Personally, I think he should state every single mass shooting there has been in America so far this year, naming each and how many died/were wounded in each one. It'd take an age, but it'd showcase the ridiculous, wrenching quantity of gun deaths in America. Then make every government building in America recite it in…

They are few. We are many.

Okay, so it's mostly invented for the show but the pose does have a connection to the events. Gotcha.

So I've heard a few bits from Hamilton, and it sounds decent, if not really my sort of thing (and so much better than the God awful Fun Home that won best musical last year). Even if it's not my sort of show, I can appreciate that Hamilton winning would be a very good sign for musicals in general.

Order of the Phoenix was the worst of the books, and translated perfectly to the worst of the films. 1 and 2 are fine, particularly as kids' films. There's no need for them to be more mature, that's what they are.

Cars is a decent film, but Pixar at the time was doing way better than decent very consistently. I understand why it got stick at the time, but I think it's willfully ignorant of people to still cite it as a 'bad' film. Cars 2 is a bad film. The Good Dinosaur is a bad film (heck, I'm not convinced it's even a film).…

Yeah, but they're still all unpleasant and selfish characters. True, some of them eventually compromise, but I'm not convinced they actually learn anything about how to be better people - from the evidence presented in the film, they are just as selfish at the end of the film as they were at the start, they just work…

I watched FBDO for the first time a few years ago, and I thought it was a pretty lousy piece with a horrible message (which you explain quite eruditely, so thank you). Last year I watched The Breakfast Club for the first time… and it made me sick. Aside from the horrible sexism on display throughout the movie, the…

Definitely see that happening; he'll have been turned (at least partially) by the Russian government.

Oh, I remember. Ridiculous twist after ridiculous twist - and not the fun kind like we had in the previous seasons, just more of the same sort of thing. So much about that season just did not work. They kind of stuck the landing, with an original finale which promised a fresh move forward for Jack and the show, but…

You know, when you put it that way, it sounds kinda stupid.

That's fair. As with s7, the end of s8 was a flip of what we'd seen before, and it made it a great final arc. They definitely stuck the landing… but the early majority of s8 was not great. They turned it around enough that it would have been a fine way to leave the 24 story; that said, Live Another Day was an even…

Tyler Perry's Mel Gibson's The Book of Mormon
A Film by George Lucas

The book's good, but that whole last part spent waaaaay too much time setting up sequels that the author never delivered.

24? I hardly even know 'er!

I'm with you on the lesser love for 1. It's a strong start, but it does have the [SPOILER] amnesia, which isn't quite as bad as the [SPOILER] cougar, but it's still pretty dumb. 5 is superb, the show at its absolute best, and I really enjoy s7 as the show taking itself to task, with a really refreshing tone after the…

The lyrics are lazy, real first draft stuff. The metre of the words barely fits the music at times, and there is nothing inspired, no multisyllabic rhymes, no interesting words, nothing original or particularly evocative in the lyrics at all. Let It Go has completely the wrong tone for its place in Elsa's story - it's…

Assonance is not structurally sound, which is why it's typically reserved for internal rhyme where it can add a nice effect but doesn't have to support the structure of the poem/song.

Oh, he doesn't have to to be successful (there's enough recent examples in pop music and film/Broadway to show that shitty lyrics don't hurt a piece's chance with the public), I was merely placing some faith that the man would improve his craft.

I felt it would be a disservice to ignore Frozen in a discussion of bad lyrics.