AV Club has always had kind of a too cool for school hipster mentality, but I think that as they’ve aged, it’s soured and become a bit noxious. As you say, disdainful. Like a high school kid bent on edginess, everything has to be held at arm’s length now, lest you be seen liking something. I really miss Emily VanDerWer…

Mostly his readers.

Rotten Tomatoes has been a plague on movie criticism. Shut the website down. People don’t understand what their score means and they don’t intend to learn.

Shows what you know. This author holds only disdain for everything.

Actually, this might be the least-douchiest thing he’s ever written. Completely inessential and pointless, sure, but on the obnoxiousness scale, this really only gets maybe four or five out of ten possible Barsantis.

Ahh, a non-news story that admits as much and also sounds like it was written by someone who holds only disdain for the material referenced. Gotcha.

it’s because all their movies are generic as fuck, no matter what people might tell you with “but what about taika? gunn?..” they all play out the same, with the same beats, quips and muted color palette and the same CG clusterfuck in the third act where the whole movie falls apart.

Okay, but what do those facts actually result in? Can you honestly say the movie would look or feel any different if Killmonger was from Harlem? It’s not like the brief scenes in Oakland are in any way specific to that place.

i would even say the thor thing is a very specific example where they had a franchise that people didn’t seem to like very much, but starring a character they needed to keep, that just so happened to have an actor who had recently proven comedy bonafides.

There’s a pocket community on the internet that is ardent in its belief that comics from the 1970's were awesome and the films should be more faithful to the source material. I read those comics, though, and most of them were nearly unreadable. If, as a director or screenwriter, you go back to that material and…

Ragnarok, yeah, but I didn’t see anything particularly specific about the direction of Black Panther.

in what way was captain marvel a mild failure? it’s the 6th highest grossing MCU movie of all time. it was a huge financial success. 

Captain Marvel made a billion dollars. And Endgame was almost complete by the time it released (they came out like two months apart). Carol’s role was modest in Endgame because she’s insanely overpowered, and for the time being it’s best to keep her on the sidelines and use her as a last resort, lest she become a…

complete first season watched for review

“a love letter to kids today—the generation that will most definitely save the world from global warming, if they don’t die from eating Tide Pods first.”

An impressive rhetorical ability to combine two of the laziest sentiments of the modern internet.

It seems to be exactly what it looks and sounds like: a show based on the dumbest and most superficial aspects of 21st century society.

This review feels, if anything based on the trailer, relatively generous. I do like the art style, but this sounds difficult to watch.

I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my Batman full of German-expressionistic mise-en-scene!

I believe he’s already been christened Robat Battinbat by the internet at large.

Has anyone given a nickname to the Robert Pattinson Batman yet? If not, I would like to offer up ‘Patman’