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I watched and enjoyed Euphoria but it didn’t really feel like a show that actual teens would be into (and I’m old enough that I have teens, who I probably wouldn’t want watching the show anyway, but the types of things the do watch are really nothing like that show anyway).  I think part of the reasons why these shows

Ah, cool, I didn’t know all that about Belushi. So I guess HE was the biggest star in America in 1978!  Thanks for the info.

Basically every scene with Jannah seemed to be setting her up to be Finn’s new love interest or Lando’s (grand)daughter (or, inadvertently, Lando’s new love interest). It reminded me of the soap operas I used to watch as a kid with my granny, where there’d always be exactly two black families so that they could

That’s the exact feeling I have after having watched the movie; it feels like they took a rough draft of the script and filmed it without anyone stopping to notice that the thing hadn’t been edited. There are so many moments or plot points that are either set up but completely fail to pay off (Finn’s I want to tell

I hate that you made me look this up instead of doing actual work :-)

To dirtside’s point, there were definitely scenes where it felt like they were a bit too gleeful about killing Stormtroopers; I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that.

I mentioned this in the greys, but this post is misquoting what Cameron said. He actually said that he thinks the original Avatar will surpass Endgame when it’s re-released ahead of the sequel. Which is plausible, as the lead that Endgame has is not that large, as far as I can tell. (Personally, i’d much rather

That’s not what he said. If you read the linked article, he actually said that he believes the original Avatar will retake the top all-time box office spot once it’s re-released ahead of the sequel. Which is entirely possible since Endgame only slightly out-earned it. (For the record, I was very glad that Avengers

Thanks for reminding me of Norm McDonald’s joke (I somehow can’t find a video of it on Youtube, but hopefully someone else will).

After a bit of MCU burnout, i’m excited for Phase 4. I do see it like a return to Phase 1 (with the added benefits of having some popular characters already established): a bunch of seemingly independent stories that will gradually coalesce; multiple overarching plots and story lines (remember, Phases 1-3 weren’t only

I saw Endgame in a nearly empty theater on a Tuesday afternoon a few weeks after it came out, so I unfortunately missed the audience reaction element of the movie. On its own, I felt that Endgame was a decent movie with some really good moments but far from my favorite MCU movie (and I am a HUGE Marvel fan since the

Well, a lot of time and events happened between Civil War and Far From Home, so it kind of makes sense that Tony had changed his mind by then.

I was really mad that Widow, the OG female Avenger, didn’t get to be in that scene. I doubt it will happen (too convoluted to be worth it, probably), but I’d love if they establish that Widow is somehow still alive (maybe Hulk’s wish to bring her back did work, or they use some time travel shenanigans to bring her

Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city. During a time when I was kind of experiencing burnout from popular music (I didn’t even buy the album, just borrowed it from my roommate at the time), I found myself listening to it on repeat for months. It was such a good balance of staying true to the concept (an out of

I posted this above, but it’s literally the type of scenario that “intersectionality” was coined to address. Imagine, for example, a business that hires white women to work in its offices and black men to work in its factory but won’t hire black women for any role - that’s clearly discriminatory (this, btw, is an

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Even if you don’t agree with her argument (and I don’t think she’s near the draw that any of these other acts are), it does make sense: she’s arguing that they’re paying her less because she’s a black woman. It’s literally the scenario that the term intersectionality was coined to describe (Skip to 4:50 for the

I don’t think that’s his argument. We now know that Black Panther became a huge cultural and box-office phenomenon, but we didn’t know that going in. Remember that this was a movie that, according to Bob Iger, certain execs didn’t want to make because they didn’t think black-led movies did well internationally, an

Does it really matter? Do we judge films on the things outside of what’s on the screen (how many cooks were in the kitchen making it, whether it’s part of some larger franchise, etc), or do we judge the final product on its own merits? If you simply don’t like superheroes or sci fi, fine. But even if these aren’t your

You’re so very right. That was probably my favorite moment of the whole film when I first saw it (well, that or Hulk rag-dolling Loki). The genius is that, instead of Whedon trying to literally recreate a splash page on film (something that he does in the opening of Age of Ultron to lesser effect), he figured out the

There are so many character-driven moments and decisions that drive that fight. Cap protecting civilians and nearly getting killed doing so. Loki arrogantly catching the arrow (which then literally blows up in his face, as his plans tend to do). And so on. And you’re even more right about Civil War-it’s amazing that