Alex Garland is multiple people? Perhaps “the racists” refers to the generic mass of people in the entertainment industry who keep doing this sort of thing.

Racism isn’t a hell of a charge. It’s a super common feature of life in this society. Instead of getting incredibly defensive when the topic comes up, it would be more useful to take a step back and actually engage with what’s being said.

The discussion isn’t “Is the overall cast of Annihilation Diverse” it’s “Why were 2 white women cast as the WoC lead characters from the book.”

I think HumanEyeballOS has a feature called “Don’t Read The Article.”

So...the issues Charles is raising are valid, but Charles talking about those issues is bad?

I agree with you on borderline movies or movies that are divisive, but having not seen The Emoji Movie, I feel comfortable saying The Emoji Movie was bad (see also Pixels, etc). What I mean is, if there’s an overwhelming critical consensus one way or another, that’s probably a decent guide most of the time (with a…

Cue hundreds of idiots calling it a Rick and Morty ripoff.

I have neither the time nor the money to watch every movie for myself to see how it is. There’s nothing wrong with identifying a cluster of professional critics who you know have opinions you respect or at least tastes you agree with to broadly filter the wheat from the chaff.

The Phantom Menace has a rating of 55 on Rotten Tomatoes and a metacritic score of 51. It was not a critical darling. Please stop making up history to fit your narrative.

Wally offers many of the same problems as Firestorm. His powers are an expensive special effect to put on screen and his powers cause too many writing problems unless you make him lame all the time (see also Martian Manhunter).

They can buff the power level of the MCU Thing if they want, the same way they buffed Cap.

Run DMC actually make sense, they put rock into their music and laid the groundwork for hop hop/rock collaborations and fusion groups that came later.

I’m flashing back to the days of Unreal Tournament Instagib mode.

B-Wing 4 Lyfe.

WKRP is always a pain to package up because of the music rights.

I live in New England. Winter happens here, that’s just life.

Physician heal thyself, your first post as assholish as hell.

Pretty sure this is a “you” problem.

Football is hanging on by a thread for me. Earlier this year I made the decision to stop watching boxing and MMA. (I’ll still watch Olympic wrestling and judo).

The fundamental Charles/Erik relationship stuff in First Class was great. Those two are the ethical and emotional poles of the Marvel mutant narrative and all that was good.