You’re oversimplifying. The need that streamers (or cam people if you want to give it that) provide is for people who are lacking intimacy. It’s obvious THIS is not the best way to get intimacy, but that is the draw for these people because parasocial relationships can be deceptive.

It’s best to simply handwave them as celebrities at this point. These days it’s a distinction without a purpose as people like Logan Paul or Kaitlyn absolutely swim in circles that bring them in touch with other celebrities and by extension other people of power.  That’s their peer group, not the viewers.

So you have one pop culture moment fighting against another pop culture moment. I mean, that tracks.

Sometimes a victim doesn’t have to be perfect.  Sometimes an antagonist doesn’t have to be reasonable.

I think the problem is the type of person who might be inclined to “make someone feel bad” by doing killing themselves is often not the most logical person to begin with so going to the next level of framing someone is just probably a bridge too far. It’s fine for fiction I guess, but it ring’s hollow where if the…

Honestly, I’m not sure I buy Faludi’s reasoning there. Douglas was the star in terms of selling the movie (at the time, he was a very big name so you can start with out of touch Star right there with drinking problems if I’m remembering correctly) and the executive’s language while outwardly expressing sexism simply…

China is a bigger market revenue wise but it has a lot of drawbacks for a company (especially an American one.) Maybe if/when China comes back out of this nationalist/mercantilist phase the calculus will change for businesses, but a lot of American (or Western businesses) have to offset that revenue against…

Exactly. If you want to make a movie now, how much value is there in thinking about the theatrical experience when all that detail you populated in the bottom right part of the screen is compressed into a 50 inch monitor on 1st viewing? It renders a lot of cinematographer/director conversations moot.

This is always a case of whose Ox is being gored. It’s absolutely fair to say an unfaithful adaptation can be superior. But it’s also fair to say that when something is made, “who is this made for” and “is this a rational decision?” GOT is an excellent example of making a show FOR the readers of the books, at least…

Love Salma Hayak and I think this story is more tongue-in-cheek than the chat commentariat is taking it - but “Harvey Winestein came in to my trailer and suggested we just spoon for a bit.”

If you don’t take it the way Perry is saying it, as goofy coworkers figuring things out, you’re left with the creepy aspect.…

You’re absolutely not. I love that film for being a romantic comedy with a few more rough edges than the usual.

It’s mildly interesting to me that it felt like in 1990 it was impossible to tell a story about two straight men having a deep friendship with anything that wasn’t superficial because of the fear that sort of relationship would be deemed too gay by the public and here we are in 2022 and we’re in the exact same place…

While I can definitely appreciate the media pointing out Giger’s influence, I can’t help feeling I agree with the developer that people are overdoing it. It’s like if someone does a game with multicolored squares and everyone suddenly calls it Mondrain and mentions it excessively. It’s, after a fashion, reductive to…

Hah. That reminds me of people talking about Rent A Girlfriend last season. That show was buried before episode 1 due to fan sentiment about the manga arcs and it’s score by the end of the season on MAL was mildly hilarious vs. what was actually on the screen.  Mind you, Rent A Girlfriend at its best is a specific…

There’s a lot of theories, but I think it’s probably more simple than many claim. Overwatch at its core was a 1st person reskin of a different genre (MOBA) which is highly competitive, almost toxically so and hugely predicated both on mechanical skills but also metas. This by way of a more Team Fortress 2 style of…

Heh - don’t worry. This is my pet theory and I rarely get much traction on it.

I never said it was. I said losing ones shit over accents is a protectionist behavior that works that way (if you choose to say the ubiquity of US movies and music imperialism, sure thing). I don’t think Brits do it on purpose, but I think there’s a reason Jordan Peele’s Black Actor sketch was made and ironically his…

It’s a no win situation. The real answer is real, life altering consequences for abuse of the system.

I really wish more people would read responses like yours. I understand the anger in the ACAB responses, but the Police do have a duty (at least at the beginning of this story) to take threats seriously. Where everyone is valid is in their anger at the end of it.

I’d keep in mind, having a problem with pronunciation is how UK actors have found massive employment gains. As screwball as it sounds, the British fans will tantrum about bad American versions of British accents which tends to result in UK actors mostly filling those roles now (because it’s easier for them to find and…