Plus, in terms of the opening, it also has the side effect of making the sight of babies falling to their deaths feel slightly less traumatic.

To be fair, I will be very surprised if the ultimate message of the movie is not an affirmation that Barbie is not so bad after all, that there is a lot of good in her as a symbol. Mattel had to sign off on this, after all, and I doubt they would have done so of the movie was 100% “Barbie sucks!”.

While I get yout larger point, and you are right, I don’t think there is any way they could have made a Barbie movie that is not a deconstruction or satirical in some ways. The Barbie brand is just way too politically loaded for that. When people hear “Barbie,” they don’t just picture a toy like they do with, say, Lego…

American PG-13 means “perfectly suitable for everyone but very young kids, we just don’t want to scare the teens away or anger the puritans much.” Every MCU movie is PG-13, amd these movies are clearly made to appeal to kids. 

Tomorrow on AV Club: The AV Club’s 50 Best Slideshow Lists of all time, ranked

Obviously all such lists are a matter of personal preference but Invisible Sun should be top 5 and if you disagree with me, you’re an idiot.

I’d put “Wrapped Around Your Finger,” “Bring on the Night” and “Bed’s Too Big” a lot higher, and I think “Next to You” is a little over-ranked here. I’d also put “Omegaman” and “Darkness” in the mix.  

“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” at #1????. Gah.

Wait, Deathwish isn’t even on this list? That’s total fail. Holy crap check this shit out:

The Police are one of my all-time favorite bands, but I think I’d put “Tea in the Sahara” on the list of Police Songs I Don’t Care if I Never Hear Again in My Lifetime. I’d put in “Born in the 50's” over that.

People willing to take on the duties (read: willing to take on the title to stroke their own egos) are a dime for two dozen. GOOD mods might be hard to find, but Reddit’s business model only needs for the people who use a subreddit to either a) find the mods acceptable, or b) be willing to start a new subreddit to…

If that was Zod’s strategy, then what the film needed to show was Kal responding to that strategy, i.e. attempting to take the fighting away from the city or even just demonstrating dismay at the innocent people being hurt. Since it didn’t do that, the only interpretation is that the film itself didn’t care about the…

Reddit already makes a ton of money off of users’ free content. This is not a change to their model, merely an extension. The popularity of third-party apps, some/all? of which block out their advertizing, would be an acceptable reason to price their API higher to recoup those lost bits of revenue. Reddit is not a…

Pa Kent briefly provides a bit of moralizing, telling him Clark he is here for a reason and it’s “not to score touchdowns”. And his death teaches Clark there are things his powers can’t fix, rather than teaching him to hide rather than help (or whatever).

Yeah, he’d be a good ‘in’ to that side of the universe, as well as being a part of a slightly different area of it than Green Lantern or some of the other cosmic characters so we could get to see more of the fringes.

Handing an icon and a franchise to someone who hates the actual character surprisingly doesn’t pay off. Snyder just wants to make Injustice.

No argument on that. Reddit, like Facebook, Instagram, Wikipedia, Deviant Art, and even AO3, just hosts user generated content. But we post for free and they host for free so they have to generate money to keep the servers on somehow. Ads are most of that but API access is another valid income stream.

Well, they will continue to let 3rd parties access the API and do exactly what they had been doing - just for a much higher price.

Because some of us became comic book fans after seeing Michael Keaton in that bat suit and nostalgia is a hell of a drug 

Time is weird. Man of Steel feels like it came out a lot more than 10 years ago -- and Mad Max: Fury Road feels like it’s just three or four years old.