It was the '90s. AIDS had fucked everybody up. Ricki Lake had a whole episode dedicated to whether it was okay to kiss on the second date. And it's not like people have more of a sense of humor about womanizing now.

I was just thinking about Bond and related characters today. The whole "lonely broken man who does horrific, sanity-destroying things that are still allegedly justifiable" hero archetype is very 2000s and most definitely rings hollow now.

Lord, and I thought Californians had no sense of humor.

For actors in America, you need either of those two to escape the morons.

Coming up: Jason Statham has some very sincere feelings about the Vietnam War, Native American land rights, Montessori schools, arbitrary Hitler comparisons, hapkido, and the continuing nefarious influence of Vance Hartke and Lucille Ball.

Being a social media influencer is a prerequisite for many jobs now.

Normal people don't have self-esteem.

Now they favor massive social media following. Or being British/Australian.

But I don't want it to fade into the background. It was a big deal. People are turning it into an indictment. I don't want it to stop hurting.

What about a short film exploring the public reaction to the attacks and conveying the sense of immediacy that has since been lost?

In other news, Against All Enemies will definitely never be made.

Those poor, defenseless Taliban!

Documentary Now season 3, anyone?

They are truly the masters of gaming the system like crazy for awards attention while giving no shits about quality, even actively working against it.

The fact that The Lost City of Z was pushed into the new year for wide release because the Weinsteins wanted to cut the shit out of it and Gray said no makes me like that movie and hate them more.

This is fun. The split controller function on this is not.

They didn't think it would survive past one season.

Heroes Season 2 would've sucked no matter what. The show was originally envisioned as a season-by-season anthology series, but that had never been done, and still hasn't been done on network TV. The story of the first season had a proper ending, so continuing it was contrived by nature.

It's not a one-to-one comparison, but I kept thinking "you know we have Natalie Portman."

He's playing a jackass on Silicon Valley right now.