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Sure. To each their own. I'd rather err on the side of unnatural but well-written dialog. The snappy patter of film noir and hard-boiled...

I'm not sure I'd go so far in this direction either. Noah Baumbach puts a lot of those into dialogue, and those movies generally work...

Yeah. And people really, really don't want dialog in movies or TV shows to match how real people in the real world actually speak. If...

Dialogue not feeling natural is imo a criticism that gets painted with too broad a brush. There are definitely movies/shows where it's...

Yes, the cringe is real. Either thinking about young people we've known, or ourselves as clueless youngsters. I appreciate that by the...

God, even though I knew the line was coming it was still enough to make me roll my eyes hard enough to make my head hurt! I found it a...

I'm not sure what the connection between 100 and a ton is, but we don't have the same internet if you think a streaming series needs a...

I have a friend who spent a lot of the 2010s arguing with me/other friends/randos online that this is gatekeeping. There's a line in...

I think those books are awful but they're very popular with the (relatively) young Gen X and with Millennials who are into fantasy...

Sandwich shop near me had a new offering called The Carrot. Roast carrots, Monterey Jack, and kimchi on ciabatta put on the plancha...

I may need to revise my thoughts about horror novels, my cat reminded me (by trying to eat them) that I actually like T. Kingfisher's...

Thank you, Bruce, I’ll try and keep it short. Let’s start with Joe Dredd, whose creator always said that he “was the warning, not the...

Six people in the industry are catering to your tastes‽‽‽ ... Tell me who they are so I may complain at them until they see the error...

It was actually completely unintentional, I didn't realize they were by the same author until the cashier at Barnes & Noble pointed it...

I think this applies to an awful lot of internet theories about movies or books, they rarely survive contact with whatever they're...