Counterpoint: “This movie is not bad” is a really shitty splash quote.

Wait... people are spoiled and entitled for not paying to see a movie that they’ll be able to see at home for free in three months? A movie that... doesn’t look all that great? A movie that is part of a franchise that is basically either dead or on life support? A movie whose makers have indicated isn’t relevant to…

Four words: Robert Downey Junior. Playingtherolehewasborntoplay.

Meh. It’s more likely that people didn’t buy tickets to watch the last embers of a trash fire because they don’t want to spend money on something they’d rather watch at home.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d watch Gal Gadot sing ‘Imagine’ on Zoom, but I don’t know that her being gorgeous in front of Jimmy Kimmel was gonna sell…

I think you’re probably mostly wrong... Christian Bale is ‘my’ Batman. I don’t think I know ten people who feel differently if they have an opinion at all. I can’t think of a single reason why Michael Keaton’s Batman would have brought anyone who wasn’t all in on DC to a theater.

Same. I can’t help but wonder if that was an attempt to feed the beast called nostalgia; it would have been fine as the Boba Fett-related chapters of the Mandalorian.

I LOVE being able to decide that I want to eat sushi or palak paneer or oysters and then, within roughly 45 minutes, eat any of those things. Child-me would have vomited in his own mouth at the thought of eating those things.

I LOVE being able to reach in my pocket and removing the purchasing power to buy an airline…

I agree with you, conceptually, but your definition of “populism” only supports fascism. It erases all progressive populist perspectives. There are plenty of “populist” perspectives that are forward-looking, rather than revanchist. Anyone calling for universal pre-K or universal background checks or comprehensive…

This part. Separating his romantic engagements - and his media vomiting around those engagements - from the equation, my general preference for John Mayer’s output is 98% guitar player/2% backing vocalist. And that 2% is me not wanting to completely eliminate him having any agency.

“Submarine” is a weird word to describe a LaCroix can run by a PlayStation controller, but I like it as a linguistic flourish!

I didn’t even count the syllables to verify. Take your star, with my dry-heaving.

It might be time to accept the possibility that “we” don’t know which Mandalorian is the titular Mandalorian. It might be time to accept the possibility that there was never only one. titular. Mandalorian. That will make it easier to focus on the storytelling and the show itself rather than whether or not Din Djarin…

There you ago again, thinking you’re showing your sophistication by breaking the centuries-old news that popular media is really storytelling about the immediate history that predated it and influenced those who created it... You’re basically one Dictionary.com link to the definition of ‘allegory’ away from…

You need to get over yourself is what you need to do.

If his full name wasn’t listed in this article, would you know him as anything other than “Dr. Luke?”

They’re similarly fluid when they talk about “law & order...” The protection and service is not intended to be universally offered. The justice is not expected to be broadly applied.

Maybe you’re not well positioned to guide me in how to Internet. I made a joke and you felt it was necessary to “school me” with Afghanistan and Vietnam references, with no knowledge that I had family in uniform in both of the conflicts you referenced.

How about we gavel this friendly back and forth?

In case you haven’t figured it out: I’m kind of a big deal!

(Or, removing my tongue from my cheek: The Creed 2 release date is on the Creed 2 Wikipedia page...)

Let’s see if I have this right:

A trap that doesnt go as planned? Gasp! No way!