At least once a week, I think of the fact that Mean Girls was the most insane star vehicle ever - it worked for everyone BUT the lead. The movie was essential in massively boosting the careers of FOUR amazing actresses. Seyfried, Caplan, McAdams, and Chabert - all had worked before but the movie blew them each up in…

As a fortunate male with a very good head of hair, I strongly, STRONGLY disagree. I have several female friends who are completely bald, two from alopecia. I do not know a single person in our circles who has mocked them or said anything other than supportive things about how beautiful they are. (I don’t even know…

Can someone send me to another reality? I don’t want to be in this one anymore if this is the kind of stuff I have to see - especially alongside the horrors of war. Or, at least, can the endless Davidson expansion please stop?

As long as the child is out of it, I’m in.  She was uncomfortably young.

The tone of this piece seems to be wildly incongruous with Hurt’s massive significance in film, especially in the 1980s.  This feels like a piece befitting a more minor player.

Hahahahahaha... and you guys wonder why you’re always marginalized.  Have fun storming the castle.

The people in Eastern Europe in Age of Ultron certainly seem like humans.  They die a lot.  Also Civil War.  Also Captain America in general.

I suppose I may be the weird one so there’ s that.  Cartoonish violence is more offensive to me than “real” violence.  

Maybe this is a YMMV thing.  When I watch some dumbass thing like Transformers, I can’t distinguish the death from how humans actually die.  It’s why I think a movie like Die Hard 4 is way more violent than, say, Reservoir Dogs.  

The body count and volume of violence in anything but Punisher is dwarfed by the body counts of several MCU movies (esp. Avengers series).  It might be implied sometimes, but TONS of people die in MCU movies.

I mean, I disagree? I have a strong religious belief in non-violence. I pay close attention. Avengers (esp. Endgame and Infinity War) are not sanitized - people are impaled, choked out, shot, dismembered, disembodied. I think maybe people say that an absence of blood means the violence isn’t there. I do not think that…

I find this baffling, tbh - The MCU isn’t really “kid friendly” (even though every parent I know except me lets their kids watch it) in any way I can recognize.  Thousands of people get killed, billions are vaporized, there is blood all over the place.  And WandaVision and Loki push the boundaries further in terms of…

Since I am wired literally the opposite of this, I have spent a LONG time thinking about this kind of people.  My deeply held suspicion is that they have some unprocessed issue that is so painful, they can’t get past it.  And as they develop their egos, they decide no one can really work through it so it’s no big…

The monoculture is dying and it shows up for everyone differently. Isn’t that it? I don’t give AF about the Olympics anymore or any world sport. But I have a soft spot for movies so I watch this. Most don’t. I’ll never ever watch the Grammys - I once did.

I think the issue is that most of these “shows” aren’t good…

Has the Power of the Dog backlash started?  I adored the movie but I haven’t followed whether it has crested into hate like usually happens with favorites.  I think the film deserves a near sweep of its awards - all the acting, the directing, the picture, and the soundtrack for sure.

Agreed.  I found this baffling. Anderson (like PT Anderson and Tarantino) seems to have become so much better with time.  I am gobsmacked that Jeffrey Wright did not steal a nod.  He should win the freaking trophy for that portrayal.

Given how the modern conservative mood is intent on eviscerating the security state, I am not sure that being pro-CIA aligns with any party anymore.  Seems more leftwing than right, these days.

Come on! Everyone knows that diversity only matters based on what people (in LA and NY) choose to care about today! Little people, get in the back of the line! Yes, back there with older people and ethnic groups no one has heard of in SoHo and West Hollywood.

Thank you. This comment meant a lot to me. As a racial minority and as a liberal, I was fairly shocked at how quickly this turned to bile and anger. I worry that our hyperpolarized society gives no one any room for disagreement, lest we be piled in with the evil other side.  But that only leads to a tyranny of silence…

I am a late stage GenXer.  A Xennial I think they call me.  I hate everyone.