Yeah, this isn’t even the first time he’s tried to make “X.com” happen. He’s been holding onto this idea for more than twenty years, and it shows in the late-’90s grunge/graffiti aesthetic of the new Twitter X landing page.

Barbie’s director, Greta Gerwig, also put an incredible feather in her cap: Barbie was the biggest opening weekend ever for a film directed by a woman.

...so what? I give regular donations to various non-profits, and I also write them off on my taxes. Why wouldn’t you? Does a donation only “count” for you if the donor doesn’t write it off?

Do you have a source for that number?

I think DodgerBruin needed some attention.

Okay, but Shane Leslie was talking about a boycott specifically “for the duration of the strike,” to try to “force [the studios] to negotiate.” They clearly were proposing a boycott specifically to help the strike. If you yourself want to boycott because it’s making a statement for you personally and it doesn’t matter…

It’d be even better if they could rewrite Turtles Forever so that the ‘87 Turtles had their original personalities instead of basically being four Michelangelos. Leo was done especially dirty.

Should’ve been Gladia2r.

But the “people that tell you otherwise” are the unions that are striking. Boycotting during a strike actually hurts the strike effort. The point is that consumer demand continues while the strikers have cut off the supply line. That continued demand is what pressures the studios to re-establish their supply of…

SAG-AFTRA and WGA are explicitly asking people NOT to boycott. The point of a strike is to shut down Supply while leaving Demand in place, which is quite literally the opposite of a boycott. The more Demand there is, the more pressure it puts on the studios to resume Supply. If people start boycotting and shutting…

Keep in mind that the general rule is that a movie needs to make back roughly twice its production budget in order to for the studio to actually break even on it, because the production budget doesn’t include things like the marketing budget or the theaters’ cut of the ticket price. Taking all that into consideration,…

I mean, these are the same people that thought putting out an article saying “We’re going to hold out until the writers are all homeless and they come crawling back like the pathetic worms that they are” was somehow going to work in their favor.

They are not, but they should be.

That’s honestly another flaw in the Spidey suit for live-action, though, that we do end up spending an inordinate amount of time with an incomplete suit. Again, not the fault of the suit design itself, and I do definitely agree that it is probably the best-looking super-suit in live-action. If I hadn’t been spoiled by…

Just to be contrary, I’m going to say that any live-action Spider-Man suit is going to be fundamentally flawed, at least when compared the suit in comics of animation. Why?

The Shadow nose!

I’m over 40, and I found it to be absolutely delightful.

His powers hadn’t developed yet at that point, so maybe he just actually needed glasses.

They didn’t, it’s just a typo in the article.

Did you know that cows have best friends?