I hate that Louis CK bit, but I also wonder if it was harder to speak out against some of his stupider ideas three-to-five years ago, when he was so BELOVED in online circles. It's crazy that a white director could get away with a film as racist as Pootie Tang in 2001.

Stop it. Nobody who loves DuckTales is clamouring for a bunch of nerd-famous celebrities to do the voices. Some of the vocal stylings of the first trailer were quite off-putting.

Where? When?

Cube isn't being a hypocrite. Why? Because he's used the "n-word" in his songs? His rap has always been about embodying troubled characters, and a big part of the appeal of NWA and his solo material is that it was approached as a street-life variant to folk music. What has he said outside of this theatrical…

Yeah, I'm simply referring to the relevance of what he's saying, not his relevance as an entertainer. There's a lot more dongs on TV now, and a bunch of other celebrities have said the same thing already.

I feel like Lindelof's opinion would have been more relevant two years ago.

I listened to the last one probably about five times the week it came out, and thought it was good at the time. But absolutely none of it has stuck with me.

Better teen movies also directed by Allan Moyle from (sort of) this era:
- NEW WATERFORD GIRL
- PUMP UP THE VOLUME

How old of a teen were you, btw? I was 16 when it hit videotape, and most people I knew found it really pandering and try-hard. But a lot of people 2-3 years younger than me seem to really like it.

This was a point I saw some people try to make, yet were shut down by the Devin Faracis out there, who tried to spin it as "Now these dudebros are saying the first Ghostbusters wasn't a comedy." Of course it's a comedy! But the difference is that the funny element of it is the leads' reactions to the PALPABLE DANGER…

I don't know about the budget (not really my concern), but I do think it would have been a better and more successful movie with a more capable filmmaker than Paul Feig at the helm.

The press itself was really just reporting on audience-hostility toward the trailers, which was kind of newsworthy, as much as prerelease movie buzz is ever newsworthy. But internet voices, and later Sony marketing, overplaying it as some gender-war phenomenon certainly didn't help.

Words have power. Why shouldn't they?

Ice Cube is on the panel next week. I'm curious if this will be addressed.

Or they could continue to use the "n-word" rather than type out the MOST DEGRADING WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR NO REASON.

Is problematic now a moral absolute, and who gets to decide it? Maybe he's problematic to some people and not to others. Same with Maher.

Forgive my ignorance on the subject (genuinely curious), but are Ativan or other drugs capable of bringing out suicidal thoughts in individuals who don't harbour those thoughts already?

I'm with you. Still not sure my brain has fully registered that this really happened.

I feel like this was DC's attempt to make a Marvel movie. I enjoyed it, and it has more narrative coherence than their recent stuff, but it's also more vanilla.