Who cares if it’s enlightening, as long as it gets my tight sound-bite on whatever entertainment-news network I prefer! Maybe then I can keep my job next year!

Hey, if you’re accusing a company of virtual slavery, you’ve GOT to show the equivalent of galleys with the rowers chained to their benches and starved. (Never mind that’s a Hollywood fiction. They didn’t use slaves, and you don’t get much pull out of someone who’s starving.)

What exactly would you have had the government change 5 years ago?

Everyone I know working at Amazon is generally happy, doing engaging, dare I say, fulfilling work. They make six figure salaries and have time off and benefits as is normal in their country of work.

The film has zero stakes. Nothing of substance happens to any of the characters, and none of them experience anything that feels like growth or understanding.

Oh you mean Amazon doesn’t purposely go into poor neighborhoods and leave expensive packages laying around to bait people? They just deliver things people paid for and want to help those same people not lose those items they paid for to criminals. Fucking monsters! 

And like I sympathize with workers everywhere, but sometimes jobs just suck you know?

There are tons of posts by others that detail this thinking, but here’s a few:

Are.. you comparing the delivery drivers to the people who work in the warehouses? Dehydrated and hungry? Really? Hard to get through the rest of the article when you start off with that. Even assuming IF they didnt have time for breaks, which is not true, there is nothing stopping them from bringing snacks and drinks…

Baiting a package thief by having an Amazon box at my front door is exactly like baiting a car thief by having my car parked in my driveway. 

The Last Jedi is not only objectively bad as a middle, but it’s objectively bad as a story. Poe, Finn, and Rose spend most of their screen time getting the Resistance killed. They survive only because Holdo and Luke sacrifice their lives to buy time for Rey to rescue them. Kylo Ren kills his remaining father figures,…

At this point any major retailer I go to has a ton of foibles so I’m don’t feel any more guilty going to Amazon than I do going to Target or Home Depot.

Reasonable analysis. It also didn’t do anything to establish what the heck was going on with Republic/Resistance/First Order geopolitics or why the apparent size of the military force for these supposedly galactic superpowers is about a dozen ships a piece.

Can we stop pretending that the term “fan service” is such a broad term as to be completely useless?

We want to be shocked, surprised, thrown off-guard, have things recontextualized, and be challenged as fans when we sit down in the theater, but the problem with both JJ and Rian’s takes on the material is that they’re so dissimilar that they don’t feel like integral parts of a larger connected story. JJ so wholly…

The Last Jedi was an objectively bad middle to a trilogy. It abandoned ideas set up in the first movie (Who are Rey and Snoke?) It contradicted previously established canon (the force doesn’t belong to the Jedi, and the Jedi aren’t special) but also itself (only Leia survives the explosion she was in, presumably…

Good to know incels and black people have something in common.

And now for this disclaimer: We’ve known from the start that this would die in the senate. Nothing has changed. It will still die in the senate. The precedent will be set that this conduct is actually okay in the eyes of the “deliberative body,” and we will all be exactly where we were six months ago--and six months…

All Is Lost should be on here.

Sorry but that’s absolute nonsense, Zero Dark Thirty does none of those things. It’s easily the best film made about the Bush Jr era