It’s original in that it isn’t tied to an existing IP, but at least from the trailers, the plot is far from original. “Jaded hero finds his humanity again by escorting special child through many dangers” is a tried and true trope, with several examples from just this past year. 

That’s my problem with this movie (at least from what I’ve seen). Nothing makes it seem to stand out from your usual bleak future humans vs. robots fare.

I’m thinking of four letters, arranged in a specific order.

Wow dude super epic.

He’s not wrong...I just don’t know what we can expect anyone to do about it. Auteur films (Captital C Cinema) still get made, but I don’t know that they’ll ever reach the level of recognition to compete with franchise blockbusters when studio execs see everything in terms of dollar signs.

I feel bad for DJ Shadow. An incredible producer, but I can’t think of anyone else whose amazing debut has been as much of an Albatross as Endtroducing has been for Shadow. Private Press was great, but ever since then, it seems his goal has been to get as far away from anything resembling Endtroducing as possible. The…

My family made many trips up I-95 from FL to PA in the summers and winters of my youth. We stopped there exactly once. It was a trip where it was just my dad, my brother and I, and I suspect if my mom had accompanied us (I forget why she didn’t) we never would have stopped. It was bleak, even then (must have been over…

This is your problem right here. Every rest stop is gonna be a nightmare on busy holiday travel weekends. I remember driving down from college on Thanksgiving and passing the state-run Florida Turnpike rest stops, they looked like a Where’s Waldo picture there was so much chaos.

Oh god a person on the internet called me unintelligent.

This is the most absurd take I’ve seen so far so thanks for that. If the likes of Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones (prior to Sandy Hook) can successfully argue that their brand of vitriol is “entertainment” you’d be hard pressed to convince anyone legally that a literal comedian doing a comedy routine is beholden to some…

Yeah, like “don’t let people know that you’re enjoying your life” is weird as hell.

They’re now claiming they can finally start using NFTs for their intended purpose, which is...something something contract or signature authentication or something something I dunno. It’s alluded to in this article. There is apparently some magical valuable “use” for NFTs beyond just overcharging people for a…

I think Paulina Alexis absolutely deserves an Emmy. Her acting is understated but extremely effective, and when she pushes to the front it leaves such an impact.

They didn’t in the headline thankfully, but it was literally the first line of the article. But I do cut them some slack; as others have pointed out , it is the episode title (not that I read the episode titles if I can help it).

I liked the original Zahn trilogy, and even the later Zahn duology, but I gave up on most of the EU after reading one too many clunkers. Hated Courtship and Darksaber especially, and never even got through the Corellian trilogy, as I remember just thinking “PLEASE, SOMETHING HAPPEN”.

I’m surprised honestly that he hasn’t been celebrated for playing on the emotions of white liberals, exploiting them by conjuring tales they can tut-tut about.

Sometimes I think people like Barsanti would be happier just reading a Wikipedia synopsis of the show.

Thank you! People need to stop retconning the EU as being bad from a logical standpoint. A lot of it was just bad from the standpoint of being bad. The books you mentioned in particular are just crappily written. And plenty of others were just plain boring.

I still don’t know that it rises to the level of scandal that sites like this are trying to make it out to be. “Comedian embellishes stories for applause” just doesn’t elicit outrage in me. I don’t need to turn to a comedian’s stories to find examples of the type of bigotry Minhaj talk’s about in his standup…

You got way too mad about the “Far Far Away” thing.