Seriously why are you not covering Chernobyl

You’re still not addressing the way the show has portrayed her as a savior and a hero, both in the clip I linked to and in numerous inspiring speeches she’s given and brief moments of kindness she’s shown to slaves and the downtrodden. You haven’t addressed that the “motivation” for her character’s turn was set up…

I thought this video did a solid job of explaining why the writers haven’t earned the character turn

Ah yes, our opinions about a television show have been fabricated to “misdirect” you, because I’m so “upset” by fucking game of thrones. I haven’t been emotionally invested in Game of Thrones since season 5, but I watch because I’m interested in what happens, the production values are great, and it’s such ac cultural…

That’s a totally understandable reaction to have imo. I think I was just happy to have a villain that was very different from what we’ve seen in Star Wars, especially in the middle of a movie so indebted to A New Hope. 

Are you sure that he was miscast or just that you don’t like the character as written? Like I get not wanting the villain of Star Wars to be a whiny, petulant fanboy who just wants to be like granddad (personally I think it’s the smartest thing they’ve done). But if this was the road they wanted to go down, I don’t…

I agree with pretty much every criticism you can lob at GoT for its past four seasons and there were even signs before then. But I also think GoT is just sooo different from Star Wars, not only because it’s adapted, but because of tone, genre, and focus. GoT, especially in the early years, is intensely political and…

I hate to play the rewrite game, but I can’t help but imagine what these past two seasons would have looked like if the night king was defeated at the end of season 7 and this season was spent entirely on Dany descending into madness, Jaime returning to the dark side, and Cersei being defeated.

It’s totally cool if you don’t like them, because they’re not like the games or they sub in Alice for Jill, but that doesn’t necessarily make them bad movies on their own. Everyone knows Stephen King famously hates The Shining because it’s very different from the book, but that doesn’t change how great it is. I also…

that’s FIVE good Mission: Impossible movies, sir

Marsden is one of those actors like Brad Pitt or Colin Farrell, who are so handsome that they keep getting cast as leading men, even though they’re much more interesting as off kilter character actors

Let Bill Hader direct John Wick 4 plz

King Kong could definitely use a tighter edit, but the decision to make three movies instead of two happened literally months before the first film was going to be released. They hastily recut the first film and added a bunch of filler content with Legolas and Gandalf to pad out the next two movies. Actors from the…

I hate to harp on the kinjafication of this site, but something tells me that in the hallowed pre-Disqus days, you’d be getting a lot more thoughtful responses to your comment and a lot less “TLDR HAHAHAH”

I remember seeing big action blockbusters like Spider-Man in theaters at a pretty young age, but I don’t think Jurassic Park is a great pick to bring a kid to, like jeeeesus. I kept hearing about how Shazam! had some strangely dark moments amidst all the lighthearted fun and, sure enough, a kid started wailing halfway…

It’s weird that movies like First Reformed or Silence aren’t called “faith-based” when they approach faith with more care, insight, and nuance than any movies of Breakthrough’s ilk. I have no doubt the main reason for these reviews going up is because they get the clicks, but Jesse is at least trying to judge the…

Just saw it and I’m really pleased with it through! I think it was clear just from reading the piece that Vikram didn’t mean to come off that way. I just thought it was interesting how his phrasing kind of mirrored Sally’s own self-image

Feel like calling all abuse survivors “cowering doormats” is a bit harsh. I understand what Vikram’s saying, but I think the saddest thing about Sally’s story this week is that what she did was strong, but she can’t see it that way. Leaving is incredibly hard in that type of situation, even under the cover of night.…

Agreed, as much as I love The Last Jedi as an individual movie, it really woulda been good to have the main cast going on an adventure together, since we didn’t really get that in Force Awakens. Abrams is saying Episode IX will have the cast together for the most part tho

To be fair, TLJ was written before Fisher died when the plan was for her to be the focus of 9 (the way Han and Luke were in 7 & 8 respectively). The decision to bring Hamill back was obvi influenced by the need for Rey to still have a mentor figure. And at least force ghosts are an established part of Star Wars. As…