I reread it recently for a book club. It holds up very well upon rereading.

If they’re so against abortions, why do they keep making these movies?

Lore. Fuck lore. The word has become some terrible form of geek currency.

i understand the pain of the families, but 6 and 9 years (i assume they will be eligible for parole before that) is hardly a slap on the wrist. 

The scale, sure, but I thought they missed the tone of the books completely. 

The others were mostly jabronis, but the witch king almost killed Frodo on Weathertop, breaks Gandalf’s staff, kills the king of Rohan, and was the general at the battle of Pelennor Fields until he got killed by a loophole.

I agree with the Morrison comparisons. I thought it had a bit of it in Season 1 but it really fits with Season 2. But yeah, non-linear narratives and weirdness are pretty common in comics nowadays, even big superhero stuff.  Comics really lend themselves to experimentation I think (the collage/cut-up effect if you…

Yay! More Rian Johnson SW is great news.

The Last Jedi is easily the best Star War since the original trilogy. It’s not even close.

What are you talking about? Amateur filmmakers aren’t being sneered at, these guys who want to keep their self-perceived treehouse girl-free are being sneered at. And why does it fall to the political left to stand up for little people? Where’s the political right when it comes to encouraging amateur filmmakers’…

I suspect also that people made superhero parodies back then because it had never yet been established that the serious (-ish) superhero movie was a viable genre. You’d had the Superman films come and go, Batman was its own thing, but superheroes in general? Risky. So people who liked that kind of thing and wanted to…

There’s painting of a young William H Macy in an attic somewhere.

I didn’t like it at all. The only part I really enjoyed was The Shining sequence.

I have this question every time I hear about men acting awful around women. How do they justify that with their own internal code/logic? No one ever says this behaviour is ok, so I’m assuming it’s an accumulation of “getting away” with these things and that it builds over time...I don’t know, it just seems so against…

this is objectively the kind of comments we get on every film review now.

Terrible gimmick. The last thing I need in my life is more Trump.

The opening race was my least favorite part because it made no logical sense. Anyone who knows anything about video games knows that the first thing people do when a new game is release is try to break it. But somehow I’m supposed to believe that millions of people attempted that race and none of them ever thought to…

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I don’t get why RPO I should on the list. At best it was forgettable and at worst it advocates consuming art for the sake of copying the text rather than to understand the text as well as to imply that only “real nerds” can like nerdy things. It also doesn’t help that Ernest Cline, the guy who wrote the script and the…

I almost never see anyone in the greys, thank AVClub Kinja God, but spotify web player is EXACTLY why kinja needs a downvote button.