Send James Cameron down in a sub to find Bin Laden’s body. We need to kill him again for this.

Nope. It’s sarcastic. The word you’re looking for is sarcastic. Which is neither passive-aggressive nor dishonest. It’s just a snarky way to make an argument.

I’m really not sure what you’re going on about. You said that the AV Club was obsessing about Joker. I countered that they’re giving it the normal amount of coverage considering how popular and how praised its been. You have not yet responded to my counter other than to accuse me of being “passive-aggressive” and…

Who’s being passive-aggressive? Your complaint that the site is obsessed with Joker is dumb and I explained why. That’s either neutral or aggressive-aggressive depending on how personally you want to take it.

He’s playing Ray Nicolette. This movie isn’t set in the MCU. It’s set in the ELCU.

I’m going to need some citations for that. They reported on the actual controversy around the film before it was released, reviewed it when it came out, and included it in their worst-of list because that’s what the writers voted on. Now they’re discussing the most nominated movie and whether it’s worthy of that honor…

Movie “mental illness,” as portrayed in films like The Joker and countless others, has no relation to actual mental illness. And “white guy goes crazy and shoots people after everyone is mean to him” is neither deep nor original.

Yeah. Crazy that they’d keep reporting on one of the biggest films of the year when it makes news. And on a pop culture website nonetheless. What weird obsessives.

Exactly. I thought it was fine, but I’ve argued with people about its merits because they proclaimed how brilliant it was.

Sure. Its chances fell a lot over the last week or two with the various smaller awards shows giving it less love, but it was solidly in the running up until then. Gold Derby, which does an excellent job with these things and successfully predicted all 9 Best Picture nominations again this year, had Bombshell in the…

It’s a safe “feminist” movie that centrist liberals can pat themselves on the back about. I’m kinda’ surprised that it didn’t get more nominations, honestly. There was an outside chance that it would pick up a Best Picture nomination.

I only make myself watch the Best Picture nominees each year, so I’m glad it didn’t sneak in there.

One of the dumbest fake controversies in a year of dumb fake controversies. Just an excuse for people who already hated Tarantino to talk shit about him.

Yes. He is indeed the worst. But at least he usually goes away after your initial reply rather than carrying on endlessly like some trolls here.

Completely agree.

I haven’t seen it, but I don’t doubt it. As I said, I thought she was great in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Really gave that film a spark that it needed.

I mean, yeah. Why would you nominate someone for an acting award for a film you didn’t like? Especially when there are so many other actors who were great in movies that weren’t conceptually terrible.

I don’t see them EVER getting out of “bad job” territory. They’re trying to pay lip service to the industry and to the rubes.

Nobody thinks the Academy is truly the arbiter of excellence. But that doesn’t mean we can’t root for them to be better and be disappointed when they do a bad job.

Nothing wrong with her. But it’s a middlebrow infotainment film that softpeddles sexual harassment and glorifies complicit Fox News anchors. I would have been psyched to see her get nominated for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.