People are listing MCU movies they disliked more than Thor, and it’s like, “Why did you watch so many of these fucking things that you didn’t enjoy?”

Nobody with a strong opinion of the MCU has ever seen another movie. Have you ever heard people debate which fast food restaurant has the best fries, and you can tell they’ve never eaten real food? Same thing. If they’re children it’s cute.

As seemingly the world's only fan of Twixt (I own both cuts!), I couldn't agree more. 

I didn’t like it much the first few times I played it, and then I decided to just follow the main quest until I leveled up a bit. It worked pretty well - the game requires a LOT more dialog checks than Fallout 3, but the core missions are pretty interesting, and it lets you see a lot of the map. I will say that when I…

Playing for an hour or two at a time, I finished the main quest and the Broken Steel expansion in about a week and a half. If you pick a couple of weapon skills and consistently level them, you get comically overpowered by about Level 10, which helps. 

They should recast Fielder as Stone's son. It would track. 

What do you mean? The kids are still love the Monkees. And Donovan.

A “fair shake” would be a review that says, “I the reviewer found this album so-so, which obviously means that I’m not trustworthy, which obviously means I will give it the highest possible grade to compensate." That's just, like, math. 

Oh shit that’s right. Sometimes I forget that Dario Argento lived past 1989. And then I get a reminder like this one. And then I resume forgetting. 

France has a very different idea of government “reach” than the United States. For better and worse. 

Twixt is terrific. I would be very sad if every movie was that kind of weird, sloppy mess, but it does what horror movies did in the 70s - plop a star who’s no longer famous in a curious little mind fuck of a story. 

Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, and Janelle Monae. I don’t comprehend Taylor Swift (I also find Beyonce hit and miss, but that’s just me), but I also don’t really comprehend people who are totally stuck on rock music in 2024. Lucy Dacus is the fucking bomb though.

Staz Nair is an anagram of Star Nazi, so apparently he's well cast. 

Andrea Dworkin hasn’t stopped being controversial, but she also wrote an essay centering on Nicole Brown, and it takes far less than 17 hours to read.

Weren't Michael J Fox and Kirk Cameron famous at around the same time? Although credit to Cameron, he's tenacious as a tick. 

Carrie Brownstein also talks about it in her memoir. It's a weird value that's shared by the patriarchy and some (not all) liberal circles. 

It’s the opposite - social media amplifies niche opinions until they seem like consensus, because actual consensus is boring. Watching shitty movies isn’t automatically fun or interesting, but sticking to “good” entertainment is how people end up with  boring shit like Taylor Swift or football or the MCU.

In principle I'd watch Independence Day again, but I'm trying to think of a situation where that would actually happen. I'm not going to pay money for it, and if I saw it streaming for free I would probably scroll down and find something else. I guess if someone else turned it on I wouldn't leave. 

Sorry to Bother You made me wish that every movie included an army of centaurs battling racist cops.

“At last, a use for the cauldron of oil I’ve been boiling in my garret.”