I really enjoyed the "What if Episode 1 Were Good." Like really enjoyed it. Like I want them to reboot the prequels so I can see that story. But the Episode 2 version was so lame. I felt like the BelatedMedia guy pulled a Wachowski and completely shit on 75-percent of the stuff that was so interesting in the first…

Is working 70 hours per week really a thing now? And if so, what the fuck is wrong with people?

Well, as an actual Hispanic (can't believe we appear to be this rare on AV Club), I can tell you that, generally speaking, the divide is generational (and, again, I'm coming from a Chicano/Mexican-American experience, not a Cuban/Puerto Rican/Comlombian/et.al. experience). Older Mexicans/Chicanos tend to be…

That's not an example of negative bias.

Planet Terror IS the better of the two. Death Proof had the look, tone and feel of an actual grindhouse movie, but Planet Terror was infinitely more enjoyable to watch. As great as the car stunts and Kurt Russell were, 60-plus minutes of banal, insipid, annoying dialogue is still 60-plus minutes of banal, insipid,…

Ah, yes. Witty banter—the opiate of the self-styled sophisticated action movie connoisseur.

Yeah, there are a lot of people out there who hate the Raimi films and think the MCU is the greatest film series ever. It's like, they basically just cribbed Raimi's entire style and removed meaningful personal stakes for the heroes. But…OK. Little fucks.

Agreed. Not a great movie by any means. But there are worse ways of wasting your time.

Agreed. But Sandler's become the whipping-boy de jour of the entire film-going community. Some of his films are utter garbage and are exactly what people call them.

Outside of those of us who spend significant time online on sites like these, most people are only vaguely familiar with the idea of "movie reviews." Traditional marketing has much more effect on most people. Look at Mad Max. It's got an almost 100-percent tomatometer and it's still not making nearly as much money as…

Right, but which MCU movies, for example, have done anything to transcend their genre? Yeah, most westerns were shit. But you still had High Noon and even Rio Bravo and The Searchers and dozens of others that tried to be about something. Which MCU movie has tried to be about something? It's sort of worth dealing with…

I think his criticisms go a little deeper though. Like, what I'm getting out of it is that a lot of media doesn't mean shit anymore. Part of what makes, say, Mad Max (both past and present) so awesome and interesting is that you leave the theater thinking about shit. When you leave Age of Ultron, the world has been…

Whedon has actors who quip, repeatedly. Some people mistake that for characterization.

Bold move, Cotton….

First Transformers was a decent movie. Not great. But I'm smug enough to feel that I can tell something about a person based on their reaction to it. You slap Bay's name on something and people automatically flinch. But he's got a handful of quality movies (and a handful of turds, as well).

Devin's the biggest Marvel apologist. Literally. They can do no wrong as far as he is concerned.

My issue with the article was more that the author was saying—by proxy—that warped/damaged masculinity is the domain of the impoverished. I mean, she didn't come out and say it, and if asked, I don't think that's what she was trying to imply. But that's kind of how it came across. As if rich and middle-class dudes…

Gold digger is not misogynistic?

Uh…. I'm not so sure about that. Darth Vader didn't really have a persuasive point of view, for example. Either did Mr. Blonde. Or Bill the Butcher, who was racist. What did Biff Tannen say that made a whole lot of sense? Nurse Ratched? The shark in Jaws?

Yeah, it's almost as if Batman fights solely to maintain a corrupted society. I mean, even Liam Neeson has some good points in Begins. Batman's an asshole, but we root for him solely because he doesn't kill people.