Wow, I remember when “clickbait” used to mean a deliberately misleading headline on an article that turns out to be poorly written. Now it just means any subject you don’t want to know about?

This whole “media is bad and wrong for reporting on bad and wrong things” position is a nice high horse to sit on, but honestly? It’s also a pretty ignorant one.

Nightclubs are open again in Taiwan??

So the book was pretty disappointing.

I have had the pleasure of watching this on three different occasions with people who were watching it for the first time.

My personal theory for why the ancient Greeks worshiped such fucked up gods is that that’s what religion was in those days. It’s why all ancient pantheons consisted of gods and goddesses for the same things - the sun, the weather, the ocean, the harvests, etc., because those were things people had no control over. A…

I too feel I am superior to people who like a thing I don’t like.

Netflix gave 2 seasons to Altered Carbon and The Witcher and 3 seasons to Lost in Space, all of which are based on properties with far less critical and fan acclaim than Sandman. Which is very much not part of the thing that you are so determined to express your disdain of.

I judge the two films on what they aimed for rather than how they fell short. QoS aimed to be an examination of how Bond handles grief and desire for revenge; I think it largely succeeded at that in spite of some unfortunately choppy plotting and editing.

Man, for a second there I thought that was Zoe Saldana slumming it on a daytime soap.

Jesus, how many different ways did you misspell “tamagotchi”?

Unpopular opinion: the Casino Royale-Quantum of Solace duology is basically that, and it’s pretty good.

Shailene Woodley is 9 years younger than both Sebastian Stan and Jamie Dornan.

I can’t believe Star Trek Into Darkness regurgitated a story that should’ve been over and done with in its predecessor. Star Trek 2009 portrayed its Kirk as a hotheaded fuckup, who somehow lucked into the captain’s chair of the Enterprise and turned out to be pretty good at it. So what did its sequel do? Start off…

The trailers appear to be selling her as having some deep dark secret that Bond will feel betrayed by. I am cautiously optimistic.

I’m pretty sure that scene in Skyfall wasn’t meant to highlight Bond’s misogyny; I’m betting that Mendes or his screenwriters regretted that scene. How the Craig movies take themselves seriously is to highlight the emotional cost of being Bond, how empty and depressing this life of government-sanctioned murder, casual…

For the Craig Bond films, I prefer them to reach for something higher rather than settle for something lower.

How No Time to Die could fix that would be if Bond realized she could never take the place of Vesper Lynd. I never imagined their post-Spectre relationship would last; he’d drive her away through drink and/or infidelity eventually.  

One of the most truly underrated elements of QOS is Camille Montes, who transcends the label of “Bond girl.” She’s on her own Roaring Rampage of Revenge same as Bond, against General Medrano, who murdered her family and gave her a crippling fear of fire to boot. She gets her revenge - she kills him in a knock-down,…

It was bad, yes, but it wasn’t all bad. If only it had dropped that stupid Blofeld-is-your-long-lost-foster-brother subplot, it would’ve been salvageable. Unfortunately, that was locked in very early on; even Craig liked it and pushed for it.