Old chum, idk even know why we’re still talking about this, but at this point I don’t want it to stop.

My bro, that’s what I’m saying. I’d have much more respect for him if he was just like “I lied a bit for the laughs” rather than scoffing and repeating “emotional truth” as something other than a nonsense term over and over.

Don’t lie to your wife. Lie to your audience, and be truthful about the fact you’re lying.…

My dude he literally used that platform to get himself a Netflix show. He also didn’t clearly admit that it wasn’t true. He’s trying to have it both ways and when caught, he’s spouting “emotional truth.”

I’m not saying you can’t lie as a comedian. I’m saying that you should be pretty fucking open about it if you’re…

This isn’t terribly difficult, right?

Maher is the poster child for "being a contrarian just means you let other people make up your mind for you differently"

More complicated is the argument that collapsing the categories would actually take away opportunities for women and gender-nonconforming performers to be recognized

Why not just create a new non-binary category and be done with it? Keep best actor & actress, add best non-binary actor? I dont want to live in a world where women aren’t recognized and all the awards go to dudes. That is exactly what would happen if those categories were collapsed. 

True, but like with sports if the person proves to be a terrible actor then people will stop casting them, just as no one is going to pay Lebron’s son tens of millions per year just to keep dad happy (in fact it’s looking like he won’t be a NBA talent at all).

Plagiarizers always assume the blog they C&P from did the fact-checking.

Over 60% of Americans own homes. Also the middle class used to have no problem buying homes when wages were fairer, before actual elites in executive roles were given carte blanche to steal their labor again.

I haven’t seen Oppenheimer yet, but currently I’d say Memento is best, Prestige second, Dunkirk third.

I love how they randomly left in elements of the aborted Finn/Rey romantic relationship—the secret that Finn had to tell Rey that went absolutely nowhere—and then handwaved an explanation after the fact. Uh, he really wanted to tell her that he’s, uh...“force sensitive”! Yeah, that's the ticket!

After reading this review, I wonder if Josie and the Pussycats was too soon for this world because that had some great biting satire.

Ah yes. It’s that guy. I’m pretty sure that starring in one of the most popular movies of it’s genre counts as acting but, by all means, go ahead and shit on the guy if it makes you feel good.

I would guess that he’s referring to The Great Wall. It was a stinker that bombed hard domestically (it did do well overseas including in China as it was made there and was a Chinese production, but overall I think it lost money).

Rachel Dawes? No. She’s a love interest for Bruce in Batman Begins. You’d have to assume they had The Dark Knight plotted out already then, which I don’t think was true.

Is Rachel really even a “fridging”? It’s not like she was introduced solely for the purpose of being killed off, and she’s around for a movie and a half. Plus, who is the fridging supposed to apply to? Because it has pretty equal effects on both Harvey Dent and Batman.

The worst case of fridging in the MCU was Coulson but no one cared. 

Anyone who thinks that Nat sacrificed herself because the writers of the movie wanted to say she was less worthwhile than Clint is just looking for something to be outraged about.

With all due respect, those consequences are only “readily apparent” to people who don’t actually analyze these data. You keep saying things like that or “common sense” to indicate your unwillingness to consider solutions to complex problems that your common sense solutions have never helped with, at all.