Yeah, I didn’t mention the M:I series because they seem to have carved their own identity (i.e. Tom Cruise’s studio-financed suicide attempts).

People keep saying this, but the camp flavor of Bond is what all its imitators aim for. Do you really want Bond to be on the same level as a Fast & Furious/Charlie’s Angels/xXx/Kingsman movie? What can a “fun” Bond movie do that those franchises haven’t done already?

Jay Leno is white, and there are currently racist white people in America. There is racism perpetuated by white people this very moment. No amount of sensitivity training is going to erase those facts. Ergo, by your own dumbass logic, Jay Leno’s joke is racist.

“America’s Got Talent has a long history of buzzwords for the exact opposite of the behavior that we’re being accused of. The thing that we’re being criticized for has a perfectly reasonable justification that we’re also gonna claim is something people actually like about us. NBC and the producers take this kind of…

There’s this bit in 21 Jump Street where she’s fighting Jonah Hill and she (wrongly) assumes it’s the kind of fight where they’ll suddenly start kissing, and I guess that’s the kind of thing that can make me instantly crush on an actress.

Do spellcasters have doctorates where you’re from, which I’m guessing isn’t an English-speaking country seeing as your name is Sbusico?

“I learned it by watching YOU, AVClub!”

I dislike TLJ, but I’m not sexist, I swear! I just dislike the new female character, dislike the other new female character, dislike the part where a third female character used awesome magic powers, dislike the fact that a male character got one-upped by a female character, dislike the fact that a different male…

That’s a good point actually. Instead of John Connor, there’s now a new leader of the future war whom Not-Skynet goes to the trouble of sending a Terminator back in time to kill. If this leader is not winning the future war, there’s no point in all these time-travel shenanigans.

If there’s one thing about Superman that Justice League got right, it’s recognizing that Henry Cavill has an absolute heartbreaker of a smile and that he should be a little more cheerful about the fact that he’s Superman.

“Intergalactic tourists” now, izzit? So this ship is taking a jaunt to Andromeda, huh? Maybe swing by the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds? Come within waving distance of the Triangulum Galaxy too?

Steven Brust parodied this in his Phoenix Guards series. At one point, the author goes on a long, ranty digression about authors who go on long, ranty digressions.

You don’t have to like my cooking. But saying it’s not food is being particularly dickish.

Yes, there are “dictated” elements to make them fit together, but those rarely supersede individual plot.

Who said anything about “challenging”?? Since when is that an indication of quality for a movie?

This is a stupid argument and Scorsese is being a jerk by using it. It’s especially annoying that he goes the “hey, ain’t a damn thing wrong if you like the thing I just said is unworthy of its own medium, you go do you” route.

I’d say the metaphor would be like the chef of a 5-star restaurant coming into a mid-scale burger joint and dismissing the widely beloved cheeseburger by saying, “This isn’t food. It’s literally inedible. It’s more like toothpaste, being a thing that you also put in your mouth.”

Iranian Islamic cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi’s bizarre insistence that women dressing immodestly was causing earthquakes

That’s not how Kinja works. As of writing this comment, he’s got 27 stars, whereas the earliest replies (that all disagree with him) get over 100. He’s got the top comment not because it’s the most agreed-upon, but because it’s got the most replies.

You’re one of two people to reply with Canada, which honestly made me laugh at what Americans think a nanny state is.