He's not even the most annoying character in Temple of Doom...

You find Short Round more annoying than Willie Scott or Mutt?

Temple of Doom is perfectly watchable. Crystal Skull, on the other hand…

I’m curious about this reflexive urge so many internet commenters have to equate any kind of enthusiasm or decisive statement as unearned bravery. Why do you say this? Why do you say, “Wow, it’s so brave,” when, like, nobody implied that? He’s doing publicity for a movie he’s in, someone asked if he’d do an Indiana…

It’s definitely been common in spoken English along with other plural-singular shifts like “there is” and is generally easier to follow. And, of course, it has existed in written English as well, but not to the same extent in formal (presumably proofread) settings. You’re absolutely right that it shouldn’t be an…

They used to have funny writers on this site like a decade ago who would make snarky, almost Onion-esque articles on pop culture news. Now I guess it’s been baked into the house style of this site. So we have random people half-heartedly trying to be clever and cynical while writing for a site on its dying breath.

that our major beef with the Razzies is not so much their general mean-spiritedness, but the sheer lack of creativity with which they express it

Shelley Duvall gives a great performance in The Shining as a person who is completely powerless and terrified of every single thing in her life, especially her husband but also her son. It's apparently been a thing for the last 42 years to dump on her, but that listless performance is perfectly suited to a person…

You could pin this comment at the top of every Barsanti article and it would apply.

The tone of this post sucks. Fuck off, man. 

You know, it occurs to me that if you don’t think that a celebrity’s response to something is particularly noteworthy, then you have the option to simply NOT REPORT ON IT. This weird sort of unearned condescending snark may be Barsanti's trademark, but I'll be damned if I can understand why it's something that the GMG…

SO edgy, SO shocking, to make a joke about someone with alopecia.  Oh wait...alopecia is the main cause of hair loss for people across the globe...and dudes get made fun of it all day every day and nobody gives a shit...and its not an illness...  Is it mean?  Sure.  Does it warrant *literally assaulting someone*?  No,…

Yeah, I feel like at some point contemporary culture settled on the highly simplified notion that the only way to assess the appropriateness of a joke is whether it “punches down,” and consequently the term has lost any descriptive ability beyond simply indicating “I find this joke offensive.”

Came here to say the same thing.

Every live-service game failure is a good thing. Especially ones that charge up front on top of microtransactions (and the mechanics that encourage them).

I don’t understand it. Really, I cannot. I am 44 years old and many, maaany years ago I left the “I cannot understand why you don’t have exactly the same opinion as me” or “being a fan means having a fixed structure of what is good and what is not in this artist career”. I understand why someone thinks that Vespertine…

“Here’s a slideshow of other famous people who died this year.”

I think I’m largely on board with that, even as we have slightly different reads on how unguarded that interview was. For the record, I’m not claiming to know what’s actually going on in his head. I’m saying that his public statements are making him SOUND like a callous asshole, whether he actually is one or not, so…

Batman is demonstrably one of the most elastic and fluid characters in history. He makes sense in a wild variety of different settings, moods, and dynamics.