I’ll take your word for it. I always figured it was seen more as the closest thing the film had one of the signature sequences from the earlier films. It’s also the only one I remember, so that might be it.

Does the refrigerator sequence get mocked online? I always thought that was considered sort of an outlier in a movie otherwise viewed negatively.

This news is worse than that time I was a funny occupation for a person who was famous in the 80s.

one of Hollywood’s most exciting filmmakers

And from the team that brought you Crash.

Black Donnellys was alright, but it’s no Five Towns

But it wasn’t left in relative obscurity. She lost her job because she defended him, and questioned whether what he said is racist. People can take issue with that if they want, but that’s why she’s not on the show anymore.

Agree with most of this. I was curious to see which reviewers would be fooled by Bowen Yang’s “and if I say this earnest thing, then that earnest thing, then slowly raise my voice while looking into the camera, THEN THE AUDIENCE WILL FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO APPLAUD EVEN THOUGH WHAT I’M SAYING DOESN’T REALLY MAKE…

At land speed, we’ve gone from “we need to have conversations about these issues” to “don’t you dare ask questions, just keep your head down, follow the script and move on.”

Is the word “don’t get it for us, we’re not that good”?

“I don’t care anymore, but I’ll never forget about it, and I’m not even offended, but I  just wrote a whole article.”

I mean, I never did a study measuring quality vs. diversity, I was just saying that this pitch for a “new” take on National Treasure seems similar to a lot of other rebrands on old properties, where the only thing that actually seems new is to make the cast more diverse (see: The Equalizer, But With A Black Woman).…

Everyone’s entitled to their opinion. What I meant is that I, personally, don’t approach an artistic work through the lens of “is this diverse enough?” If the end result is diverse and inclusive, then great, but prioritizing that over the actual quality is, in my opinion, the wrong way to go about it.

I’m not disagreeing, but that seems defeatist and bleak to me. I don’t see representation as the ideal goal of art in and of itself. 

I’m looking for it anywhere where simply changing the gender or race of the main character isn’t equated with creativity.

“How about an old idea, but a different gender/race?” Looking forward to the future of art.

It’s sort of a free country. He’s not fat anymore, so you wouldn’t be hit for shaming.

He was representing Miramax, the distributor. Someone else was running Miramax, who is also not very likable. 

Maybe they’ll do another post on this, but apparently the director clarified that the NC-17 comment was a joke, but that he’s open to showing the R-rated stuff.

Thanks for letting me know; that’s really interesting, although I wonder if the board’s logic would be that part of the “graphic” language is actually describing things that happen within the film (the girlfriend accidentally having sex with a corpse, for example).