It’s interesting to see how many people are down on the entire concept of a remake of West Side Story considering how inherent adaption is to the stage musical. It sounds like Spielberg succeeded in finding a reason for the production to exist, which is exciting.

Although the Virgin Mary dildo doesn’t hurt.

Why does your site keep using slideshow formats when the majority of your viewers hate it?

**mild Into the Spiderverse spoilers, in case anyone hasn’t seen it**
I wonder if this is a fake-out. I don’t see them killing off Peter (and I hope they don’t, as Holland has been my favorite live action Spider-Man by far), but I could see him eventually retiring/going into hiding and mentoring Miles Morales, kind of…

And 100% agree that all of the Stark tech (and even Stark himself - sorry RDJ!) detracts from the Spiderman films instead of adding to them.

“gosh but it’s so hard to make abusers suffer consequences for their actions”

if they held this standard then they wouldnt/couldnt award anyone.
which is fine i dont care about awards but lets not act like these two or the only people who have been nominated who have done such awful things

I think you’ve simply rephrased the original post’s central question: where does the Academy draw the line? What “values” cannot be breached?

So your proposed rule is that we should bar people accused of sexual misconduct from Grammy nominations, as long as we also think the artist sucks, but if the nomination is really deserving, then we should have some higher standard?

I think this may be better “policed” through who wins awards, not who is nominated for them. The Grammy voters are free to use whatever criteria they have in their own heads. To the extent they find C.K. and Manson disgusting (and I hope they do), they can vote for the award to go to someone else. But I agree with you…

Thinking award shows are just silly industry posturing is a perfectly fair opinion. I’m skeptical, however, that you’d apply that thinking in other contexts. By your logic, you shouldn’t really be upset at the Oscars’ frequent lack of black nominees, since the Oscars are just self-congratulatory industry awards and…

Jerry Lee Lewis and Jerry Seinfeld comes to mind.

I totally get the decision - it’d be a super slippery slope for the music industry, where do you draw the line?  Short of being convicted of a serious crime, I don’t see them disbarring anyone for consideration.  Like do you ban Ted Nugent for spreading anti-vax bullshit?  Do you ban racists and lose half the country…

Yeah, and it presents the same issue as when Spotify briefly said they were going to ban R Kelly’s music from the platform. Are they going to remove all the classic rock acts too? Last year the Grammys gave Iggy Pop a lifetime achievement award - well, in the 70s he was “dating” a thirteen year old Sable Starr.

No, I understand what you’re saying, and tend to agree. It just doesn’t seem workable that those criteria could be inserted into these kind of awards.

If he’s feeling his age at 25 (an age at which more and more research indicates might be the true age of adulthood) I shudder to think how he’ll feel in 10 or 20 years.

The utility (and value) of NFT’s will be created through social media platforms. For many digital representations is > physical representation and (if/when) Twitter/TikTok (discord backed away from it) roll out the ability to display flair on a social media profile that will be a turning point. We see how bananas…

I’m halfway dreading seeing this because it almost feels like it can’t live up to that incredible “Life on Mars?” trailer. I’m more excited for this than I have been for any Anderson movie since There Will Be Blood.

I kind of like the idea that they brought them on set to hang out (and mess with the rumour mill).

I fucking love they’ve kept the classic Green Goblin costume. Good times.