George Carlin wrote his material with the explicit goal of pissing off conservatives. The people he pissed off were people he intentionally targeted, because stand-up comedy isn’t aimless ranting (any asshole can do that), it’s about carefully crafted wordplay and bits.

I’m shocked that this trend spread like many trends do, and then it was covered by an entertainment magazine due to its proximity to entertainment!

They really don’t seem to understand that they’re just admitting their movie isn’t as compelling as three consecutive episodes of a TV show. Sorry James, but the first third of Severance is actually just more interesting than Avatar!

I saw Avatar a second time!

A movie theater’s entire business relies on selling oversized drinks and snacks.

Alternatively, maybe directors and theaters should accept that they’re going to have an abnormal number of customers who will need to pee in the middle of their entertainment when the theater’s entire business model relies on selling massive concessions, and the movie’s entire business model relies on theaters.

The best way to follow up something like EEAAO is something that continues its sense of surprise and discovery, not something that continues its narrative.

I thought this was a decent Wanda on the page turned into a great Wanda on the screen by Olsen’s performance, but it did still lean far too heavily on my boys for comfort, even with its “the book made her crazy” band-aid.

Jackass was a bad influence at the time because it had an unusually wide reach, but it didn’t invent the grand tradition of “hey y’all watch this” and widespread personal video sharing was inevitably going to lead to its proliferation with or without Knoxville and crew.

I just don’t think that’s very true, and is a matter of historical revisionism and skewed perception. In truth, even though we saw Thanos in the Avengers stinger, the Infinity saga didn’t start to coalesce until Guardians of the Galaxy at best. That was the tenth MCU movie.

The thing is that right now it feels like the worst of both worlds: individual stories are getting sucked up into the Grand MCU Arc... but the Grand MCU Arc is currently a bit of a mess. The episodic bits are still suffering from the serialization, but the serial story being told isn’t particularly good.

Which to spin off?!

I never said Pulp Fiction was relevant solely because it made a lot of money. I said it was very widely liked and respected, not just by a bubble of fanboys, so the resulting controversy about Forrest Gump winning over it wasn’t just the result of a cult of personality that hadn’t even formed yet in 1994.

Condescending on what hill people choose “to die on” is the weakest shit and means obviously you know they’re right and wish they weren’t so cavalier about it.

Noooope, they aren’t mean. It’s simply his views.

In the UK it’s a semi-offensive word for vagina.

“The underpaid young writers cranking out the books I slap my name on are increasingly foreign to me and it’s making the facade harder and harder to maintain.”

Not offensive at all in the US, way more offensive in the UK. Just because we share the same language doesn’t mean it all plays the same everywhere.

Most people spent six years being teenagers and have absolutely no desire to repeat that experience.

Yeah, but “Todd Phillips doing Joker as a serious Scorsese movie” and “Todd Phillips doing Joker as a musical with Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn” seem like they’d fail in extremely different ways. The former had the potential to be tedious with a totally unearned self-importance (and hey, it was), but the latter has the…