Yeah but at the end of the episode they still stuck it out for the sake of the townspeople. They even still point that out with Tweek’s dad being so proud of his son being gay, so presumably they’re still keeping the appearances up.

Yeah it was a bait and switch on the whole plot of raising awareness about being on your phone. There’s literally a montage of people being made president and then giving up using their phones.

“So, were they just lying about that, or what?”

It’s because most people go to the kind of movies they enjoy, so in general most movies will be rated fairly well by the people who see them. The owner has said that unlike a school grading which has a bell curve around C, they have a bell curve around B.

That’s probably true, but also this was back when the GOP was being branded as “compassionate conservatism” rather than the modern party of Trump with the “fuck them all to death” philosophy.

This sounds like a movie trailer from Interdimensional Cable.

Here’s the thing about that though: most people in a general audience for mother! aren’t going to see a “Darren Aronofsky movie”. They’re going to see a “Jennifer Lawrence movie”, or a horror movie. Most people who see movies don’t know or care who the director is, and even if they did, Aronofsky isn’t exactly Stephen…

I honestly do not understand people who walk out part-way through a movie. Like, you paid for this, how precious is your time that you can’t just see how it works out? Do these people walk in like they’re going to a party where they sort of plan to leave early if they aren’t feeling it?

I’ll have the baby-guts.

Eh, Days of Future Past was a lot better than First Class.

Who are you? J Jonah Jameson? Get over it!

Noah was actually quite successful, making $360m worldwide against a $120m budget. Black Swan also got over $300m against a $30m budget. Both of those took home less than a typical Adam Sandler movie, and lord knows his career isn’t in danger. The Wrestler made $44m, which isn’t huge, but against a $6m budget it would…

It would be baffling if not for the star power of the cast. The 2 leads are Academy award winners, the two main supports are multiple-time nominees. Usually weird arthouse films don’t get stacked with that kind of pedigree. I think Paramount knew it was going to be hated by a lot of general audience, and it’s possibly…

You aren’t supposed to treat Cinemascore as some kind of gauge of whether or not to see a movie. It’s basically a barometer of expectations vs reality for the paying audience. In general, an audience who pays to see The Emoji Movie or the latest Adam Sander movie is the kind of audience who enjoys those movies and…

Jeb!

This goes beyond “believing women”. This is like Pizzagate. A huge horrible crime that somehow has zero actual named victims.

“it’s been rumoured for years, it even surfaced in a Gawker article in 2012" should be “it’s been rumoured for years, entirely and exclusively because it surfaced in a Gawker article in 2012".

You just have to use the Donald Trump school of spreading shit by reporting that “a lot of people are talking about this”. That way you get out of having any personal responsibility for spreading it!

I honestly hate this stupid fucking rumour. I’m all for believing women, but this is a case where seemingly no woman has even come forward and said it happened to them. The source on it is fucking Gawker. That’s it. If it was the Washington Post or Vox or the AP I’d give it some credence, but it’s a shitty…

They don’t actually eat the baby on screen really. It’s more that there is a horribly dismembered and flayed baby corpse shown on the screen.