“A lot of what works about Man Of Steel is in the grandeur of the set pieces. The movie opens with a wild, psychedelic Kryptonian battle sequence, which is a whole hell of a lot more engaging than a bored Marlon Brando intoning at crystals for 20 minutes.”

Stories like this and the Covington Catholic thing are what make me think that all the optimism people are having about young people saving us once they reach voting age is kind of unfounded. Since I’m too lazy to actually dig for statistics, can someone tell me if there actually is this burgeoning swell of racist…

Hail, Satan!

“I never frauded anyone! All I did was promise, and accept payment for, a service I was totally unable to provide! Where’s the fraud, I ask you?”

I agree with you 100%, but what’s been funny to me is seeing some of the resistance from Millennial folks to some of the points Fyre Fraud makes about social media, influencer culture, and the effect it’s had on that particular generation. I feel like it actually takes a pretty sympathetic view toward Millennials, but…

It’s amazing how Black Panther can be such a great movie without any great acting, directing, or writing.

I’ve lived in NYC for 21 years, and been harassed on the street by the Black Israelites literally hundreds of times in that period. Weirdly, I never felt the urge to do anything other than walk away. Strange how easy that is. 

...I feel like saying, “The problem isn’t that it exists, it’s that it’s so pervasive” is weird, as that’s kind of the whole point. No one, in this doc or elsewhere, would give two poops about social media if no one was using it, because then it wouldn’t even have a chance to affect our cultural conversation. There’d…

No love for Miley? Not that I’m her hugest fan, but I saw a clip of her doing “Say Hello 2 Heaven,” and she straight crushed it. 

It’s not the doc’s thesis. It’s a bit on what factored into making MacFarland’s con work, but it’s short, and a very small part of the overall doc.

TBH, I kind of liked what the writer here criticized about Fyre Fraud - the way that it tied overall millennial culture and the social media nightmare in which we’ve all entrapped ourselves into the Fyre Festival phenomenon. I know everyone’s tired of think pieces about how millennials are killing this or that, but I…

Here’s a fun exercise while watching Fyre Fraud - count the number of times the talking head interviewees use the word “like.” I’d say to make it a drinking game, but you’d be dead of alcohol poisoning in the first half hour.

That was kind of my point. :) I was being sarcastic about how people FLIP OUT when a character’s skin color is changed, as if that is the one and only sole and important thing about the character, yet don’t seem to mind when, as is happening here, other key details are swapped in and out. 

I mean, it’s not like they made a DRASTIC OFFENSIVE CHANGE like altering the ethnic background of the main character, or anything. 

“There’s nothing wrong with eating fast food”

Grammar nit: Have movies become sentient to the point at which we’re referring to them as “who,” now?

Ctrl-v-fuck Kanye.

It’s a good thing this debacle once and for all submarined the Instagram influencer economy and opened people’s eyes to the potential for social media to be used to con them into terrible personal and financial decisions.

Enrico Pallazzo to “Bandersnatch” critic critics like Charlie Brooker: “Fuck off, do something else”

I’m absolutely with you on the tribalistic fandom. So, we agree there.