Topics / Entertainment
Where people stand on entertainment.
Streaming, spoilers, fandoms, remakes — where people stand on how we watch, listen, and argue about it.
When a classic story gets adapted, casting should stay faithful to how the original describes its characters.57%agree · 7Fandoms ruin the things they love more often than critics do.33%agree · 3Spoiling a show a week after it airs is fair game.67%agree · 3The theater experience is worth saving even when the movie isn't.100%agree · 3There's too much TV for any of it to matter the way shows used to.67%agree · 3The monoculture was better — everyone watching the same thing beats everyone watching their own thing alone.50%agree · 2The World Cup is the only event left that the whole world actually watches together.100%agree · 1Hollywood spending $250 million on "The Odyssey" is a better use of money than another franchise sequel.100%agree · 1Wall-to-wall coverage of Taylor Swift's wedding was a reasonable reflection of what people actually care about.100%agree · 1"Skip intro" won because no intro earned the ninety seconds after episode two.0%agree · 1Long-running shows should end on time — one great final season is worth more than three okay ones.100%agree · 1Watching a movie with your phone in hand is skimming, not watching.100%agree · 1Bingeing a series in a weekend is a worse way to watch it, and we all do it anyway.100%agree · 1Outrage over reboot casting is mostly performance — it rarely survives the actual release.100%agree · 1Cancel culture in entertainment mostly cancels the almost-famous — the truly famous wait it out.100%agree · 1Award shows are the industry watching itself, and the ratings say audiences noticed.100%agree · 1Celebrity opinions on politics are worth exactly as much as a plumber's, and they get a thousand times the reach.0%agree · 1Loot boxes in kids' games are gambling with cartoon wrapping.100%agree · 1Watching someone else play a game is real entertainment, not a symptom of anything.100%agree · 1Buying games and not playing them is collecting, and collecting is respectable.100%agree · 1Video games are the dominant art form of this century — the culture pages just haven't caught up.100%agree · 1The book was better, but the person who says it before you finish the movie is worse.100%agree · 1Adult Disney superfans deserve less judgment than they get — expensive joy is still joy.100%agree · 1Rereading and rewatching beat most new things — familiarity is a feature, not a rut.100%agree · 1You don't have to finish a book you're not enjoying. The author will never know.0%agree · 1Nostalgia has become a business model, and millennials are its best customers.100%agree · 1Pop music is better made now than ever — nostalgia is grading on a curve.100%agree · 1Most people's "eclectic" music taste is narrower than they think.0%agree · 1Artists' politics shouldn't affect whether you enjoy their music — the song outranks the singer.100%agree · 1Shuffle killed the album, and something real was lost with it.100%agree · 1Concerts are mostly about being able to say you were there, and that's a fine thing to pay for.100%agree · 1Your music taste froze within five years of high school, and everyone's did.0%agree · 1Trailer culture spoils more movies than any person ever has.100%agree · 1Knowing the ending doesn't ruin a good story — rewatches prove it.100%agree · 1"No spoilers" has a statute of limitations measured in weeks, not years.100%agree · 1Marvel fatigue is real, but the snobbery about superhero movies was always worse than the movies.100%agree · 1Three-hour movies need to justify the third hour, and almost none do.0%agree · 1Talking during a movie should get you removed — the ticket is a seat, not a stage.0%agree · 1The best movie snack is smuggled in, and the ritual is half the flavor.100%agree · 1Remakes and sequels aren't killing culture — audiences keep buying tickets to them.100%agree · 1