King sort of gets to that point in Danse Macabre (which is great, if you haven’t checked it out yet). I don’t remember the exact passage, but the idea was along the lines that in writing, it’s better to let the reader’s imagination do the heavy lifting. If you get too explicit in your reveal, people will just go…

You sound like you were rich enough to afford a rag on a stick.

where’s the hot topic? where are the nipples? why isn’t the Joker a representative of poor people leeches that superhero industrialist randian manly-manbat Batman defeats?

Maybe his weight loss is because Thanis did take half a person out of him. 

Maybe I’m alone in this...but originally I assumed Jimmy Pesto hired flier guy to prank Bob, but maybe I was giving Pesto too much credit?

I only walked out of the cinema an hour ago so I’m still mulling over exactly what I thought of the film, and especially the twist, but I don’t think it destroys any possible allegory. I interpret the film as a commentary on the social class system, with the Tethered, not unsubtly, representing the underclass. ‘Fake’…

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I think that’s one element, but another is that Wonder Woman’s central thesis (that War, as an external force embodied by an immortal god with an absolutely fucking ridiculous stuffy-old-man moustache that has no business being in flashbacks from thousands of years ago, is really behind the evil in all men’s hearts)…

It’s funny the different reactions that over-the-top scene in Wonder Woman can provoke. For me, the appropriation of that First World War trope for a superhero Crowning Moment of Awesome just made my brain start screaming ‘WRONG WRONG WRONG’.

It’s interesting that the “other things” section makes it abundantly clear that while 2017 had several much BETTER superhero movies than WW - which I largely think, I’m sorry to say, is relatively mediocre in terms of plotting, writing, and acting (and CGI), although it has some VERY good scenes (Gadot’s “Christopher…

I feel like “Unrated” should be changed to look like it’s been stamped on the cover in red ink to really drive home how porn-adjacent the zany hijinks are. And it should be placed in such a way as to cover the nipples of faceless bikini woman.

Eggs are for pussies...

B-but that would be uncivil! The worst thing you can be! Worse than a racist or unapologetic fascist, even!

I think blaming it on a 22 year old instead of an American public ignorant enough to make an ultimately meaningless scandal the deciding factor in their vote, especially considering who is in the Oval Office today, is indeed a bad take. Lord knows the subsequent Presidents show that A) scandals not about sex but…

I would love a mass egging of assholes, but it'd probably get people shot here.

Tucker Carlson somehow becoming relevant 14 years after Crossfire is proof that public shaming doesn’t really work because public shaming is not enough.

It’s a fun thought experiment to play “what if Al Gore had won,” but to basically blame a 22-year old intern with a crush on her boss for the death of millions around the world certainly transforms it into an awful take.

I would like to request that Ms. Spheeris write an autobiography . . . growing up in traveling carnivals and becoming a successful filmaker AND facing down the Wicked Letch of the West AND to come out the other side a punk rock lady with zero fucks to give?!? More, yes, please.

You’re not wrong, but I think Bob was always an old world worshiping intellectual republican, the kind they don't make anymore. He said the Democrat line because democrats were [somewhat incorrectly] portrayed by the Bushes of the world as soft on crime.