Hot Rod does not work as a real movie with a real story, but it has multiple great gags. The Will Arnett “Babe!” scene alone!

No, and I have gone to battle many times along these lines.

Me sure South Asian community is relieved that you, white person, has decided for them that character conceived as walking stereotype not degrading.

Me surprised it took three hours after this article was posted for someone to show up and say, “but white people are the real victims! Waaaaaaaaah!!!!!!”

Can we please retire this? It was dumb when it started and now it’s just so goddamned tired and played out. The right saying it without a sense of irony, the left reframing it ironically, the whole stupid thing.

If by “the left” you mean “consumers of fiction,” and “their own” you mean “a hack writer,” I guess?

I hope that at some point, it dawned on you that the read was just a written version of the video...

if the fucking brothel ends up being a giant syphilitic chekov’s gun like that I think I might actually laugh so hard that I transcend into the next dimension

I am 10000% the target demo for this movie: a white woman in my late 30's who is upper-middle class, wears a size 12, shops at (and loves!) Target (so, so, so much...it’s a problem), has paid money to go see Amy Schumer perform comedy...but I just know this movie is terrible, and won’t bother to see it until it lands…

Sally was shown to be kind of a jerk before this, though—she cuts off other people in the class to talk over them, she expects Barry to drop everything to be by her side, she’s snobbish about her old castmate who tried to help her by getting her the zoo mom audition. I don’t think she’s meant to be all that likable.

It’s pretty amazing that a lawyer with three whole clients, one of whom he never bills and another for whom he pays out six-figure settlements personally with no expectation of reimbursement from the actual client, actually manages to stay in business.

This is well-argued but I just don’t think I can accept a 2011 movie about people cheating on each other being the best superhero film of 1994.