I must have read a sanitized version because I'm pretty certain I would have remembered that. Then again, maybe not... It's possible the movie version with the orange oompa loompas overwrote that odious tidbit.

I have no idea but am curious to know how LOTR and Elf were received. Those films used a lot of perspective work vs pure CGI, and the characters were not technically human. I don't recall any conversation then but I could very much be wrong. Are oompa loompas supposed to be human? If yes, there's some weird racist…

It made me raise both eyebrows so much that I no longer have eyebrows.

That’s the thing. My family of four went to see the Mario movie. We couldn't bring the kids to Oppenheimer.

I think having to go back to 1999 says something in itself about how things have changed.

The true test would probably be Tom Cruise in a Serious Art House Drama from a director who isn't a superstar in their own right.

He doesn’t seem particularly interested in saving “cinema” broadly anyway. More like saving a specific type of action movie.

I can't honestly say the last time I heard anyone say they were going to see a movie for a specific actor at all, including Cruise. The closest, I think, was actually Ryan Reynolds in Free Guy. No one I know who saw Cruise's recent movies were seeing them for him, especially since they were sequels.

I can't tell if you're joking but wikipedia says NDG. I assume you're joking.

Absolutely! I think millennials and Xers have a lot in common (you guys had the dotcom burst, right?). We both started out offline and then the world got very internet. The difference is, at 15, I was playing around with the tools you guys were creating, wishing I could be cool like you.

Millennials are years out of university. I'm in my late 30s and have kids and a real grown up office job. My university experience (in Canada) did not reflect any of those three points. What millennials are grappling with is, I would argue, the opposite of what he's saying: we were raised to think that if we worked…

Probably a combination of being told the world was going to shit but don’t worry, we’d grow up to fix it (and it was all on us, good luck kids!) because if we worked hard, we could do anything, and then realizing that being saddled with student loan debt and graduating in a recession (as I did, anyway) while being…

If I were rich and charming, this is definitely the kind of random thing I would do. Welsh is delightful.

On the one hand I’m pleased that my generation is known for being thoughtful and progressive. On the other, I know he probably meant gen z and just uses millennial as a general term of abuse (much like gen z does for boomers when they really mean gen x much of the time).

Me but I was an uptight loser 

I don't think I need this. Where is the adaptation of the great glass elevator instead?

That sounds like loads of fun! Your own private film festival. Bonus if you get those vip seats with food and drink service.

It does have a weird sort of pseudo posh Victorian thing going on, though

I’m intrigued. Captain Marvel forces a different narrative, but I admit it always seemed a bit that—forced.

Is the movie any good? I'm one of the many who hasn't gone to see it.