I think the tweet’s broader argument is that when Americans start lecturing / imposing their values on the rest of the world based on this limited exposure and understanding, problems tend to arise.

It’s meant to be a kind of whiny, unstable and hysterical shriek. The person saying it has lost control of the volume and tone of their voice, that kind of thing. 

In that case, should it even be a matter of such fierce debate if one Black actor portrays Cleopatra after a string of white ones?

“Stay away from Death Mountain.”

Pretty sure this guy’s been dressed like Desmond Pfeiffer in every photo I’ve seen of him. 

Oh, and the Max Landis thing was real, by the way.

Not that much; it took me about two minutes (and I actually do know this, because I’ve set myself a browser timer to lock me out of the AV Club after a set amount of time). Though considering how many people seem to decided to get snappy at me over what’s basically a slightly flippant AV Club post, it kind of makes me…

If I were a Mossad spook
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long, I’d biddy biddy bum
If I were a Mossad spook
I could kill a man with just a pen
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
If I were a biddy biddy Mossad yidle-diddle-didle-didle spook!

Yeah, but it’s not a film just for middle-aged nerds is I think their issue. The Mario movie they want would be closer to that 600-odd page Max Landis fan script that was doing the rounds a few years back where Mario started out as a chronically depressed schizophrenic and the whole thing ended up basically being Lord…

There was a real moment there when people for some inexplicable reason kept casting Richard Roxburgh as reimaginings of beloved 19th century fictional characters; as well as Dracula, he was Moriarty in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and was also Holmes in a lame version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. 

How very dare you people. You left out the best one.

I always enjoy the scene in The West Wing when they’re discussing this and Toby is being Toby and all pedantic and snotty about it and Sam just kind of lamely says “Yeah, but... we’ve made all these plans.”

I got an honest jolt when I read there that Stephen Root is 71. He seems strangely ageless. 

I dunno about unpopular, but it does kind of feel like you’ve maybe missed the point a little. It’s been repeatedly made clear that, for all their pretensions otherwise, not one of Logan’s children is capable of following in his footsteps.

In fairness, he might show up in a flashback or something. 

Seems like that’s kind of a big ask these days.

I look forward to the inevitable pissing and whining when they turn out to a bit flawed and not what they wanted after all.

Honestly, I thought the way that “Sympathy” gradually started bleeding into then getting taken over by the Raiders March actually did establish that there’d be plenty of swashbuckler energy pretty effectively. To each their own, though.

Eh, the whole point of a trailer is to establish what’s going on as clearly and obviously as possible. Sure, “Sympathy” is a bit of an obvious “hey it’s 1969 now” needle drop, but point out any other plausible song they could have used which wouldn’t have had some Patrick Willems-type somewhere online complaining…

Groundhog Day isn’t about emasculating Bill Murray, it’s about the struggles of self-improvement and becoming a better person. And I’m pretty sure that Bob Ross’s reputation and fame has grown, not diminished, since his death.