“We’re just carpet men here. Your hardwood floors need a carpet? We provide it.”

A class act as always! Reminds of David Lynch: made great genre-defining movies 20-30 years ago and now is enjoying his own personal hobbies (woodworking in Lynch’s case), making music, and generally being a positive person.

It’s catching up, though. Just one more random sequel that, say, stars Danielle Harris and ignores her death in The Curse of Michael Myers and it’s pretty much there.

I imagine the actual way Ryan Reynolds was a dick to him was telling him that he doesn’t want to work with rapists, and since that’s not a very compelling argument for Miller, he pulled up this anecdote as the closest thing to Reynolds being rude to him that he could manage.

Maybe it’s just me, but this seems like a nothing story.

“I’m not going to visit the White House again,” says Putin. “Those guys have been super rude to me. I’m not going to their state dinner no matter how many times they ask.”

The first one is still the best one anyhow.

Sort of unrelated, but Graham Norton is one of the best talk show hosts on TV, period, and it’s nice to see him get some coverage here... even if it is about his interaction with Weinstein.

If it was porn, they’d use a $30 butt, not a $30,000 fake butt.

memorable The White Lotus’ love scene

I look forward to the rational and grounded comments this article will generate.

I’m out if it does.

On the one hand I can’t think of anything dumber or crasser than the inclusion of a CGI ghost fetus in one’s movie, but on the other hand I think there’s a clear difference between symbolically depicting one person’s trauma over getting an abortion and “anti-abortion propaganda.”

I got the sense she wanted to be a parent, but it suggested that the men controlling her and her life essentially made her get the abortions, and that’s why she viewed the abortion as a bad thing that she felt uncomfortable about. I really don’t think that’s the same thing as saying “abortions are bad things”…

I’ve seen the movie, and I can confirm that Twitter severely overreacted. There are controversial moments in this, sure, but going from how they overexaggerated it, I thought it would be more provocative than it was.

It seems to me, as someone who has not seen this movie and only has this article and a write-up in the New York Times to go by, that this is a ridiculous overreaction to a film that is trying to be artsy or whatever in its unconventional choices. This is not a standard biopic. It sounds like a terrible movie, but…

Why is it misogynistic to view Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a story about transactional love?

Did anyone actually bother to read the interview, or are you just reading the tweets? Cause even by the tweeter’s own admission, in literally the next tweet in her thread, it’s clear that Dominik did a tremendous amount of research. He just found a lot more tragedy than many do when they watch her performances. Which…

...or candy.

Illusions, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money.