Yeah, I don't know how kids survive now either. I've started listening to blues, bluegrass and off-brand country, like I swore I never would, just because there are emotions and narratives about people. At least I feel rewarded for becoming invested in it.

I dunno, I think maybe the disconnect at the aggressiveness and anger, that's been reductively labelled macho swagger here, is because they were too young for the music. Or maybe from a social class(es) that repress emotional expression.

The problem with the divide in quality of Julie and Julia wasn't the acting. It was the fact that one woman devoted her life to learning about something and struggling to communicate it in a new way alongside friends, while the other was preforming a pre-scripted exercise of another's work in public for the praise of…

"…dates from a period when it was fashionable for [British] moviemakers to depict America, and the city that American movies came from in particular, as one big, gross sick joke."

Look, I'm sure Loki is a valuable asset, but I'm so TIRED of him. Between the scary-orthodoxy of Hiddleston's fan base, and his constant baiting of it…no, just no. When the first Thor came out, I liked his character best. Now,there are whole swaths of internet fandom that I avoid on the off-chance of running into…

It's a calculated product from risk-averse multinationals seeking the most reliable return on investment. Which means, it suffers from trying to find a way to take cheap shots at Americans for the British audience, without actually doing it to keep an American one. It's practically literary.

You're the second person so far that mentions seeing things alone as a kid. I'll chime in as the third person who had a movie theater as babysitter. As early as 9, I'd get dropped off with my younger brother to wander around a movie theater/strip mall for hours and hours in the summer, while the parents…

Yeah, it was a bygone era when people could just live their lives like, ya know, people, without photographing and framing it on social media to "stage their personal brand". God, I hate the 21c so damn much.

Yeah, the nanobots were programmed to stop dampening electric energy, but they weren't self-destructed. You could program those suckers to do lots of things, which is where my hope for season 2 lies.

An adult survivor with a history of repeatedly and unpredictably being abandoned by abusive parents living one paycheck away from poverty would have an earned neediness. A regular-rich kid sponging off rich friends trying to find a way to maximize their inherited entitlements that they'll enjoy, while making a…

And while US tv shovels foreign actors into its leads, European entertainment leaders fight to keep US entertainment out. I understand their position, not wanting to get swamped in outside entertainment to the point it erodes their identity. I just wish American leaders understood this too.
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That's why an internet tv movement with a substantive search about exploring our national, regional and local identities will be important for more than just the artistic content.

*eyeroll* Nations, all nations, exist only to ensure the health and progress of their people. That's the point of them. No one in the rest of the world will give you a gold star for those sentiments. They won't "like you more". They'll thank fate for such an easy mark, tell you what you want to hear, and take what…

Bullshit. When America's status was inarguably a superpower, advocating for the domestic worker could have been (but never should have been) construed as nationalism. In a world that transitions into a state of post-US hegemony, then we as a nation have an obligation to our fellow citizens to take issues of employment…

Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Coulson, Nick Fury…ya know the movie that was actually good.

I agree completely. Their emotional reads also tend to feel synthetic. The British actors also have a problem shaking off their own status anxiety when required to play working class characters. Seriously, find me a lower middle class Marine that speaks with the rigid, self-conscious enunciation that Damien Lewis uses…

Commonwealth actors come from a culture that has 1) subsidizes formal training, and 2) an entrenched, persistent class system. That produces actors that are technically competent and do as they're told, which is good enough for the accounting and finance-focused, multinational corporations that control most Hollywood…

Uh, no. The international gross contributes over half the totals for a movie. The struggle has been to find something vague enough to be acceptable to several continents. An American movie built for American tastes and domestic grosses DOESN'T GET MADE. So, pack up your kneejerk prejudice, it's expired.

That just means they do as they're told like submissive tools, which is more appealing to the accountants that now run entertainment.

I approach it like every other music: just listen to stuff until something sticks and read more about it when and if you want to. I do this, but I also avoid conversations about music and music fans in general and I'm happy. The piece that got me into it was Joan Jeanrenaud's Axis from her Strange Toys album. I've…