is fine, but claiming something happens because of racism when…

Apparently this youtuber has staged previous race-baiting videos including one where he would count down in arabic to see how people would react (also seems to have been coincidentally removed from his channel as of today) as a social experiment so it seems more and more likely that "talking in arabic" wasn't the real…

I even generally thought most MCU films are funnier than it (i.e. Age of Ultron, Civil War). Since those are also much more ambitious with their story and spectacle as well, they end up being overall just much better films for me

seems like a stretch to say they took their crown after one good film, especially considering Finding Dory was still good, just not great.

I wouldn't come close to calling it one of the best Marvel produced films, but it did improve on second viewing for me as well. In the first viewing, very few jokes actually landed which made me consider it a generic below average superhero origin story that tried too hard to be funny. With lowered expectations I…

As much as I really enjoyed this movie, nuanced is the opposite of how I would describe it. The commentary on prejudices was very egregious and was very clearly the entire point of the film.

Toy Story 3 and Inside Out are easily better imo.

why is that as it should be? If they made Mordo an Asian character and The Ancient One white then how is that not equal?

Maybe I'm dumb but wouldn't this have the opposite effect?:
"The point is that Bieber’s actions are viewed through his status as a white male, and putting a black actor into the role forces the audience to reevaluate Bieber’s obnoxious behavior through the lens of someone who wouldn’t be granted nearly as much latitude…

honestly, making his love-interest asian could have been a good solution to this controversy. Although considering they apparently got no credit for casting a black actor in a white character's role it's possible people wouldn't have cared

I'll likely try watching it again, likely as a background show until it improves though

I just tried watching the first 2 episodes tonight and unfortunately Jim Caviezel is basically unwatchable. When a hitman got shot, seemingly dead (obviously wasn't going to be), then was shown to specifically remove his shirt to reveal the obvious bullet proof vest was basically the last straw

how is Christmas essential to Die Hard?

That's not a problem with the film, but rather a disconnect between people's expectation of what the film should be vs what it was. Since I have no remote attachment to Superman as a character for example, that had no bearing on my enjoyment of the film. Another common complaint is the tone which falls under the…

These are all more "movies that happen to take place at Christmas" than "Christmas movies"

And those films have aged more poorly than almost everything else released around it's time so not having those types of scenes in that tone is completely defensible.

Character motivations is really the only other egregious problem and a lot of characterization regarding that was even lost as a result of chopping it out of the film

I really liked BvS and thought it had a lot of elements of a very good movie that was mostly let down by very poor editing. I do personally prefer a lot of MCU films over it though

I'd say if there's anything the movie is, it's well shot. Saying it's poorly shot sounds like you are just making up more reasons to hate it