Fair enough, JohnW. Sorry I jumped down your throat....

Then I do apologize, because I totally misread what you were saying.

Yeah, I didn’t even get most of what the movie was about - except Sam Elliott had a flying ship, which was cool and which he looked right at home at the helm of. Oh, and Ian McKellan voicing Iorek Byrnison, while looking kind of like a much bigger version of our huge, largely white, dopey male cat....

You pretty much sounded like you were being an apologist for Whitewashing, the way I read it - right down to “Fans With Blinders should get over it”.

Really - saying it’s 2020, get over it, Snowflakes? Then told Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope for saying that racism is more than “nerds getting their rage on”?

Maybe they should’ve done that, instead of letting it ooze out into theaters in the middle of a pandemic.

No, MAGA-head — go fuck yourself.

Given how important representation is to Fans of Color, you think it’s okay to say that? Do you also have an ALL LIVES MATTER bumper sticker with an American Flag backdrop on your car?

Indeed - WAKANDA FOREVER!

No, she ate it first - that’s the kind of garbage human being J.K. Rowling really is.

So... We should be tolerant of horrible bosses, because they have a right to be horrible...?

I feel I have no option but to return the Ripple of Hope Award bestowed upon me last year.

UPVOTE’d you both for a great Call&Response!

I’m so sorry to hear that, Doug R1!

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s is one interpretation, Lady Commentariat — BBC’s Mark Kermode loved this movie when it played in the UK pre-Lockdown.

That’s right, it is!

So you don’t want to know about a movie you’re not willing to risk seeing in a theater, but will watch on VoD or streaming?

Don’t forget that the AV Club’s reach is global, even though we’re in the US. People in Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand are going back to theaters without COVID-19 spikes - because they are, and have been, steadily Flattening the Curve while the USofA behaves like a cross between Libertarian Anarchy and…

Oh, my Gods — I had such a crush on Pat Benetar back then! She was like every bad girl you yearned for but never dared talk to, because she’d cut you down while lighting her cigarette -- strutting around the stage singing “You Better Run”.

Well, “Video Killed the Radio Star” kind of sums up early MTV — standard-def video, Look At Me, Ma! video effects, dorky-looking musicians running around trying to act while models wear weird fetish-y outfits, and “sets” either borrowed from studio backlots or cobbled together ten minutes before production had begun.