I haven’t seen the movie because it and Minari were impossible to see without putting yourself in danger. Actually I think they are both now able to be seen for $20 each. Or I suppose I could have pirated them. So I don’t know how the performance is, I just know that Hopkins borderline brags about not doing legwork,…

a goyische version of Arthur Miller’s The Price?

I think there could have been some way to establish that undermining your boss, openly trying to steal their paramour, and threatening your coworkers with a knife were somehow not always firing offenses. His character just came across as kind of...a violent idiot? Like we know he is cruising for a downfall, but at…

Yeah I forgot, I used to get threatened with a knife three or four times a day over my cornflakes, heck just the other day my boss said “Get me those TPS reports or I’ll cut ya! Like I scalped Bolton! He ain’t so pretty now!”

Not that I care about Hopkins winning, it’s only his second even if he mainly phones it in these days (and even admits he does no preparatory work) and I wasn’t as high on Boseman’s performance as everyone else was (particularly the denouement was handled pretty poorly by the director and didn’t make a lot of…

I remember a long time ago fan campaigns worked for “Jericho” (mailing nuts) and I think “Once and Again” (some billboards)...in both cases it turned out, as I recall, that the fans were a vocal minority and the reborn shows did not have the massive ratings the campaigns indicated would arrive.

they might do this but wouldn’t that smell too much like Dark Phoenix? and that storyline has already bombed TWICE

I’ve always thought comic book movies put too much emphasis on killing off characters and needlessly curtailing storylines to trilogies, etc.

I think the worst part of it was that they somehow managed to rob yet another minority of their celebratory moment. Best Picture is when everybody gathers onstage like at the end of SNL. They short circuit that, end with Best Actor instead of Best Actress, and then it’s “White Guy Who Couldn’t Be Bothered To…

oh come on, you know that’s not how they do it.  Michael Caine in Cider House Rules?  Jeff Bridges in that dumb country music movie instead of the next year in True Grit, Denzel in Training Day?  The list goes on.  They nearly always give that award cumulatively and nearly never give Best Supporting Actress…

it depends, it’s like a security in the way a painting is like a security, sort of.  you could get the copyright to the image as well or only one link to the image could be in circulation and you could be a sole owner...or the issuer could vow or contract only to have a certain number in circulation...or it could be…

I thought the In Memoriam speeding past was great because I thought it meant they were giving time to the actual parts of the show they want to spend time on...and then they spent like half an hour on those stupid pat-on-the-back awards.

she was obviously referring to the underwhelming segment of that triptych with Toby Dammit, Metzengerstein

You know, he has always let right wingers on his show and then pretended to be surprised when they disrupt the show and repeat the party line over and over. (He would always do this “that’s not what you said before the cameras were rolling!” thing) Dana Rohrabach and Darrell Issa come to mind. The episodes where he…

“And the first thing I will outlaw is myself!”

That really does go directly to my point about framing this as a lifestyle choice, though. Saying having a job that pays more with more benefits and less of a chance of being thrown in the garbage if you pull a back muscle is better is NOT BEING PATRONIZING. Shit, saying that more education is better than less…

hey, take it from somebody with a three foot schvantz, you can’t believe everything you read

If this wins best picture, 50 years from now people will look at it and wonder why there weren’t court battles about the conditions depicted in the movie, or if they love the job so much why they are barely at subsistence level, that’s the problem with making the handshake with the big corporation

one of the many filings for the Trump election debacle had a live blue link in a citation.  I’m sure when the judge touched it with their finger it opened up a whole dimension with actual proof of any of their claims (maybe they rubbed it with hallucinogenic)

So the book wasn’t about systematic failures?  I’m looking forward to “Nickel and Dimed: The Musical” with the song “A Nickel Sure is Nice!”