For sure. My point bringing up Onward wasn’t to suggest they regret releasing it on VOD so fast. They didn’t really have another choice.  I’m just saying that such a release likely didn’t produce anywhere close to the revenue of a regular theatrical release, because if it had been a money maker for them, we likely…

I don’t think there’s been a quantum leap, but I think it’d be wrong to pretend that there hasn’t been any movement forward. You said in your previous comment that Jimmy Carter couldn’t get elected today. That’s might be true. But we’ve still only 8 years past when Obama last won a national election, something he did…

No it wasn’t, but I think people born in 1990 as opposed to 1950 benefited from growing up in a less segregated society and with an age cohort that was less white than the one before it. That obviously didn’t exterminate racism from white millennials, but I do think it made the racial attitudes and its expressions of…

I didn’t say it wasn’t. I was responding to a comment wondering how someone who witnessed the Civil Rights era wouldn’t be more enlightened than someone even older. My response about how Lee Atwater was unmoved by it isn’t all that different than what I’d say about the tiki torch bearers in Charlottesville. Not…

Disagree. Mulan has an enormous $200+ budget that needs to be recouped. That’s be hard to do through a Disney+ release. I mean Eurovision may have a lot of buzz, but how much money is the movie actually generating for Netflix? The Trolls World Tour release strategy could work, but with a much more modest budget, it…

They’ve already killed that mandate, at least temporarily.  Now anything that was intended for theatrical release before corona hit is eligible even if it never gets shown in a theater at all.

Same!  The taboo the pull out your phone is strong and that’s as helpful for me as a viewer who gets directed watching staff at home as it is for the people in the theater who don’t watch to be distracted by other people’s phones.

I’ve legit been worried about this. I still love seeing movies in the theaters. It’s the only place a movie is likely to get my undivided attention, and I have a comfy and pretty quiet theater within 10 minutes of my house that I went to often as I could manage. That theater is an AMC so I got spooked when there…

Sure he lived through it, but the fights of the Civil Rights era wouldn’t have been so hard fought if there weren’t plenty of people siding with the people with the dogs, firehoses and batons. The youth were more sympathetic to black activists than their parents were because there were more people loudly protesting…

Of course it was because it was because he knew he was dying. The point is you’re unlikely to express contrition for things you don’t understand are wrong. For his first 39 years, Lee Atwater lived his life as if he would have the rest of his life to atone for the things he did while he was relatively young and…

Lee Atwater at least seemed to realize by the end of his life (after all of the damage was done) what a horrible shit he was.  I doubt Trump and his ilk will ever have that level of self awareness.

None of it actually being true seems more likely because this is ultimately pseudoscience. I know what my full chart looks like, including all of my aspects. They (particularly its conjunction with Venus) are in positions to theoretically strengthen my moon’s influence, not weaken it.

I was admittedly being pretty flippant with the “sociable and outdoorsy” descriptor. I don’t really mesh with any of Sagittarius’s other qualities either, including their restlessness, optimism or directness. 

My chart is weird as fuck. Not only is the Scorpto Sun-Sag Moon-Leo Rising a weird combination (and makes me sound so much more interesting and intense than I am in real life LOL), my planets are all kinda dog piled in one quarter of the wheel, and I have two clusters of planets (Saturn,/Jupiter/Mercury /Pluto and…

Mine does not! I have a Sagittarius moon, and I’m not sociable or outdoorsy enough for that to make any sense. I do like to travel, (but then, who doesn’t?) so I guess there’s that. It’s only somewhat less absurd that what my Leo rising is supposed to say about me.

And even if he hadn’t explicitly said that, why would any be expecting an announcement now? The convention is still over three weeks away, and it’s become tradition to wait until practically the last minute to make your announcement. Biden himself was announced as Obama’s pick just two days before the start of the…

This is an amateurish assessment given that anyone who takes astrology serious (which I did when I was young and silly) would tell you that one’s sun sign is an overrated aspect of your chart. If you’re too lazy to consider one’s whole chart, at least look at their moon and rising signs.

Scorpios unite!  

You’re going to make me dig the movie out again (the only clip I could find of that scene cuts off before the end), but I’m pretty sure the scene did not happen that way as I’m pretty sure Alyssa’s history with men was concealed to the audience until Banky dropped the bomb on Holden that Alyssa had had sex with her…

It’s been a long time but my memory is not that bad. You can feel free the correct me with specifics, but I’m pretty sure that scene with Alyssa and her girlfriends featured her trying to avoid revealing to them that she was dating a guy (didn’t they call her out for avoiding using gendered pronouns?) and acted embarr…