I mean, I'm just using the language of the article, but I suppose you're right? Unless they're intending to squarely retool the visual language of the first film (like doing a cover of someone else's cover - this does happen, as I've learned with no end of guys with acoustic guitars and Ryan Adams' "Wonderwall"). It…

Exactly how it went for me, too!

Yeah, that continues to surprise me. I was over zombies by like 2007 because of over-saturation and figured the trend would die out shortly after. Time makes fools of us all!

So few reboots seem necessary to me, but this one is really puzzling. Aren't people completely over vampires by now? At least until someone does something really inventive with them (please)?

It's also strange to me. I mean, I suppose there is this 20-year cycle of nostalgic romanticism (and I'm kind of glad, because it allows me to dress like Angela Chase/Rayanne Graff's kooky aunt without calling altogether too much attention to myself), but even so, why haven't they generated new angst icons? Is "Hot…

I was once stuck in an ER waiting room for 8 hours while it played on a loop. I hate it forever from that one experience alone.

They are all artists that would have been such a big deal at a festival ten years ago, right? Weird. It's way too early for nostalgia for a decade ago, isn't it? I'm confused.

Combat Rock is a criminally underrated album.

And if it is from an actual punk band, it's doubtlessly their worst song.

When I was 23 I shared a shuttle with a 16 year old and 9 year old. We ended up talking about Green Day somehow and were all introduced to them through different albums. It remains one of the most surreal music-related conversations I've ever had.

Yeah, if my 10 year old friends and I were exchanging Dookie on blank cassette tapes in rural Canada in 1994, there's simply no. way. this checks out.

This comment reminds me of how grateful I am that it's no longer constantly on the radio.

I'm friends with a construction guy who would assuredly give some fascinating arguments for Joan Baez over Joni Mitchell.

There are definitely moments where it gets a little precious (though not as gratingly as something like Lumberjanes), but I love it. I haven't loved a comic in a long time, feels good man.

It is! It's from Tomie!

It's a movie that's had a cult following for 20 years, so it's at least as important as half of the other stuff that gets discussed on pop culture websites?

They weren't Wiccans, but the technical advisor on the film was and incorporated Wiccan rites.

She said in a recent interview with Vice that God's Not Dead 2 is her proudest career accomplishment.

Yeah, it definitely bothers me, as well, because criticism is quite overtly its own creative act. Critical analysis requires abstract thought and precise diction as much as any other type of writing.

I also found that to be confusing - Ruby Sparks was ostensibly a more successful criticism of the MPDG trope than, say, Paper Towns, even though I thought the ending of Ruby Sparks severely undermined its whole message.