As a self-righteous Libertarian, I believe you have a God given right to do anything you want without government interference. Government should only be used to prevent other people from stopping me from doing whatever I want.  

No no, I had this all explained to me. It’s not racist because they know what they are doing is racist. Simpsons said Apu wasn’t racist, and that is racist. South Park is actively racist, which is just commentary about racism, and therefore not racist.

It was clearly a tongue in cheek joke.
I’m sure they realize they have no room to criticize Apu in any serious way, what with their Chinese restaurant guys.

It rang very true to me. I knew a guy who’d been training as a guard at the local prison. He said that he was taught to yell “stop resisting” anytime they’d have to physically subdue (beat) a prisoner as a way to cover their asses when it came time to file paperwork.

There’s an aphorism: If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. Melissa McCarthy is too often the funniest person in the movie.

I got a puppet jizz notification for this?

The answer to “Why do you think popular movies are shitty?” is “Because you are a snob.”

Up and Toy Story 3 have been the only films nominated for both animated film and best picture since the best animated feature category was introduced in 2002. The 82nd Academy Awards was the first to move to the 10 best picture nominees, after The Dark Knight and Wall-E failed to gain any traction to the arthouse fare.

One fairly elegant solution would be to define the categories in terms of box office gross receipts.  If it makes $100 million, it is “popular,” if it doesn’t it is not.  That would eliminate hand-wringing about what is art and what isn’t.

I definitely hate this.

If a popular film category had existed last year, one of the best films of the year, Get Out, would probably not have gotten its deserved Best Picture nomination, but instead have been relegated to the popular category.

I thought the point of expanding the BP nominees was to give notoriety to the mass-appeal films that nevertheless managed to also be good?

This makes no sense because of movies like Batman, The Dark Knight, Titanic, JAWS, Lord of the Rings, Mad Max: Fury Road, etc. It is entirely possible for a movie to be both incredibly popular and yet considered to be artful enough to get in the running for Best Picture. It just doesn’t happen often because it’s very…

I’m not really sure the winners are really going to feel much pride from getting a patronizing award.

is this like how Graham Greene would separate his books into “novels” and “entertainments”?

What? No, no. He was the one who was correct. I’m saying, how could anyone NOT get what he did out of it when it’s telegraphed so clearly?

He addresses his actions in the film, specifically even thinking about killing Ben in his sleep, as a mistake. A mistake not dissimilar from lashing out at Vader, I believe.

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…

Also, he wavered on Darth, too. Let’s not forget that he did have that exact same look on his face when he realized that he was about to murder his dad that he did when he realized he was about to murder his nephew. (Have I mentioned how damn much I love Mark Hamill’s acting choices in TLJ?)

if he was wise enough to see the goodness in Darth Vader, why couldn’t he do the same for teenage Ben Solo?

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.