Kubo and the Two Strings is still fairly large-budget compared to many of the films that deserve to be nominated. For instance, independent animator Don Hertzfeldt's It's such a Beautiful Day was on many critics' year end overall best of lists— not even just for animated movies— and it didn't even get nominated.…

Yeah, but they would be basing that idea on the flawed "all publicity is good publicity" theory. While I'm sure it's been viewed FAR more than any Pepsi ad in years, people are already personally saying they'll stop drinking Pepsi, and as companies like Nordstrom's and Uber can attest, those boycotts have an effect.

The 1969 version is a thoroughly entertaining movie, even it's not as dramatically satisfying as many other war movies. But the dog fight scenes still look really good, and were an inspiration to George Lucas for the dog fight scenes in his Star Wars movies. That's why Lucas worked so hard for years to get his Red…

In the Futurama episode "Space Pilot 3000", the man in the "You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do" poster from the cryogenic lab has five fingers, and it looks weird as hell.

Look, I agree that there are some works of art that are undeniably well-crafted and are important in the context of their time and in their influence on culture and other artists. But that's a separate discussion, and it doesn't mean you have to LIKE the thing. It doesn't mean it's inherently GOOD art, because that's…

If you think art criticism is about what's good and what's bad, you don't know anything about art criticism.

One Step Beyond is a marvelous album!

No, it's not. My whole point is that good curation is impossible because the scope of material you'd have to be familiar with in order to provide a curated subset is so astronomical that you literally can't do it. So attempting to curate from near-infinity will necessarily result in ignoring huge swaths of…

Experience art however you want. But don't act like your taste is the objective truth, because that's how great stuff gets overlooked, especially now when the barrier for creating is lower than it ever has been.

One of my employees spends his free time trawling through Bandcamp, listening to snippets of songs and then paying for what he ends up liking. Every day he has some unheard of band to suggest to me because of it.

This is hilariously elitist and completely misses my entire point, which is that there IS no Good and Bad. Be good at articulating your tastes, sure, but since you cannot possibly be an authority on every piece of entertainment, your curation is inherently flawed and not worth a damn. That kind of gatekeeping approach…

I disagree. The explosion of online media hasn't just meant there are a lot of new things and it's impossible for the normies to sift though, it's at the point where it's impossible for ANYONE to sift through. So cultural gatekeepers have lost their comprehensive grasp of the media landscape, but have held onto their…

So glad a cisgender heterosexual guy is here to tell all of the LGBTQ people they need to lighten up.

How about you skip them misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic comedian and watch specials by people who don't use their talent and platform to insult people they don't understand!

The only thing Chappelle has a worthwhile viewpoint on is race. But he's incredibly sexist, homophobic, and transphobic. He can claim all he wants that he's not, but it's undercut but almost every single thing he says. His progressivism is sorely lacking in intersectionality, and it's frustrating to see him held up to…

There has never in the history of politics been a subtle political ad, so I really don't think this was sarcastic.

I'm not trying to say they're literally the same thing, I'm saying that claiming people portraying other races is fine— then using Genghis Khan as your example— hurts your argument a lot more than it helps it.

True, and his performance was intentionally over the top and offensive.

I think you completely missed my point there, buddy. =/

A fictional character doesn't HAVE to be any race at all. But this one was Japanese all throughout the movie, and that would be important representation in an American-made movie, having an Asian woman as your action lead.