I love the original a lot and admit its the sort of film that a sequel can work with.

Charisma and being funny always help. If I just read the Wikipedia page for Paulie Walnuts I’d rightfully conclude what a scumbag screw him. But Tony Sirco rung every quirk, joke, and charm out of the script and its so easy to just ignore all the casual murder.

To be fair a few characters at least start off semi likable like Shiv. But by the end yeah its scumbag central. But, hmmm, maybe the fact the show isn’t about a war makes it more palpable? Or perhaps the characters were more charismatic and made it easier to ignore the faultlines?

Thats a good point.  I mean life was often miserable when GOT ended.  Now?  I turn on the news to, a dictator invading and killing hundreds of thousands in Eastern Europe.  An allied nation casually blowing up civilians every day.  A presidential election that threatens to tear democracy apart.  Who wants to sit back…

I think I laughed at the third birthing scene.  It was like, okay guys you got the point across the first time, now we are reaching near comedic repetition where your protagonist queen gave birth and now is giving a meeting in afterbirth mess.

It really cannot be stated enough how having nobody likable is deadly for drama.  Yes, there are conflicts with no clear good factions, hell the War of the Roses that inspired the show is very messy.  But your lying if you must make every single individual involved either conniving, cruel, or merely interested in…

It sounds like somehow 20 years later, Tommy doesn't have any idea how filmmaking works.  That's honestly charming, no matter how much time passes, the concept of moviemaking doesn't seem to evolve for this man.

Just wanted to let you know, I'm sure your a good parent, and I'm so sorry for all the bullshit that's been swirling these past many years.  Scary enough for me as a trans adult.  Children?  Well, I'm glad they have someone to deeply loves them and cares. 

The better Jaws actor won out.

His reaction to the Jaws stageshow starring Robert Shaws son was almost comically bad.

Shes actually distantly related to Alfred Dreyfus so IT COUNTS!

Boy he’s more washed up then the shark.

Ah crap your right, he died very young.  I was mixing him up with the kids in Bednobs and Broomsticks.

I am honestly glad to have had them long as we did.  I guess that means its just Julie and the kids left now, Winifred Banks passed a few months back.

I’ll put it this way. I asked the AI about some pirates, and I noticed it was basically just quoting Wikipedia pages. Including a Wikipedia page I’ve heavily edited.

It seems he is finally gone. His Trump documentary was the last one and I haven’t heard a peep about him in years.

I see you also saw Dan Olsons video.  That was indeed troubling, but Britain is so obsessed with class in a way that the US even isn't, that I suppose its not shocking.  Not a Jamie Oliver fan.

Upon reflection its probably because it was the 20th anniversary of the film, released May 7th 2004.

My understanding (I remember these discussions when his sequel came out in 2017) is that yep he didn't release food logs.  But people over the years tried to approximate what was shown roughly and the results were not even remotely close.  Especially the liver portion, which yeah that looks a lot more like an alcohols…

There is an argument about starting the ball for better food documentaries, Food Ink I feel is faaaaar better.  I just have no tolerance for Michael Moore like shenanigans, I think having to go through peer review has wiped away tolerance for people who just fudge data.