I just read an early draft of Raimi’s Spider-Man (with Electro) and the origin lacks the moment where the promoter rips him off (“I missed the part where that’s my problem.”) Without that, Peter comes off like a real dick. Dude gets robbed and Peter lets him go just because. That little smirk Tobey gets when he throws…

The second film delves into this pathos even better; it gives Peter Parker great reasons to quit being Spider-man, but he also has to live with the guilt of knowing his absence as Spider-man costs innocent people of their lives. They are explicitly about one of the great moral lessons; to quietly do the right thing.…

People keep wondering if you “can have Trumpism without Trump.” There’s just no way. You’d basically need a 1992 Mazda Miata to come to life and start being racist to capture the sort of pretend luxury, name recognition, and racial grievance that Trump was able to capitalize on. It’s basically the same questions as…

I’m having very similar issues with the Fast and Furious franchise people which is why I haven’t appeared in any. AND I WON’T.

This actually gets at the entire sick tragedy of the Trump presidency — MAGAworld has no particular interest in governing the country; they want to dominate the country’s culture in a way that’s not possible for a demographic that’s in irreversible economic and population decline. They seem to have thought that…

When Democrats say “elitists” they mean rich people, when Republicans say “elitists” they mean smart people.

Lets not forget a Christmastime shout out to AV Club itself! We may not have seen HOST or David Lynch but everyone here has passed the pandemic year frequenting THIS site. :-)

Portal 2's J.K. Simmons. Cave Johnson is the best.

Thank you for not making this a slideshow.

To me, the only genuinely great thing to come out of Heroes was Zachary Quinto. From memory, he was a no-name actor who immediately rocketed from a guest part into a central focus and Quinto was always able to at least energize the show when it was sorely needing it. The fact that Quinto has a steady career and seems…

Things that are legit disturbing: the seeming lack of any contemporary hip-hop literacy at AVC anymore. “RTJ4 benefited from a dearth in major rap events this year.” Now I love RTJ and 4 RIPS but... what??? Putting aside the Jay Electronica debut accounted for on this list, there were major releases from other…

Of course, as a woman, even if you look good, you want to nitpick every little flaw you think you have. But there was something free about just going, “Okay, I’m just going to do it.”

Funny, I was thinking the same about the lack of Dawes.

“Remember that turd Joss Whedon didn’t  manage to polish? Well what if there was even more turd?”

So does his thumb.

It’s not a bad approximation of Ad Rock’s voice, but it did make him sound a bit like Brian Johnson.

There are some great points here about how much pressure Columbus et al was under to make as literal of an adaptation as possible. Yet it made for such an interesting contrast to Fellowship of the Ring, which came out only a month later. The Sorcerer’s Stone reeked of a studio trying desperately to make money off a…

Guy given dumpster fire and told to try and fix dumpster fire getting blamed for it seems kind of unfair.

“Who’s the talentless clown now, assholes?”

Good choice, WYWH is a bit on the nose.