As someone who lives there, Texas is The South. It’s a very culturally distinct state in some ways, and it certainly isn’t the Deep South, but slavery was legal until the Civil War, they were part of the Confederacy and fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, and Jim Crow was a thing there. It still votes like…

You clicked on this article, and left a comment, giving them a bit of revenue. So in the eyes of the AV Club’s corporate overlords, mission accomplished.

I’m pretty sure that line is satirizing the AV Club’s official stance shown in previous articles that cancel culture isn’t a thing. I doubt the OP actually agrees with that.

Trust me: there is nothing that the internet won’t do bad things to.

Gaston’s been my favorite Disney villain for a while, because he feels more real than any of the others, like you said. Also, he’s just a blast to watch.

Spiderverse didn’t have that, but “Blitzkrieg Bop” was used in Homecoming, so The Ramones did get into one Spider Man film at least.

“But a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way.” Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction

I think most people aren’t actually arguing that it’s unfilmable, just that there is no way that Disney would be able to properly make a film that had that character as a protagonist, just like you said, but they just aren’t articulating that view well.

I would watch the hell out of a Gaston prequel. I could see Gaston being heroic under the right circumstances (although it would still be for selfish reasons).

I don’t even think that mystique is the problem here. I just don’t think that there is a way to make a sympathetic motivation for the act of (checks notes) skinning puppies alive to make them into coats.

Unfortunately, half of the sandwich is rotting and decomposing as well on that day.

I have never really liked open-world action RPGs and am kind of baffled and annoyed by their current domination of the industry. They just seem to try to compensate for the utter shallowness of the story and gameplay by throwing a ton of dull, uninteresting sidequests at the player, confusing quality with quantity. I…

I am that one rare person who loves fetch quests. I seem to be in the minority, though.

Apparently there was a lot of studio interference and production problems, which is why it ended up looking so soulless, although by all accounts the original version of the movie was basically just a less soulless kind of bad.

There is a pretty massive Wonka fandom, actually. The original film bombed, but became beloved by generations of kids on TV and home video.

To be fair, Dolittle was apparently a passion project of Robert Downey Jr.’s for some unknown reason. It fits well within the “do whatever the hell they want” phase, but in the “disastrous vanity project” category of those types of projects.

The sequence of showing what happened to the kids after the tour is actually from the original book. The only reason it wasn’t in the original film was probably because of budget and technical constraints, because showing what Violet and Mike look like after the tour would have been difficult if not impossible to do…

I’m not getting the complaints about traversal from Skyward Sword. That part of the game was mostly fine? It’s got way better fast travel than, say, Wind Waker, which everyone showers with praise now for reasons I don’t get. At most you spend a minute going across the sky then you can go almost exactly where you want…

Unlikely. Disney doesn’t want anything with a rating higher than PG-13 on Disney Plus. They’d probably put them on Hulu, which is where they put their more adult material.