It’s extraordinarily arrogant to impose on hundreds of people and effectively tell them that what you have to say is more important than what they have chosen to do with their time.

Attaching pockets to a person’s nude thighs is also just cruel.

Yeah, if we’re going to decide that copying stuff from other genre movies is a problem, Star Wars is pretty fucked in general.

I think you meant Nia DaCosta, not Ava DuVernay, which is . . . less than ideal. Still, I think your overall point is not wrong.

If Barsanti was making a good faith argument, he’d grapple with the fact that Wonder Woman 1984 was widely hated by critics and audiences alike. What tells you that he’s trolling is that he passes right over the reception to 1984, like we all imagined it.

Look, if all the other members of your squadron keep dying, eventually you just fill the squadron with yourself.

Studio interference tends to make movies more generic and less weird, as the studio tries to make the movie more appealing to a mass audience. That was the opposite of Wonder Woman 1984's problem.

No big studio movie is just one person’s fault, but I think we can be pretty confident that Jenkins bears a significant amount of the blame. Unlike the original Wonder Woman, Jenkins was the director and writer on 1984. The movie is misconceived in so many ways that, unless Jenkins wanted to make an entirely different…

I guess it does, in fact, take one to know one.

If you don’t know about doing noses, you aren’t cool enough to do it.

The whole reaction just makes clear that conservative men expect women to cater to their boners all the time.

It’s amazing to me how often studios telegraph that a movie is bad before it is released.

More gambling addicts should become generational basketball stars with enormous endorsement deals, since it really seemed to help Jordan stay out of too much financial trouble. I don’t know why people keep recommending therapy and stuff, instead of just telling addicts to become one of the best basketball players of…

Anatomy of a Fall was just nominated for a bunch of Oscars, including Best Picture, and won Best Original Screenplay. I imagine Neon’s feeling comfortable with where it focused its promotional efforts.

At least Ross isn’t the actual one being prosecuted, so he can be forgiven to some extent for not knowing that talk of leaving the country would get Tate in trouble.  What the hell did Tate think he was doing?

The message to Ross was a friendly one in which they try to coordinate a meeting, and Tate’s not aggressively dickish or misogynistic in it. Maybe that’s what they are worried will ruin his reputation.

My theory: He wondered aloud whether it made sense for Jean Grey to wear a flesh-colored body suit with a blue thong on top, and Marvel executives beat him to death.

The AV Club, which has the brain of a goldfish, is calling out all those assholes online trying to stir up bad blood between Gladstone and Stone.

That episode was sent to the land of wind and ghosts.

Movies depict specific things, which often comment on broader things. But when you’re talking about how long a movie needs to be, it makes sense to focus on the actual stuff the movie has to show on screen. Because if you try to analyze how long a movie takes to depict a broad, abstract themes, that doesn’t get you…