"I won one Oscar before, but I feel like my newest project should have merited recognition, I can't believe I lost."

I have difficulty imagining that GRRM has much personal experience with just about anything that he writes about in GOT. Something tells me that he's never been a part of court intrigue, fought for his life with a sword, sacked a city, freed slaves, raised dragons, lead an army, been a little person, a eunuch, or…

Having money means there's a whole bunch of problems you NEVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH. Like starving, being homeless, choosing work over life. Having money doesn't mean life is great but it gives you the opportunity to live a GREAT LIFE. Take it from someone who knows what it's like to have bigger problems then, "I feel…

I think you may have misinterpreted my point. I'm not saying that those feelings are invalid—I'm saying that they've had centuries of attention already and a lot of other people are struggling in silence.

And it really does feel like another "white guys have vague problems and that's important" story which would be fine if it wasn't yet another of those stories in a sea of other stories like that.

But do you really think people don't "get" the concept that "money doesn't buy happiness" at this point? It doesn't seem new or compelling to me at all.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but being broke will make you miserable in much more concrete and sympathetic ways.

Clearly, you know fewer assholes than I do.

Slightly related as it's also a movie about a white middle class guy. I saw Boyhood the other night and while it had its flaws, I felt (as a middle class white person) that this movie was the most realistic portrayal of a middle class family I've seen - especially Patricia Arquette's character Olivia.

Garden State is the Catcher in the Rye of movies. Young men say they love it because they think it makes them look interesting or smart.

"(Note for the writers of 2026's Garden State reboot: Missed opportunity to have him work at a MALAISE-ian restaurant, imo. Be the change.)"

It was never good, and thus cannot be good again.

Will you watch Napoleon Dynamite and then tell me why it sucks, please? I think you'd be funnier than me.

No author has any duty to represent any marginalized populations, but it does annoy me to no end when straight male writers get really into describing thier female characters' "curious" same-sex forays, but do no such thing for the male characters. Martin is guilty of this (see: Dany and Irri, Cersei and…

I am currently online dating and struggling to find someone who uses punctuation.

"No, we all know what your pet issue is."

I disagree. I'm an artist, and while criticism may get to me sometimes, I understand that I'm not making art in a vacuum. At the end of the day, I'm making art for my audience. That doesn't mean I bend to any and all opinions on my work (which would of course be impossible) or that I compromise on my vision, but I…

Right, exactly. A ton of the comments here are like, "BUT HE CAN WRITE ANYTHING HE WANTS! QUIT TELLING WRITERS WHAT TO WRITE!"

People comment on fiction.

No one's demanding he write gay characters. No one's demanding anything. It's critique, it's an important part of any artform. When this is a writer who had no issues depicting violent rape and sex scenes with minors, but says he can't write gay sex scenes....of course eyebrows will be raised. People are allowed to…