And everyone in here should sit there asses down and listen to my tale of Denton the Good and the media utopia he once ruled, and how we should all lament the coming of the Monster Hogan.

I didn’t spend six weeks learning how to play the lute off of Youtube to let this skill just sit fallow so eat your damned pulled…

I don’t think I’d call anything either Groot or Mario says as an onomatopoeia. 

I mean I rewatched your first movie, James, and was kind of stunned by how much more racist and awful it was than I remember—and I thought it was appalling the first time.

So I actually can exercise the restraint not to see your next movie. Because I hate the characters, hate the setting, and can’t physically watch 3D…

This isn’t diegetic to Mushroom Kingdom, though. This is just the state to which the editing on former-Gawker sites has fallen. When Nick Denton reigned over that lost media empire, each website had two full-time editors whose sole job was to make sure writers knew their shit when it came to titles, royal or otherwise.

My least-favourite Muppet scene is the bit from the pilot of that Muppets TV show that flopped wherein a woman talks with her parents about fucking Fozzie.

That’s the nadir right there.

“Her Majesty Princess Peach”

‘Her ’Highness’ and variations thereof. No princess - not even one regnant - is a ‘majesty.’

I think it pobably comes down to music rights more than anything else.

Which is, y’know, no less fucking stupid a reason than ‘we don’t want Canadians specifically to be excited about our movie’ but is grounded in the general utter stupidity of copyright law rather than any targeted animus towards us and our slightly…

... does it? How?

Bucky’s original arm and Thor’s original eye.

But it’s not a good movie for babies and young kids. It’s bizarrely violent and dark. As a parent I’d be furious taking a kid to that film, it’s a goddamn creepy movie.

Not to be ‘that guy’ but the setting of Spy X Family is ersatz Weimar Germany, or at the very least it is ‘between the wars’ - not the Cold War. The cars, the fashion, the architecture: all of it is reminiscent of the 20s and 30s (Post-war Germany didn’t have a lot of nice buildings still standing). When the show does…

Brains from Thunderbirds?

Never seen Monsters v. Aliens but I have always been appreciative of the lead’s cool white hair on the poster.

... shit, that character IS a tribute to Robot Monster. God... damn it...

I finally saw Good Dinosaur a few years back.

I found it hateful - and I mean that in the sense that it angered me and was actively distasteful. Unpleasant, miserable, ugly movie - Cars 2 finally dethroned as the inarguable worst thing Pixar has ever done, and movie has Larry the Cable Guy making tired, borderline-racis…

It is better than the Holiday special, but it’s pretty close. There are some things - Bea Arthur, stoned Carrie Fisher, horny Wookies, a small ocean’s worth of shag carpeting - that the Guardians show just can’t provide.

Fascinating indeed, and I’d also like to thank you for this conversation, which was civil and enlightening.

Thank you! Someone else noticed!

Obi-Wan essentially opens this movie by committing several war crimes. We see him cheerfully get tonnes of clones mown-down with bluntly stupid tactics, and then he fake-out surrenders to the enemy.

The prequel era has a lot to answer for, but turning Obi-Wan into a constantly-quipping smug asshole might rank among the…

“The film, released in 2018,”

Nope!