AvClub’s news writing is pretty much just a delivery vector for unnecessary snark and abrasive takes. Hughes’ articles in particular.

Again, WTF? This isn’t as quite as cheap and really gross as attacking Lohan for no reason but it’s in the same realm. The ridiculous amount of inter-linking in a single article to try get more clicks on other articles is also stupidly apparent. Congrats for going full Spanfeller.

It’s true that they can start to get a bit samey, especially as of late, but it’s still assembled with great skill and more heart than you’d get from other animation studios (although that’s not saying much). And hell, it’s not like you’re gonna take your kids to see The Painted Bird.

Oh damn. And here I was enjoying the hell out of these movies when I should’ve realized they were just formulaic kids movies.  *checks notes re: how Wall-E has the same plot as Inside Out or Up*

Yeah, except that Trump will keep tweeting 300 times a day AND the medias will keep giving each tweet a worldwide echo AND the avclub will keep reporting on each one of them.

Again, I’m going to make the complaint that this is something that big studios should have been doing much earlier.  They just kept pushing major releases back and just *hoping* that this whole inconvenient pandemic thing would blow over soon.  It’s like the corporate version of magical thinking.

Wow, deeply weird that an Ubisoft creative director from back in their rampant sexual harassment wild boy days would have a flagrant yellow peril take. Just curious and curiouser.

.....”fine for its time?”...what a weird take

We’re stretching the term ‘very funny’.

I mean this is just the normal internet pop culture opinion that says acknowledging unstated nuance, suspension of disbelief, or vagueness, be it in a good film or a bad one, is the same as insightful criticism. It chapter 2 may have been pretty bad (haven’t seen it), but this…

Why are you surprised? Isn’t finding bugs exactly what betta testing is for?

any show working with marginalized groups has an obligation to avoid or address stereotypes about those groups

I agree with you, it seems like reviewers are in a contest to tear down the show as much as they can and make unflattering digs under the cowardly guise of raising legitimate questions, sort of like when a sports reporter asks a NBA player to “talk about going 1-13 from the field” instead of just stating that the guy…

Man, I swear reviewers like this are embarrassing. Talking about not enough info two episodes in on a season. I won’t even mention my other qualms. 

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Correct me if I’m wrong here, but it seems that your lede is “too many people are going to the movies,” but your conclusion is “very few people are going to the movies.” Do I have that right?

This is really horrible news considering all the reports on how Disney is a major COVID-19 hotspot, and all of the data suggesting that the parks are essentially super spreader events.

I was wondering the same. Must be because NBC/Universal/Comcast is just a small, Mom & Pop, operation and not the giant corporation that Disney/Marvel/ABC is.

I know that AVClub loves to shit on Disney, but this post is dumb.

Serious question for the AVClub: why so much crapping on Disney specifically and no mention of Universal Studios? Universal reopened before WDW and by all accounts has had more people going to their parks. And Disney is much bigger and more spread out than Universal Studios, so they have more room to spread people out.

The best Corman quote I can think of is when a director didn’t want to follow the tried and true Corman formula. “Listen. You do a good job of this; and you’ll never have to work for me again.”