The problem is in the pernicious and perennial nature of these tropes, as well as their kneejerk defenders, not that any individual repetition of them must be necessarily awful or inexplicable in themselves. Each individual instance is always going to have some justification like you’ve given, and they may even always…
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Doesn’t have to be very. Spartacus is 62 years old. For Gen Xers, that would be like being familiar with, I dunno, Howard Hughes films, and not through The Aviator, either.
Sure, this is the AV Club, but, man, how many of us of all ages have actually dared sit through Gone With The Wind, ya know?
I’d get it if DC weren’t fine with Family Guy or myriad “Not Another” movies. Hell, Pete Holmes had a significant amount of his career focused on taking the piss out of the Christian Bale Batman, and I guarantee you he never licensed it, any more than he licensed the X-Men or Street Fighter characters he parodied on…
Even then, Turok and Turok 2 were the superior couch multiplayer FPSs for the 64, simply because of the diversity of the weapons and the campy silliness of the characters. My brother used to screech “DIE BY MY HANDS” as he descended upon us in raptor form. Oddjob pales by comparison.
Might be in the minority here, but I am unreasonably excited for the re-release of Pilotwings 64. Smooth jazz cruising around sort-of-America in your hang glider was pretty damn chill back in the 90s.
As a dude who likes the show, I’ve noticed that as the general case, too. It’s literally like the guys here who don’t like the show genuinely have no hooks with which to grasp onto the show’s content.
Because Wong was the one who brought the suit as a cease-and-desist, not Blaze’s audience members, who, let’s be clear, until the demons, seemed pretty chill and even bored by it. She’s also not a district attorney. Reckless endangerment and kidnapping aren’t civil torts, which Walters would be able to cover, but…
Part of it is him still wearing the clothes he wore before his heart attack. He’s a skinny kid wearing fat kid clothes, like a 7th grader wearing skater clothes a size too big because he thinks it’ll make him look bigger instead of like he’s wearing a tunic. It reminds me of She-Hulk, where the lead character is…
It seems the critic here, clearly someone who liked Clerks and Clerks II, is someone who actually likes Smith’s work but finds this fails by comparison. I’m guessing a lot of the “Well, you’ll like it if you like Smith” reviews are by people who actually don’t like his work, but don’t want to smack down one of the…
It was a comparison. You can not like Rings of Power for any reason. But if you don’t like it specifically because of the racial makeup of the cast (which is the actual issue at hand), and you’re uninterested in the origins of that thought, then at the very least you should consider the company your opinions keep.
The Mummy (and to only a slightly lesser extent its sequel) were two of the biggest blockbusters of that era. It actually performed well against the friggin’ Phantom Menace, and a large part of that was Fraser’s career defining role. This was surrounded by his roles in successful Disney films like George of the Jungle…
A bizarre take, considering that, for most observers, it seems her “Diva” behavior consists solely of tacitly not wanting to be associated with divas (i.e. Wilde and LeBoeuf).
That said, of course, no one ever said Hollywood or the media circus around it was a fair or logical place. Just ask Mira Sorvino. We’ll just…
That’s different from the original argument, though, and still debatable. Do you actually have a problem with this particular review? Did the AVClub not breathlessly cover the backstage gossip of potential crap, or receive limp accusations of selling out, even in the Sean O’Neal/Nathan Rabin days?
I’m not saying the…
I’ll pick and choose when said developer makes those ideas public enough (flouting the ToS of his chosen storefront while doing so no less) that I actually have to make a personal moral choice about them.
There. Done. This shit ain’t hard.
They were magically “uplifted” by a wizard, then enslaved. Magic Man’s Burden. And yeah, the “more resilient to pain” thing was a big red flag to me even before I saw the accompanying pictures. That’s the shit you hear from doctors and police in this country.
Interestingly, there’s a similar origin for the Vorta in…
I feel like the “left” you’re describing, at least as it exists in the US, consists of folks who, due to cultural shifts and the mass communication brought by the internet, can simply now be a part of the conversation about what their boundaries and identities are. This is still new for, confuses and, frankly,…
Lovitz is still a Democrat, he just has the typical whining about “cancel culture”. Which for most aging liberals with bad views (see Chappelle, Dave), is simply a symptom of some people’s getting-old-itis, or copying Principal Skinner’s “No, it is the children who are wrong” bit from the Simpsons without a sense of…
Yeah, I agree. Being incredulous to American media at least tacitly supporting the Iraq War during that time is a bit of convenient memory loss on par with pretending that most white Americans actually liked Martin Luther King before he died. Terrible things are often just really, really, really popular in this…