She specifically thanks Ruby and ignores the Doctor during her entire speech at the end until she turns to him and says she’s annoyed he’s still talking. You may have missed it because that’s how it works in real life. LOL

Naw... this is how it works in real life. And if you know what’s going on earlier without piecing it together from the clues, the final moment doesn’t work as well. You need the gaslighting, you need the dog whistles, you need the casual disrespect, you need all of that for the self-destructive choices to ring true.

Elle Fanning is an established star? I know she’s the Fanning sister who was supposed to blow up in Super 8 back when Super 8 was a thing that was supposed to be a thing, but isn’t her career basically being really good in The Great, a show nobody actually watched, for two seasons?

Briefly thought I read Young Frankenstein and queued up the wrong set of puns.

Think that one insanely good “Bad Traveling” episode with The Thanapod and the sailing crew. Except every episode is that good and intense and creative and the stakes are always constantly that high.

Netflix had nothing to do with The Expanse, it was a Syfy channel show. And Marco Polo had a 33% Rotten Tomatoes score, a budget only surpassed by Game of Thrones, and it still somehow got a second season.

Well, if the NSA says so...

So movies, music, and novelsaren’t art because focus testing and market research?

Didn’t you just reinforce the point, though, that he was given opportunities that turned out to be crap and the industry pretty much called it a day with him?

It isn’t to create generational talent

They don’t lay people off to change direction. They lay people off to cut outflow so dividends to stockholders go up and they can keep their jobs. They then hire people to work for less money and cut another bunch of people next year.

Even in the first film, I found it weird that Riley’s emotions are multi-gender but other people’s seem to strictly align with the gender of the person they inhabit. Unless Riley is a stealth gender-fluid character?

Toy Story 4 is a result of the hit sequel trifecta: profitable IP, ongoing universe, hugely positive reviews.

I feel like the relatively tepid critical reception (I do not care about box office) of Pixar’s last several years’ worth of original films (as opposed to sequels) is because their blend of whimsy and deep emotion (with stellar writing, plotting, and casting) was pretty amazing for a while, but now we’ve seen it…

Skull Island, like Pacific Rim, is pulpy fun that knows exactly what it’s doing.

I still remember the age I was back in the 90's when a ride wait first crossed the 15 minute mark. It’s wild that Disney can make so much money by not having people ride its attractions.

This is literally all anyone has ever asked. And I take it to reflect that Maya Hawke is confident enough as an actress and artist and comfortable enough in her career to know she’s going to be weighed favorably on her merits against her advantages and it doesn’t make her less if someone else got screwed over it. To…

Except the economic motivations of those hiring nepo children isn’t to fill a role that sells a lot of tickets, it’s to create a generational talent with access to the same network of contacts and producers that the parent had. Lily Rose-Depp, Scott Eastwood, Zosia Mamet. These aren’t actors getting jobs because…

The AVERAGE farm household income post-expenses is 1.7 million dollars per year. In rural areas. And is heavily subsidized by the US government.

For reasons I can’t explain, rappers haven’t aged as well as rock stars, jazz musicians or blues, pop, or country artists.