When Sympathy for the De Vile started playing I’m pretty sure I audibly groaned loud enough that the whole theater heard me

(trying to say this as nicely as I can) What’s the easiest way to get to io9/latest layout these days? I don’t want gizmodo latest, I just want io9.

personally I believe it came out and sucked, and valve has since men-in-black’d the planet to protect their rep

Watching the latest movies in my boxers (plumber’s crack and all) was awesome pre-Covid, and it’s still awesome postish-Covid. Tho the moviegoers next to me gave me the ole hairy eyeball. To each their own, right?

Looking at the slate later this year, I think eventually this stuff course-corrects. Right now, people are still working their way through vaccinations so there’s still some gun-shyness about opening movies, but looking at the waters for stuff like sports, everything is going to be up and running on all cylinders by…

Hi again. Please change the io9 page format back to it’s previous iteration. That is all.

The vaccines are not 100% effective, I know, but the CDC has said vaxxed people are highly unlikely to catch covid, and if they do they are highly unlikely to have serious symptoms or pass it on...

another day, another comments section on a pop culture blog where the commenters stumble over each other to hate a bastion of pop culture culture.

Yes. They’re used for “buggies.” We’ll go with that.

With so many distractions, theaters offer an opportunity to just be me and the movie. I don’t have to worry about my phone, my laptop where I could be working, being too loud for my kids, or anything.  It’s just me and the movie.  That’s impossible at home 

After a year and a half of not getting sick, the longest I can remember in all 38 years of it, masks are gonna be with me for a while. As for cinemas, they’re dead to me. I was basically only ever going to Marvel movies anyway. But the experience at home is much more superior. Yeah I’ll miss cheering with the crowds,…

I think I understand your point of view. But here’s mine:

I don’t quite understand this pervasive attitude of: “I’m vaccinated, but I just can’t trust these other people.”

Probably true for most, but I think they’re wrong. Those movies are still better at a theater. I saw Nomadland at the movies. No way I don’t look at my tablet two to three times if I watched that at home. Can’t gasp with 20 other people when she shit in a bucket. Communal, dark room is still superior for all types of…

Really wanted to like it. Found it aggressively insufferable.

Hot Take: It’s okay.

I just didn’t find it very funny. Glad you did, though.

We rag on Chris Pratt all the time—rightfully so—but whenever I rewatch Parks and Recreation, I totally fall in love with Andy Dwyer. It makes perfect sense why people thought he’d make a great movie star. Pratt as an overgrown puppy is always fun, but he’s never gotten that kind of role since—with Guardians being the…

It’s called a hand wedge.  Totally legal.