You sound like someone who is routinely hitting on people much more attractive than yourself then blaming them for not being attracted to you. FYI, yes, that's creepy.

I'm so happy I wasn't the only one who kept getting lost around that damn volcano.

Nah, Skyward Sword is great. My love for it grew exponentially with every new temple/location introduction, especially all the desert areas. I was very lukewarm about it at first (wasn't a huge fan of the academy island set-up, was really disappointed that the lower world wasn't full of Gerudos and Gorons and Zora),…

Yeah, this is how I saw it. He had to make a fool of himself, have a full-on mental breakdown, and attempt suicide for the art world and the Twitter world to take him seriously for 5 minutes. A real artist would've been able to write or perform it convincingly without living it. And, in the end, he either jumped to…

it's a movie about the entertainment industry that makes an actor out to be a hero

Like what? The voice in his head, the flying, all that made sense because they were part of his massive ego + his past as Birdman.

I think this article is way off base and barely makes sense. People don't criticize Twilight because it's fantastical, they criticize it because it fails in basic literature concepts like character complexity, originality, its ability to be compelling, the coherency of its plot, etc. It seems like a massive oversight…

Is that really what their "beast" looks like? He's living in the sewer because he has a tiny scar on his cheek?

I keep giving Del Toro chance after chance because there's always a little glimmer of something brilliant in all his films, but wow, this looks even worse than Pacific Rim. "Let's just throw together a bunch of cliches about Victorian haunted mansions and creepy repressed rich people and CGI ink globs. Whoo, spooky~."

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That's daddy porn. Dad porn would be something different.

I'm trying to think what "dad porn" would but, and it seems like it would just be… porn.

I remember it being socially acceptable to love American Pie. Certainly no one thought it was cinematic high art (I don't get the impression anyone thinks that about 50 Shades, either), but making fun of it was definitely not just as pervasive as liking it, as is the case with 50 Shades.

I was just watching the Hooters episode of The Office last night and appreciating how they make fun of Michael's buffoonish behavior.

Secretary is not a mainstream phenomenon. You can't compare non-Hollywood, non-mainstream films to Hollywood films; obviously, the former is usually going to be smarter and riskier.

I'm not dying on the 50 Shades hill, I'm just tired of seeing phrases like "mommy porn" and how suddenly everyone's eyes are opened to the unsexiness of stupid erotica, even though we are already totally saturated in stupid, unsexy erotica.

I definitely don't think, from anything I've read or seen, that it's good. What I have a problem with is people using terms like "mommy porn" to make fun of it. While more discerning people will make fun of the mainstream crap, male-gaze or not, it's largely accepted among the general masses. Making fun of 50 Shades,…

Wait, what? Are you seriously trying to tell me that 50 Shades has, single-handedly, in the last couple of years, usurped all these stupid and long-held male-gaze tropes—which go back at least to the 50s with Marilyn Monroe acting like an imbecile in everything she's in?

Yeah, but I don't see that happening on a large scale the way it has been with 50 Shades.

I resent, more and more, how everyone makes fun of how silly this story is and how it's "mommy porn heeheehee." Can we take a step back and look at how stupid mainstream, male-targeted titillation is? Women in bikini chain mail; women on comic book covers who have plastic spines and can pose in just the right way so…