I’m sorry, but the one thing you don’t get to do is tell Tom Hanks to go away. Not on my watch.

No, but in a way, we’re all Gary now...

Every time that man steps up to a podium to speak in front of other world leaders, I feel like I’m dining out with the whole family at Applebee’s or something, and our racist, inappropriate, dementia-stricken grandfather is there with us, and we’re all just white-knuckling it through dinner, side-eyeing each other,…

It’s got a pretty middling 62/100 review aggregate on Metacritic and a 5.4/10 aggregate on AnyDecentMusic?, so I dunno; read more reviews, I guess?

I mean, I get where you’re coming from, but at the same time... using a word that has a context and stigma attached to it, even being ignorant to that, doesn’t make it okay. You might as well say retard. Sometimes a generation needs to grow up with the times it exists in. 

What the fuck are you talking about?

Zero likes for any of this.

Ok, “How you gonna name yourself after a damn gun and have a man bun” is a pretty good line.

Nah, it’s actually a useful term. It’s just that, like ‘Fake News’ and a million other terms that began as legit descriptors, horrible bad-faith people have warped it to suit their toxic agenda. I really think it’s high time we stopped looking for ‘red flags’ in each other’s rhetoric and concentrated on looking at…

Yeah, it’s not as if I begrudge AVClub its progressive politics— Kang shares them! But with the mass exodus of actual writing talent from this site, it seems like AVClub’s new writers, since they possess barely a fraction of the wit and insight of the old staff,  have decided to paper over the gap with an incessant…

when the dust settles, this comes out as an unconventional, yet effective way to avoid a conversation with jimmy fallon.

Whatever

Why is that?  Because I responded to points you were making and contradicted them in some way?  You’re entitled to your opinion, but you asked (or implicitly asked) why other people liked the movie, and I told you why, and you can’t accept the answer.  TLDR: to each their own, eh?

“had it not been a Stephen King book, would have been given lukewarm reviews at best”

The Tower of Babel story (from Genesis), and the idea that somehow the Antichrist will use the UN to take over the world (from a 1970s interpretation of the book of Revelations).

“Do something with that, you freak.” Can’t say Conan didn’t ask for it.

chairman of the bored

And what did they find inside his brain?

Clooney and “ER” in general is considered sacrosanct to many self-describing liberals.