I agree with you on point. I don't think it's fair to call it fake outrage. If someone claims to be outraged, I don't think anyone can fairly claim that they are not. On the other hand, I'm entirely comfortable saying that someone's outrage is silly or ill-informed.

A movie about war can be realistic or it can be gender balanced. It's an exceptionally rare story that can be both.

Seemed pretty straightforward to me. The historical role of minorities and women should be acknowledged when it actually existed but not invented or exaggerated for the sake of diversity. Not all heroic stories from history were about white men, but a lot of them were and it's silly and condescending to pretend…

Sadly, the takeaway from a lot of interent outrage is "making nonwhite characters white = bad, making white characters nonwhite = good, and for god's sake please don't make a nonwhite character a different nonwhite race because I don't know the socially acceptable response to that."

The Watchmen movie was far from perfect, but a lot of Zack Snyder's changes were for the better. Using Doctor Manhattan as the world-unifying threat was far more logical and elegant than that alien nonsense. And he also wisely cut out most the right/left political dichotomy from the original, which was never really…

This is embarrassing. You're a pop culture site. I have no idea why A.V. Club writers think they can productively contribute to a debate on healthcare policy. Just because Trump pollutes the internet with wildly ill-informed rants on the subject doesn't mean you should follow suit.

"Real job" is not a clearly defined concept and reasonable people can disagree on whether certain jobs fall into that category. YouTuber, however, is not a borderline case. That's about as far as one can get from a real job.

Losing the Miz was fatal. If SmackDown had Miz sitting in a ring alone cutting a two-hour promo every week and Raw had everyone else on the roster, I'd rather watch SmackDown.

Not enough for me to be a Lena Dunham fan, but enough for me to not hate her and to see that she can be good when she's used well. Sure it's pretty thin, but I'm always happy to find an excuse not to hate someone. I'm trying to be positive here.

It seems odd to me that people hated Ben Browder as a replacement. MacGyver was on a reduced schedule for a while, and then he was off the team in an extremely reduced role for a full season before Browder came in. RDA's role wasn't that much smaller in Browder's first season than in the previous season.

I thought I hated Lena Dunham, but after I saw her in Seven Days in Hell, I'm not so sure anymore. As long as (1) she's not writing anything and (2) I can't see her god-awful tattoos, I think I might not hate her?

And with Dave Franco, it's also the final season of Scrubs reunion that no one wanted.

A pun on both the Fart and the Sandwich parts of Fart Sandwich. Well done.

Talking Smack was the only WWE show I watched on a weekly basis (I watch all the PPVs, sometimes NXT, never Raw or SmackDown). I was so disappointed, I cancelled my network subscription.

The possible outing seems far less objectionable than the fact that he used an acceptance speech as an opportunity to rehash a 10-year-old argument that he had with one of his actors. That's dreadfully bad form.

Dear god yes. Of all of the weirdness of Highlander, this doesn't get nearly enough attention. Somebody actually wrote a movie set largely in Scotland and then cast Sean Connery (the definitive Scottish actor) to play the non-Scottish guy. Mind-boggling.

Yes, and that's definitely the right approach. For an historical overview, measuring movies by influence rather than pure quality is much more interesting.

In every movie I've seen with Ice Cube, I understand from context that he's supposed to be physically intimidating, but I just don't see it. At all.

So I suppose it depends on how exactly you define "say" and "word."

Also Arrested Development.