Venom made $856,085,151. If Sony executives were betting they could count on audiences showing up for a fan-favorite character headlining his own movie, they bet right.

I’m going to try this defense in my own professional life next time I get talked to by management: “Well, you all are the ones who hired me, so who’s the grossly incompetent one now, buddy?”

The hilarious thing is that while AVC is trying to drag the guy here, over on the AVC review of True Detective’s last episode the majority of people seem to agree with him that the show was mediocre at best and the final episode was garbage.

Don’t blame the internet. People just aren’t generally mature enough to use it. Quite possibly, and probably, including myself but... I forget what my point was.

I think he’s a knob and that TD season 1 was only decent because he had Cary Fukunaga babysitting him, but to be fair, you edited out the part of his post where he said he created the thread specifically so people would stop arguing about season 4 on his post about his father dying. 

I’m back to thinking he’s cool after reading this herb ass post!

The internet was a mistake.

The article is about Cruise and Phoenix working on two entirely separate movies both produced by Warner Bros.

What do these things have to do with each other? I don’t know that you can mash news stories together like this. “Barbie’s over there getting snubbed for Oscar nominations, but at the same time Russia is invading Ukraine!”

Have you seen Born on the Fourth of July? Taps? Rain Man? A Few Good Men?

“If suddenly Prime Video was free, I’m sure Prime subscriptions would fall because most people don’t profit from free shipping alone”

Either I don’t understand what you’re saying, or you have this exactly backwards.

I would wager multiple American dollar-bucks that if you took a poll of the Prime users, the ones who…

The snark seems misplaced here. WBD is focusing on two types of movies — prestige pictures that win awards, and low risk franchise pictures that are very likely to make lots of money.

Since this is about the Joker you could’ve said “...and everyone loses their minds!”

A movie studio is spending $200M on a sequel to a movie that made over $1B? Stop the presses, I think we have the scoop of the year.

I will miss Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin.

The real take should be: we’ve got Biden, who is on a slow, gentle glide in a fairly typical retirement old-guy mindset, and we’ve got Trump who is in a steep decline into blithering madness. They are two different angles of descent. We’re stuck with both because of rules and reasons: An incumbent president has the…

I think “whataboutism” is dumb too, as if it’s wrong to go “What about...?”

God, even just watching this video now, where he spends the entire show harping on what a shitheel Tucker Carlson is is just another reminder of the past. I watched Stewart dismantle the very nature of the work Conservative media was doing on Crossfire two decades ago, and while I appreciated it at the time, even then…

At the risk of jumping in early on another thread doomed to get 300 comments from dozens of people arguing at each other, Jon Stewart was never —and certainly is not in this year 2024— a kingmaker. I watched TDS religiously through the first decade or so of his tenure, and Bush was still elected and subsequently reelec…

And this is exactly why I prefer John Oliver now. Not saying he doesn’t address criticism in a funny way as well, but Stewart’s self deprecating shtick has already worn thin and I’m already tired of his segments consisting of “someone says one sentence in a two second clip and then Stewart makes fun of that”. It…