there is contrarianism spurred by perversity, where your article of faith has to be full commitment to something everybody knows is not true but you have to act exactly as though it is true...and then there is contrarianism that demands perversity, that you upend the natural order and swear that margarine is better…

everyone can get their feet jokes locked and loaded now

DC movies have generally sucked. Rip the band aid off and get them going in a new direction. I think hiring Gunn is a massive win for DC.

“There was absolutely no way Gunn and Safran were going to come out of the “Wonder Woman 3 isn’t happening” and the “Henry Cavill is not playing Superman, but also he’s not going back to The Witcher” stories without looking pretty bad,”

James Cameron ... “There’s something in me! Get it out”

Between 50 and 80 people then marched into Dartmouth General Hospital,

IT WAS CLEARLY BILLY ZANE

I think we all know who did it.

This review is a horribly overwritten mess of what someone thinks a fancy movie review should be written as.

Jeeze, the guy is falling off the shittiest possible decision tree and hitting every branch on the way down.

“Why so many paired and tripled adjectives when one good adjective will do? Why so many adverb-adjective combos, which tend to make writing sound stilted or insincere?”

Be less stupid when you post. 

WE TOLD YOU NOT TO TAP ON THE GLASS!!!

This writer also fawned over Avatar: The Way of Water earlier this week in a piece that was so over-the-top it was almost unbelievable. At the time I thought it might just have been AV Club’s fixation on crowning Avatar the Movie Event of the Millennium, but then this review came along. It’s the same tortured prose…

Boy, I hope when my feature gets made, Tomris Laffly reviews it.

I saw a documentary once where they contained whales for transport in a tank made of transparent aluminum. They should have used that.

13. Everyone dressed nicely at The Game Awards!

Everyone in your replies seems to be skipping the “pennies on the dollar” in your statement. However, I think the only cautionary business tale is ‘don’t invest in used car salesmen that have a well-known track record for fraud’

Good thing it happened in the middle of the night, instead of in the daytime when there would have been lots of people around.

cookie-cutter drop-waists and cliched finger waves