They convince “taxpayers” that it’s actually the poor who are ripping them off and that vindictively severing a valuable and needed service is an altruistic act, as they’re “lowering your tax burden” AND forcing those lazy deadbeat layabouts to get jobs and “contribute to the economy” so they can pay taxes of their…

I never said there was any virtue in separating the art from the artist. I simply said everyone should make their own ethical choices and draw their own red lines. You can also still appreciate, and study, an artist’s body of work, and recognise its importance to art as a whole, while also acknowledging how very awful…

But also: stop expecting actors to be role models. They’re not. I enjoy some of Scarjo’s performances (incidentally, her best work is in Allen’s movies). I have no use for her views on MeToo, politics, etc.

Well, I already posted mine on the AVC’s list-I would put an episode of The Good Place up there, but not this one. I still think “Dance Dance Resolution” is the strongest episode of the show-tonight’s was great though.

Hillary has made all sorts of missteps, no question there. She won the popular vote (feels like this needs to be mentioned every time), but her campaign strategy was dumb to practically ignore Wisconsin and Michigan so here we are. She would have been a great President, but here we are.

Too bad that it wasn’t President Hillary Clinton meeting the Royal baby.

“Dig up, stupid!”

Nothing says fighting the patriarchy like calling a random young woman a “fucking bitch” amirite ladies

Basing it on the fact that rich Americans have renounced citizenship before when the reward was high enough

You’re not wrong. It’s just that I regret I have but two shoulders to shrug at the problem. It will cause difficulties in revenue calculation?

I mean, she spends the money to make one single campaign ad, and then these billionaires lashing out give her the material to make ten more just highlighting their whining. There are less than a thousand billionaires out of like 230 million voting age Americans. I don’t know how these people came to labor under the…

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

Well, a big part of the show is that she is fucked up and the show is her journey to realizing and owning up to it. I think that fact that she’s imperfect and selfish at times while caring and sympathetic at others makes her more real and relatable.

While I really enjoyed Fleabag from the start, I do think it’s a work that deserves consideration as a whole. Coming to the end of the first season and looking back over it is a much different experience than taking it episode by episode. But, I watched one episode of Modern Love and noped right out of there, so I…

As a Gen Xer, I just want to point out that I was anti-Boomer way before it was cool.

Besides the fact that there’s no evidence and she changed her story about three times, Broaddrick wasn’t even believed by Kenneth Starr!

Why the fuck would I want to go to the theater to watch an adult-oriented drama? I can watch this from the comfort of my own home.

Again, that is the old guys’ exact point. Movie lovers don’t think all movies without CGI should be banished to streaming. They still value the theatrical experience and believe it should be available for adult-oriented films. This is what the entire argument is about.

Thank you for mentioning what this entire debate is about. It’s not simply the old directors not liking Marvel movies. It’s about the business of movies and how Marvel, through the growing Disney hegemony, is eating up screens at cineplexes and killing the adult-oriented drama.

Yes, lets mock and make fun of the people who created Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas for not liking movies like Ant-Man.