My thoughts exactly.

100% exactly this. Well put.

Of course James Bond should be a man. That’s the character as intended. Making Bond a woman accomplishes nothing. It’s fake corporate gesturing to try to appease to the crowd that gets loud about wokeness thinking they’ll be satisfied. Make new roles for women. That’s progress. Put women behind the camera. In the…

Considering I am at best mildly enthusiastic about the new live action Spidey, but I am hyped through the fucking roof for another Spider-verse, good job Sony!

I needed literally nothing to make me excited for this movie but then it was announced that Joaquim Dos Santos is directing it and I somehow got more excited.

I’m in just the same boat. Habit + unwillingness to find some new place + an appreciation of a generally intelligent commentariat are what keep me coming back. Also the occasional worthwhile long-form article, but there are precious few of those these days.

Fucking lol:

Yeah - same here; I still hang around here because I’m not ready or really willing to go to another site, but even without knowing about all the trouble at the AV Club office until now, I could tell by the overall tone and quality of the articles that things were not well. That, combined with the messed-up Kinja stuff…

Jesus Christ. It’s way past time to be done with this site. The new editor sounds like a tool. Writers don’t engage with the readership. It’s just empty content with a few exceptions thrown in every now and then.

Speaking of gross behavior, did everyone else all ready know about this?

Once you go public with this shit there’s no going back.

It was incredibly shitty to air out dirty laundry this way to the press when Ferrell has not said anything - even when Ferrell had a big profile a month or two ago in Hollywood Reporter where he was talking about changes in his career over the last few years, a perfect opportunity, he said nothing.

You know, I don’t really care who behaved worse, this just bums me out.  I like both of their work a lot.  

Ferrell is a capable actor when used correctly and given the right material. He was clearly passionate for this lakers show, and mixed with his longest artistic partner, would have given his all here.

Yeah, the constantly reloading ads blocking the page are getting pretty annoying.

Why is the site constantly reloading and shifting as I’m trying to read (and even as I type this comment)? Please get your shit together!

Comedian Mike Birbiglia has a great bit where the punchline he keeps coming back to is: “And what I should have said was...nothing.”

“Then when he calls to patch things up, the does so by telling Ferrell that he, McKay, is the real aggrieved party here.”

And now he’s taking a private conflict public to try to position himself as the wronged party.

Will Ferrell has been known to be a dick to people so I normally would not be 100% on his side.. But like Jesus McKay. Dude is your friend and really wants a role and he has to find out from media that you hired his other best friend? Come on, thats not “business stuff” and you have to be a psycho to not realize why…

He really should’ve known this would be how it played out because the exact same thing happened in Talledegha Nights when Reilly marries Ricky Bobby’s wife.