Thank you for mentioning what this entire debate is about. It’s not simply the old directors not liking Marvel movies. It’s about the business of movies and how Marvel, through the growing Disney hegemony, is eating up screens at cineplexes and killing the adult-oriented drama.

I think the problem is you have situations where a movie like Inception never gets made unless Christopher Nolan agrees to do The Dark Knight first.  Studios are sacrificing good films for corporate greed.  My kids will be watching Transformers 26 and some Adam Sandler movie when they are older simply because they…

I can’t stand superhero movies. I have been bored silly by every one I have sat through. I wouldn’t give a fuck about them, though, if anything else was being made. I can’t tell you the number of times in the last 10 years I have wanted to see a movie, checked the listings, only to be met with the latest round of…

I thought Portman’s work in “Black Swan” was WAY overrated, but she is legitimately terrific in “Jackie”.

Elevated blood sugar levels are definitely connected to more frequent yeast infections. It used to happen to me fairly often when I drank sodas... I was also taking oral contraceptives at the time, which made me more prone to them (ugh). I completely gave up drinking sodas about 5 years ago, and haven’t had a YI since…

I don’t get this, I mean you get carbs from other sources...I wanna know is this people who eat mainly meat and fat and no veggies? What about the veggie people? One should be eating a shit ton of veggies on keto, like any other healthy diet.

Ok. But high carb diets possibly lead to yeast infections. I’ll take a bit of off smell instead of an off smell and an unbearable itch.

I work all over the world and me skipping breakfast has precisely fuck-all impact on food security anywhere else. Do you know how many fat Americans are malnourished? Do you know how much supply chains for shitty food ACTUALLY contribute to poverty and food insecurity in other countries? Hope you don’t buy any…

How is not eating privileged? Would those that eat like a pig be more privileged than those that show restraint?

I’m broadly sympathetic to your wider point that to some extent being in a position to opt for elective privation rather than have it forced upon you by invidious circumstance is indeed a symptom of the lamentable disparity between the affluent ends of some societies & the literal multitudes who are not so lucky...

glad i could help! lots of people like to criticize trends and celebrities... but hopefully each time you feel this way, you’ll consider redirecting some of that energy into sharing your good fortune by contributing or volunteering too.

it’s not somehow better to eat when you don’t need to or want to. if it makes you this angry, i’m sure that there are ways to send aid or donations to the countries and communities you mentioned or even just your local food bank/shelter (because there are certainly starving Americans too).

Luke is human. He’s not some ideal, Jedi-god. He’s a way more interesting character than any of the Jedi we saw in the prequels because’s a normal, flawed person <i>trying</i> to be a Jedi. In every movie he’s appeared in, we have seen him succumb to his emotions. He barely trained with Yoda and largely had to be…

Staid, traditional, bordering-on-religious-text narratives NEED to be confronted. I say thank goodness *someone* tried to do something different. As opposed to the “let’s just copy-paste the beats from New Hope” approach by JJ.

Amazing, every single word you said is wrong. 

it had been a long time since Luke had been tested and he made a mistake that he instantly regretted.

Agreed. That’s another stupid fucking argument from people who willfully ignore things literally said and done in TLJ. At no point does Luke state or do anything to that shows him “giving up” on Kylo. The fact that he DIDN’T physically confront him supports that: Luke didn’t see a benefit to engage in a laser sword…

Wait, there are people who don’t already know this?? It was obvious to me the first time I saw it in the theater and I was five years old at the time. Luke looks down at his mechanical hand, realizing that he’ll become like Vader if he kills him.

In what way did the review claim that Ilana’s use of “ma’am” instigated the alternate reality? All the review was saying was that, in the BAD DAY TIMELINE, the use of “ma’am” is what lead to Abbi backing away from Ilana and not pursuing the connection. It wasn’t what caused a timeline slip, yes (that already happened…

Wow I didn’t think a paid AV Club reviewer would get this so wrong, but the instigating sliding doors / alternate reality moment isn’t due to a “ma’am.” It’s because in one reality the businessman barfs off the side of the stairs and they MAKE their train, and in the other he barfs right in front of them and they MISS…