I had a similar reaction when reading the other article. I think what the author of that one (Schimkowitz) was trying (and failing) to do was imply that the show (Rivals) was trying to use having two intimacy coordinators as a cynical marketing ploy rather than that they genuinely needed two and/or out of genuine…

...he meant it exactly the way literally everybody took it and complained about.

Yeah I gave up after my second response. Murray is doing a better job with him, anyway. Thanks for the head’s up.

I’ll never forget Tarantino’s reaction to the reporter pointing out just how few speaking lines—or minutes onscreen for that matter—Robbie has in OUATIH. It definitely felt like a case of “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

What do you mean, “Clint won”? He lost! He was trying to sacrifice himself, too. The writers write the characters, yes, but they wrote both Natasha and Clint as wanting to sacrifice themselves for the other, because they were besties who truly love each other, which, by the way, I have always thought was pretty cool.…

Could it be because Pressly played a redneck on TV and in movies? Joy on My Name Is Earl is probably her best-known role; she played the main character’s redneck girlfriend in Joy Dirt, too. I mean, she’s from North Carolina, so she might have that energy on her own.

The fact that this terrible thing that was done to her without her consent contributes to why Hawkeye’s life is more valuable than hers (he has a family) is a double blow.

She chose to die, that’s true, but she fought Clint for the right to go over the cliff because he had a family to go back to and she didn’t. As we learned in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, she’s incapable of having children, thus her life is determined to be worth less than his. She sacrificed herself to save the world, but…

Yes. When I said “mostly” that was the one exception that came to mind. I’ll admit it was good and she’s good in it—just not enough (for me, personally) for all of the hype that surrounds everything that she does. That I *still* don’t get.

I love Gerwig’s work. I think Gosling is a fine actor. I’m on record as saying that I don’t see what everyone else sees in Robbie (certainly not BAFTA giving her a lifetime retrospective at 32). So far I’ve seen her in either mostly disappointing popcorn movies or in ensemble casts where she’s outshined by others.…

Poe’s Law strikes again.

Dude’s only 60. He’ll get bored. He’ll come up with a loophole. Or he’ll say, “Fuck it”. Or, “Did you think I was serious?” Or, “Yeah, I meant it then, but things change”. Or whatever. In any event, he’ll make a 11th, 12th, 13th, how many ever more films down the road. It might be a year later, a few years, or ten…

There are medications and treatment for your condition.

Oh are we finally swinging back around from the neopuritanism that gripped this site and a large swath of its commentariate for the better part of a decade? If so, maybe not all is lost.

That kind of annoying phrasing has been rampant at other sites (e.g. BuzzFeed, Cracked) for years. I hadn’t noticed it creep into AVC content until fairly recently. That and the whole, “Hey, let’s publish a listicle a day because that’s what gets engagement” approach to content. Just more evidence of how this site is…

What an odd fucking comment.

Then again, their first album is nearly 40 years old by now, so this might say more about me getting old than anything else.

All true.

Thank god Morrissey kept it classy. I was afraid we’d have another dismissive comment about Rourke being just a “session musician”.

Two overrated performances in a twenty years career of otherwise complete shit, and it's well documented that she’s a horrible person irl. Fuck her.