Yes, that’s exactly what the guy I responded to said, and I agreed with that. Empathy isn’t encouragement.

I just wrote a lengthy comment above, https://www.avclub.com/1848741221 if you didn’t see it, but the tl;dr comes down to “I do think Chris Rock’s joke provoked Will Smith, and it triggered the wrong choice in a fight-or-flight reflex.”

Okay, let’s try this on something that’s NOT A PHONE because that crashed as I was finishing up my reply.

I fully understand why Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. I do legit believe Rock was punching down and it was a shitty joke.

Man, reminds me of the time I rewrote “You Oughta Know” in iambic pentameter...well over a decade ago...I’m old.

“Orchestral arrangements” also works.

I bought mine with Walmart last week and was surprised to see that I was able to get one.

It’s a step up. I remember once they only had a couple pairs of socks to share amongst themselves.

That’s the start of the third paragraph, yes.

Actually we did.

Haven’t watched the video but if Fiona doesn’t say “Get into my swamp!” in this show then what were the writers even doing?

They did mention other models, like the La La Land fiasco not leading to better ratings the following year, and the spike in viewership right after both the slap and Will’s win, though. So they’re accounting for things.

Hired goons?

I mean, dude, the first six words of the comment to which you were replying

I feel like only WotW and NTtD really qualify under that. YKMN and AWtD definitely don’t, Skyfall is a solid maybe. I don’t think any of Brosnan’s movies had that—certainly not Die Another Day, but we can debate the other three (GoldenEye is more too brassy to be a ballad and TND and TWINE have more of a smokey bar…

I loved “No Time to Die” (see my other comments in this article), but don’t you dare insult “You Know My Name” as “weak.” It slaps.

Disney had to submit a song before the movie was released, and “Dos Orguitas” was, on paper, the Oscar-bait: non-English language ballad, acoustic, encapsulating a lot of the themes of the movie.

Can’t tell you why I liked “No Time to Die” but not “Writing’s on the Wall,” but I did. I totally got the same “Whatever” vibe for the latter, but the former was more along the lines of “Skyfall” for me, where it absorbed me.

Original statement wasn’t a comparison, it was a “these two action/sex scenes were the SHIT and nothing else was like’em,” but I knew that statement to be false and added another one to the library.

*coughShoot’EmUpcough*