This movie looks flatout great. The animation looks terrific and the brief scenes that are shown in the trailer make it seem like it was written by people who know and appreciate Nintendo and Mario. The scenes with DK and Mario running through a classic platforming stage and then Mario using the Rainbow Road shortcut…

The US is a bastion of workers’ rights, a place where collective action gets results.

Calling it. This is going to be a fun one.

It is a “comedy” show.

SNL is the enemy of comedy. Banal and enabling, the bad far outweighs the good and Lorne Michaels should be tried for all of the horror he has inflicted these past few decades.

I’m always on the side of collective action, but April 1 seems like a really bad day to pick for something serious like this.

“Strikes are not funny ” sounds like an absolute kind of nugget Lorne would say if someone mentioned them near him.

“Strikes are not funny,” Neither is SNL.

Hilarious example from the writer, given that he released three beloved movies at 9 year intervals.

Came here to say the same thing, haha.

This is not news, I remember hearing about this when the movie came out almost 10 years ago now.

That was also my takeaway. Her analysis sounds like my least favorite flavor of modern cultural criticism, which is more or less that everything isa symbol for some Larger Cultural Conversation and the author’s own views on it. Like every single line of dialogue and action must be read as making some distinct…

“with both the 12-year shoot for Boyhood and 20-year shoot for Merrily We Roll Along under his belt.”

I guess that’s the idea Lorelei has, which doesn’t seem well-considered, as if she thinks her dad is saying “Females don’t read Vonnegut” rather than “Samantha doesn’t read Vonnegut.” I think it’s an error a lot of people make: that this character represents all people of the character’s type (e.g. all gays are this,…

Alternative AVCLUB headline: Nepo baby’s de-nep request noped by nep daddy

I’m confused by what she means when she mentions the dialog referencing Vonnegut. Is it supposed to be bad because Vonnegut isn’t a feminist author or because the female character should have been reading his books herself?

“offends people who wanted this to be another Arkham game.”

No amount of polish is going to turn this turd into a diamond. But I guess it gives job security to the devs for a few more months.

The headline is pretty misleading. It implies a connection between negative fan feedback and the delay when there may not be any connection at all. It’s far more likely that the game just needs a few extra months of polish. They aren’t going to change any of the fundamentals. It will still be a co-op loot shooter and…

Is there even anything they can do with a few extra months? I mean, the core of the game is going to remain the same, no?