He’s a rich person, there’s no way he really cares about the wall. Maybe as an abstract principle (MAYBE), but not because it will ever have any effect on his life. It’s the poors that will suffer for its construction. And the NY Times, above all, has incredibly antipathy if not outright disdain for the poor.

As someone who actually kind of enjoyed reading it: it has decent worldbuilding, the references hit the nostalgic sweet spot for the target demo, it was released right as nerdy nostalgia was becoming a true driving force in pop culture but before we all became this sick of it. But, Cline is a terrible writer. His…

I like the new Weird Al part, but holy Christ no to the Hamilton part

Sam Bee has definitely done some good segments but she has some really bad ones as well...to be fair, I have some particular issues with some of her politics and the school segregation thing really put me off of her and Jason Jones, so I only really see her bits when fellow leftists find something especially noxious…

I think this is generally true, but Oliver if anything would be the one exception because he actually does delve into things that the other shows don’t and doesn’t rely solely on Trump-bashing (which is also what makes his show the only watchable one of these Daily Show-knockoff shows these days, although the…

Yeah, I never missed the Report but I really can’t take Colbert anymore. Especially after that “cock holster” bit or that idiotic one where he describes Trump as the “disease,” the point apparently being that describing Trump as a symptom of a larger disease in American politics (an objectively true and obvious thing…

I guess I’m glad TV bloggers are watching The Opposition, because clearly no one else is.

Trevor Noah’s (rightful) protestations of Tomi Lahren’s hateful rhetoric would probably have credibility if he didn’t send her cupcakes every time he stated them.

The sad thing is she’s exceptionally deserving of that ridicule even compared to most people on that network.

It’s not the political team, it’s the fact that she’s on a propaganda network. Though really the team itself is bad enough at this point.

We can have empathy for rank and file people with conservative views without acting like powerful, highly-paid political and media figures deserve some special consideration of…

Casey Affleck is probably a piece of shit, but the way this article is written doesn’t make any sense. Isn’t the fact that he’s been accused of harassment and a petition is going around asking that he not be involved kind of obviously the thing he’s alluding to when he says he doesn’t want to be a distraction? Say…

That they’re at a higher skill level is fine. My issue is that it’s just so flashy that the characters don’t appear to be in danger (presumably, a highly skilled Jedi should still be in some kind of danger facing off against a highly skilled Sith), and it’s so “choreographed” feeling that I don’t even really believe…

The Obi-Wan/Vader duel in the original film gets a lot of shit these days for not having the most interesting or intense choreography, but I’ve always thought it was a fantastic scene because of the dialogue and obvious tension between the characters. I’ve always thought of it whenever I think about the folly of the…

That’s definitely possible. I never had a huge problem with her costuming choices cause, like, it’s homage, but yeah, I could see that ruffling some feathers. Her makeup is definitely very Japanese in a lot of scenes. But, given that she wasn’t playing a preexisting character (or real person) who isn’t white even in…

It might have been me saying that about TLJ but (certainly in comparison to the prequels, and compared to a lot of other people whining about TLJ) it’s a minor complaint for me. I think the new films have a different tone of humor than the original trilogy, in more of a generic “modern blockbuster” style, and while I…

There are so many problems with the character motivation in that movie, honestly. Qui Gon really does very little throughout the movie to protect the Queen, and the villains’ motivations and actions make maybe even less sense (I think it was Red Letter Media that pointed out that they take who they think is Padme away…

I’m just glad that Zach Galifanakis is too principled to work with predators, which is why he only works with goodhearted, clean people like Mike Tyson.

I mean, at least Portman was one of the parts of Phantom Menace that wasn’t shockingly racist.

I would add to this: whenever I start to be genuinely excited during the race it gets ruined by corny jokes. That two-headed announcer is just obnoxious and unbearable and it’s CONSTANTLY talking, and that’s when there aren’t other stupid cartoony jokes with the various CGI monstrosities that Lucas made the other…

Other people mentioned the pod race and their problems with it, but I’m not even sure I’m a huge fan of the big saber fight. It definitely has impressive choreography but it looks, well, choreographed and not real, and waaaay too flashy. It doesn’t really serve any meaningful role in the story (other than “we need a…