While I agree with most of the people who are arguing against you, I did think they were being a bit hard on you. Until you decided Mama Mia is somehow brain-dead in comparison to a movie that mostly revolves around flying, kicking and the occasional wisecrack. Aren’t they essentially the same thing? Except dancing…

So two time Eagle member? Three? I don’t even want to know.

Oh, I’ll give you that. If anything, he’s the *most* tolerable of people who have ever been related to the Eagles. Maybe in a grudge match with Jackson Browne. Nevertheless, we’re talking real atrocity here.

I mean, it’s at least a toss up if you consider how much longer one-time Eagles member, Joe Walsh, has been inflicting misery on the American public. 

Maybe it’s not a meme? Plenty of stories don’t have life and death stakes. That’s great! What’s a bit preposterous is when you have twenty movies in a row where the easy crutch of “possible death” is hanging over the proceedings as part of the stakes when you know full well the movie will never go there.

To each their own but it makes sense to me. As a person who has made a living in music, a fan of Marvin Gaye, and a person who definitely does not enjoy Thicke, I’m actually on his side. I personally didn’t think his song was a musical rip at all aside from the general vibe of it. The feel and the rhythm surely share…

There’s plenty of stakes possible in drama without death. Which is why it would be great if any of these movies stumbled across them without, you know, introducing death for the cheap thrill of stakes only to reverse it after the fact. The problem isn’t the lack of death. The problem is the lack of conviction. 

That’s the exact problem I have. If it wants to be a dumb, dark violent soap then by all means, do it. But they haven’t found that fine line to walk. The show apparently wants to have it both ways: it wants to be art-damaged fine art filmmaking and prestige messaging without, really, having anything to say that lives…

I actually agree that the last couple episodes have at least made some effort to, uh, be a television show. And this is coming from somebody who loves aimless, plotless films.

Oh yeah. Good point.

I think I’ve rarely seen a show drop off in quality so much from a promising first season to a terrible second since, I don’t know, maybe Homeland? But that show already started a strong downhill slop halfway through season one so at least you could see it coming. 

Early Mac was definitely far more successful in the UK than the States but it’s way off base to say Rumours wasn’t successful there. It’s by far their highest selling record in the UK, and is one of the highest selling records all time in the UK.

I dunno. None of this makes any sense to me. The show works (like much comedy does!) because the lead character is a more vanilla tone for the rest of the crazies to bounce off of. That’s sort of what makes everybody else shine the way they are. Chemistry is a funny thing.

The article isn’t completely wrong. Odds are you, you are. Just because somebody’s terrible actions have an end result that is favorable, it doesn’t retroactively make them good decisions. Even this basic point aside, you’re likely mathematically off. It would be a safer assumption that Star-Lord fucked up 14million…

While what you’re saying regarding Annie Hall could be factually accurate (I’m not sure, but it sounds plausible and I’ll go with it), it’s not really the same situation at all. Annie grossed many multiples of its budget, was sensation, the subject of endless flattering media and cultural cache, and finished in the…

That’s not really the point or the implication, however. Moonlight and Shape of Water were both critically beloved *and* profitable films. They were successes in every way, because they were low budget pictures and performed well. Blade Runner has the stink of “box office failure” on it. That’s a very different…

THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE! I refuse to believe it.

It’s too bad Bill Murray never got a chance to play him when he was younger.

He’s Matt Lauer. It’s not “most offices” and he’s not in a cubicle. Any high level exec on earth, or even middle management is going to have a lock on their office. There is literally nothing surprising about that.

Is this a spoiler about a new planet in Force Awakens? I can’t click, I’m too worried something will be ruined.