their mistake was thinking people were smart enough that just listening to what Trump was saying would be enough to guarantee they wouldn't vote for him.

The screenwriter also did the original Sicario

Aside from the Quicksilver scene, Apocalypse's effects did look awful, but 3/4 of his X-Men films have been very good.

Generally the extreme minority opinion shouldn't be speaking for all "People"

Civil War fits that description as well though and ended up being great

There is a difference between "Best" and "Best for its time" though. That movie has aged terribly

Apocalypse is enough better than 8, and 9 that it shouldn't be lumped in with them.
There should probably be 3 tiers though for good, decent, and awful

You are

Having not read the books or seen the film, it was very surprising just how frustrating this show makes you feel. Every adult character is just so incompetent and causes so much trouble for the Baudelaires that it is often hard to watch as which the song in the opening credits suggests

I wasn't aware of this change and can't seem to find anything about it. Is this the first Oscars with this change in place?

The fact that the real Bruce Springsteen performed at Obama's makes this even better.

Generic and by the numbers seem like the least reasonable critique you could attribute to that film

0/3 imo

Mad Max and The Martian were nominated last year, and at least Inception prior to that

well people speculate that they increased the number of slots for Best Picture in response to not nominating The Dark Knight so it's reasonable to think they could eventually nominate one. I'd be shocked if Deadpool were the one to do it though, even Civil War seems more likely

Well Vin Diesel said that about Furious 7 which I do think is a significantly better film than Deadpool

All of this talk about how Deadpool was so hard to make is basically bs. As a superhero film sure, but it's an established property that's part of an already existing popular cinematic universe in the most popular genre of film.

He had me for exactly Crash

There's a pretty clear Hemsworth hierarchy so it doesn't make sense to claim they are interchangeable.

You didn't miss anything. The linked article says exactly the same thing as this one which is that Kutcher's quote was 3 times higher, so he got paid 3 times more.