Yeah, the snark paints Nolan’s position as fundamentally unreasonable, but it isn’t. A lot of filmmakers spent years of their lives working on the movies that were in the can in 2020, and a lot of those films had investors who expected an eventual theatrical release. Now those films are all just getting dumped onto a…

There is something kind of sweet about the way late-20th century people tended to view the coming information age with such naïve optimism. In videos like this, nobody ever mentions that all of the new technology will just make it easier to watch porn, organize fascist movements, and spread the belief that the earth…

So I’m a hardcore OT-is-the-only-real-canon, grew up watching the originals on VHS, was already an adult when the prequels came out, never read an old or new EU novel, and never got into the 21st century cartoons type of Star Wars fan.

Imagine being outraged by the sight of a man in a dress, while chortling at the sight of children in cages.

I think it’s supposed to break down like:

TPM: Anakin is 10, Padme is 14 (Portman was about 17 during filming)
AOTC: Anakin is 20, Padme is 24

Like, it’s not *that* weird that they start dating with that age difference, but since Natalie Portman looks like a full-grown adult in TPM and isn’t recast for the next movie, it…

My kids have made me watch that execrable Grinch movie about 20 times during the pandemic. I’ve been reading this column since it started, I’ve seen just about every film that made the list, and the Grinch is *by far* the worst top-grossing movie that we’ll have to discuss. It causes physical pain to watch it.

Your arguments explain the 2016 election.

Biden’s messaging sure seemed to work well on swing voters, that’s why he’s the President-elect and not me.

There wasn’t any sewage or needles out on the streets when we all poured out of our apartments for joyous spontaneous celebrations in Brooklyn all weekend.

We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. I’m just saying that we kind of tied ourselves up into knots trying to sympathize with the Bad People because we thought we needed their votes, and we really don’t — we need to avoid complacency, maximize our turnout, and accept that it is racism and tribalism rather than…

It wasn’t until I read this review that I realized just how much of a relief it is that we no longer have to beat ourselves up trying to understand why white supremacists don’t vote the way we want them to!

I think the price of admission is just accepting that the series premise and structure is going to result in a lot of episodes that are variations on Seven Samurai, with only the thinnest tissue of serialization included as a nod to 21st century prestige television.

The “smoke” is that, like every healthy adult, the boyfriend was not a virgin when he began dating this nutcase. Unless they were raised Mormon or something, everyone should just assume that their new partner’s social circle and workplace is littered with several people they used to fuck. The only way to avoid this is…

Counterpoint: Trump voters don’t deserve love, and that’s true for every last one of them.

He’s really doing Fire Marshall Bill from his In Living Color days, he’s just 30 years older. It’s a little bit sad that Carrey never really gained any new comedic gears as he aged.

“But then why is Herman Cain so angry?”
“Because you got him killed.”

I always liked the idea that Lex fundamentally longs for the adulation Superman receives, but he can never receive it, because he’s morally defective — and he’s not really self-reflective enough to understand that. Lex thinks it’s just about the superpowers, and doesn’t understand that everyone loves Superman because…

The film studios aren’t incompetent. They don’t have a crystal ball any more than you do, and so they’ve had to adjust their plans multiple times as social distancing and capacity restrictions have dragged on far longer than originally seemed likely or possible.

It’s also not clear that the aliens even intend to subjugate humans and force them into some kind of servitude, or turn Earth into a colony with limited human rights and no representation in the alien Parliament. It’s not like humans are staring down the barrel of paying exorbitant taxes on tea — the aliens seem to be…

Now I’m sad because I just realized that many thousands of James Bond fans — who could totally have streamed the movie at home by now — will die of the virus before it’s finally released in theaters.