I was really distracted by the pretty radical change in Lenny from the early episodes, when he really seemed belligerent and authoritarian. From everything he had said, it sounded like he despised everything around the niceties of 'selling' the church, including the baptisms, and did not seem to appreciate Sofia's…

If anything, it makes me more nervous about this film than anything else I've heard, including the reshoot hysteria.

Instead of regurgitating links, maybe we can try provide more context, yes? I recall quite a lot of press about Lucas's criticsms of Force Awakens. I don't recall him saying he "really liked it" himself, but I do recall quotes like this:

I've gotten leery of mystery-box series mainly because it's become pretty clear that, by and large, these series have no real vision for where to take the story or take a reasonably good story that can be told in 2-3 hours and pack it with filler to drag it out to 10 episodes (or several seasons!). I stuck through…

I almost feel like any "Avatar" story on AV Club is a bit of a troll.
1.) Post any kind of story related to Cameron's "Avatar"
2.) Peanut gallery outrage that this movie is still even remotely relevant.
3.) The "I actually liked Avatar" comment.
4.) %$&*@#!!!
5.) Profit!

Seems comedians on these kinds of shows usually do a bit of both, right? It's just that what they tended to say in the panels usually sounded quite a lot like what they'd say in a sketch. Either way, both the panels and the sketches tended to be crap. Though I remember liking the Wilmore retro sketches.

I really think the show was sunk by the really hack comedians he had on for bit parts and the panel. The episode with Bill Nye was the most glaring example of this, but it was just generally a problem throughout. Somebody, whether it's an informed expert or a reasonably thoughtful comedian, would get totally derailed…

… and just on that, too. Something about all the "wacky" stories of onset antics started ringing a little hollow to me. The tattoo thing calls back to something similar on the Lord of the Rings *after* the trilogy was done. It kind of feels like they were doing these little stunts more to drum up good morale than to…

Especially with that "Fuck Marvel!" uttered at the Premiere, it's like DC's become the Trump of franchise tentpoles. Every new development is shockingly bad, though you know at this point you shouldn't really be shocked. You'd rather be talking about good, competent movies, but you just can't stop gawking and talking…

I always got this 'trying too hard' vibe from the Suicide Squad trailers, so I always suspected they were polishing a turd. For a truly good bait-and-switch, I'd have to say Prometheus and Phantom Menace were exemplary as horrible films with captivating trailers.

I just never understood why WB/DC got it in their heads they needed to compete directly with Marvel/Disney. It's almost as if they let the silly fanboy rivalry infect their decision-making: Marvel creates a cinematic universe, so they need to too. Marvel makes an ensemble superhero film, so they need to too. Marvel…

Watching the reviews roll in on Rotten Tomatoes, it's been odd, almost spoOOooky, how the Top Critic reviews have clung to 50%. It's like, after all the acrimony, this movie ended up caught in that nether world between good and bad movies. It's un-bad! (Or un-good, as the case may be.)

In terms of shows I watched all the way through, I'd think most people would be happier cutting off Battlestar Galactica after the Admiral Cain story that starts Season "2.5". Charitably, you can say maybe around early Season 3 after New Caprica.

I got into a few arguments with box-office/industry-watcher types when this movie came out and many insisted that if this movie grossed $1 billion, WB/DC would've felt fully validated in their creative/production decisions and stayed the course on everything, keeping Snyder as a sort of showrunner for the franchise.

Yeah, that was the sense I was getting because I'd be around during these morning-after water cooler conversations, and it just sounded like the show runners were just throwing in random crap. If it at all had sounded interesting, I would've stuck through it, but I was really getting the sense that there was no…

The TV series "Lost" and the movie "Avatar".

Exercise: Look up 'avatar fan club' or 'avatar convention', being careful to tack on 'cameron' so that you get less false hits for that great Nickelodeon series.

There's so much bullshit in entertainment 'analysis' (I read a hell of a lot of it), that any data-driven argument is a breath of fresh air.

In spite of myself I did get into a bit of a thing on twitter with some
entertainment industry journalists and veterans. These people have
generally seemed pretty sharp in their posts/comments, but I can't
believe how often the were parroting the line "If BvS makes a billion
dollars they'll think it's a success."

From what I've heard/read, one of the things to do with hate-watching a movie is to see it *after* the second weekend. The actual details between studios/theaters vary, but by and large the deals are arranged so that the studio gets the majority of the revenue (like 80%) for the first two weeks. This starts tipping…