Let’s not “both sides” this. Yes, don’t hit anyone, but women are disproportionately the receivers of domestic violence. Men are, on average, physically stronger and more likely to inflict major damage.

There is also the possibility that—DON’T HIT WOMEN. 

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Me too!

Speaking as someone who sat on the board of a single-screen art house for several years, the problems we faced were three-fold.

There may or may not have been Mandalorians at the controls, but Mandalorian fighter craft were part of the Galaxy Fleet.

Cool, I am going to get fucked!

That’s what surprised me about the novel. It began by engaging in some crowd-pleasing toxic male-zapping, but very quickly descended into examples of women being every bit as cruel as men. Not that that’s unrealistic, I just expected that there’d be a bit more “yay, womanhood” before the raping started. (That said,…

Same. I’m sure it’s good, but that’s a commitment.

My wife complains when a film approaches the two-hour mark. I used to argue that it if the movie remained interesting, it didn’t matter how long it was.

I used to believe in progress, but here we are fighting Nazis again. True, we took twice as long as did the transition from Empire to First Order, but I look around and think, “Huh, I guess it’s not that implausible that we have the same fight all over again.”

Sure am glad he held back on Mr. Mind until the third movie. 😒

Whereas I was expecting that none of the original core cast would return. “Scream 5” seemed to be set up as the last hurrah for the old gang, and as much as I love those characters, I wouldn’t have minded seeing Sidney and Gale get a Ghostface-free happy ending.

I don’t know, where in the fuck was Ahsoka during all that time when her former master was terrorizing the galaxy? “No, there is another” takes on an entirely new meaning.

And yet you didn’t, did you? I know that you think you’ve made a sick burn here, but my point stands: the creatives behind the MCU aren’t all that concerned about the source material beyond the broad strokes. Thanos still wants the Infinity Stones, but his rationale is entirely different. The MCU’s Infinity Saga is…

Funny thing: I don’t have to *like* when they swap in a legacy character.

I’m glad that they didn’t go with the hoary trope of Dad-sacrifices-himself-to-save-his-daughter. Not just because one could see it coming from two quantum realms away, but because the movie would be taking away a character I really like for one I barely know.

For me it’s the “Alien” films. Can’t watch “Aliens” without thinking that Ripley’s efforts to save Newt are undone the moment she closes the hypersleep chamber. And can’t watch “Alien” without thinking that the mysterious “Space Jockey” is just Powder in an environmental suit, and that the Alien itself isn’t some…

I suppose that if you lived through those 30 (not 20, FWIW) years of relative peace, you might feel differently about that “waste.”

I know that a lot of folks think that “Toy Story 3” was the capper of the series, but for me everything after “Toy Story 2” was overegging the pudding. I wasn’t wowed by the third one. I saw the fourth on an airplane, and aside from the carnival prizes, nothing at all sticks out.