Yes! I was so confused when I started seeing terrible reviews of Life Itself, thinking: 1. Didn’t this movie come out a few years ago? and 2. It was wonderful! How can so many people hate it??!

I taught middle school for years, and my students would roll their eyes about how babyish those stupid cartoony stickers were. When I transferred to high school, my juniors and seniors LOVED my sticker stash - the sillier and sparklier, the better. 

Idk man, my dad (63 y-o, straight, white man) watches Hallmark Christmas rom-coms of his own volition every year and I don’t think he’d touch this tripe with a 10-foot pole.

Before I started volunteering with small children my Mom handed me a box with hundreds and hundreds of shiny stickers. She is a teacher with 20+ years experience and she said very seriously “This is how you’ll get them to listen to you. You have to bring these.” I was young and dumb and thought she was being a BIT over…

It’s like he heard all the applause over Brie Larson saying “I don’t want to know what a white guy thought of A Wrinkle in Time” and decided to co-opt that as a defense for his movie getting bad reviews.

Like how no one ever says goodbye on cell phones in movie and TV. Why do people just keep hanging up on each other?

PUFFY STICKERS OR GTFO.

Seriously, I might actually buy this: https://www.amazon.com/BeYumi-Different-Stickers-Scrapbooking-Including/dp/B071LGPLPW/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_bs_img_1/137-3259915-5690913?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=T6EBXF4BV5W9BARGJGHH.

And then roll around in them on the floor while my husband quietly and gently…

When I read that quote, I headed over to rotten tomatoes to see what I could see. And what do you know, the female critics don’t like it either:

Another reason this is stupid is because there is ALREADY a recent and perfect movie called ‘Life Itself’. It’s based off of Roger Ebert’s amazing memoirs of the same name and is a documentary made with such warmth, affection, and unflinching honesty as to fill you up with so much good will that it starts spilling out…

Yep! Notice how he doesn’t use actual women or POC voices, just the idea of them, as some manipulative defense.

I think he should do a live-action version of “Everyone Poops.”

horrifying to see white men co-opt the critiquing of white men! this is what happens when “woke” white men are faced with the teensiest of criticism: they lash out and weaponize the tools developed by women

Please don’t use the overabundance of white male movie critics as a reason your movie sucks.

I am furious at Oscar Isaac for wasting his hotness on this maudlin crying porn. He’s going to have to do a lot of making out with John Boyega if he expects my forgiveness.

Walking Dead spoiler!!

Wow. Cool. Thank you for taking the time to explain your reasoning. I realize now I came off as a bit of a curt jerk, and I didn’t mean to. I hope you enjoy Horizon: Zero Dawn. I’ve been looking forward to it too.

If everyone thought that way, there would be no indie games.

The dialogue is pure gold. Playing through it with my wife and we’re really enjoying it. Good write up, Riley!

Yeah, if you’re looking for action, forget it. All the charm here is in the art and the dialogue and how crazy some of the minigames are (knuckle stabbing knife fight!)