I got that sense as well. I may not agree with it, but I didn’t get this vibe of ‘poor people should stop complaining’. There should be at least some editorial conscience to how much personal commentary goes into an article about another article of a memoir the author hasn’t read.

Was going to say, she’s done that ‘waking up in a space-time continuum’ thing pretty well before.

Makes you wonder what today’s kids who are too young to remember 9/11 will remember vividly.

Before the Vegas team was named, I had the thought of naming them the City Lights, thinking it was both classy and appropriate for the city. Then they named them the Golden Knights, which is very different, but phonetically bang-on. Of bad names, though, the worst had to be the Thrashers. I had cousins two hours from…

To potentially save you some time, it’s not. It’s a pretty dumb movie.

The worst part of that is that the ‘H’ in the middle of the ‘C’ apparently doesn’t stand for “Habitants” (which is where the nickname “Habs” comes from) but is rather boringly short for the word “hockey”.

I’ll have to rewatch TLJ, as that moment is a bit hazily remembered for me.(Separately, for 8 and 9, I mostly enjoyed them both, despite the obvious creative direction differences/horrible fan politics.) I did appreciate that not only The Rise of Skywalker ended on an essential duplicate of that scene - it had to,…

I agree with you on the graphic violence part, though not so much for its content as for its intent. I remember never being bothered by Home Alone, but I can rarely seem to find any mention for the ‘Boo Box’ scene in Hook. It’s the scene where the one pirate gets singled out by Captain Hook for being disloyal and then…

1) Mine was always Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze, probably because I won it in a colouring contest at the local video store when I was seven. I was the only kid who coloured them green, and I still don’t know if that made me bright or maybe just the oldest and/or least creative kid.

2) I worked in a prep kitchen with…

Exactly. The common complaint I always heard was the hypothetical horror story that could have been created if some kid actually tried that with a home invasion.

John Williams is how I explain/justify Star Wars to people who have never seen it. I get why the originals are a tough sell for people so inundated with the exposure of it that it’s unappealing. The OT had a lot going for it, but I don’t know if anyone would argue that it could have went half as far without that…

Hell, even The Simpsons episode had the ship’s commander being fired out of a cannon to his death. 

Not that this was an Earth-shaking prediction, but I have said for years that in 2020, someone - someone - was going to do the ‘Vision 2020' thing. It had to happen, did happen, and now I know it was Kanye West who did it.

It’s funny, “one of the most stressful movies I have ever seen” as a submarine movie had me checking the trailer thinking I’d seen it. There’s that one where Harrison Ford plays a Russian, or the one where the guy gets slow-cooked going into the irradiated area to save everyone, or the one where the sub commander is…

“Because if that’s not enough to make you want to walk into the ocean..”
- John Mulaney

The suffix ‘-phobic’ is in itself a parenthetical of hyper-evolving language, and I think most people could agree it’s used both properly and improperly across the board. It’s beside the point. 

I agree with what you said, and I’m curious why you picked that one point that doesn’t conflict with anything. I’m not…

You make a good point, but it’s still so bafflingly odd to me hearing some of these initial concerns dismissed entirely as some knee-jerk, drag-knuckle hatemongering. I get that there are legitimately transphobic people in the world, but I don’t think the first reaction of ‘wait, so any man can now just walk into a…

Your argument, though, was that he doesn’t care about ‘place’ at all. It’s okay to disagree, obviously, but my argument is just that Nolan’s movies were informed definitively by breaking from the past, and a more realistic Batman universe needs a more realistic Gotham. While I would say that Burton’s movies are…

Respectfully disagree. I think a lot of Nolan’s sense of ‘place’ was not only borne of the necessity to not be the Schumacher movies, but also just the choice to make most situations at least somewhat familial. The masked goons in the opening scene actually have conversations and motives; the crime bosses meet in a…