I hope to someday have as short a shelf life and minimal an influence as a movie that made two billion dollars, and then 13 years later had a sequel that made another two billion dollars.

If this is bait, it’s nigh-irresistible

You can do whatever you want.

No, as I said, I think pretty clearly, the thing the article quoted. Basically about naivete, lack of introspection, and self-seriousness being features of youth culture and the political left.  Not just those cultures of course, but notably within those cultures.  This shouldn’t be a point of debate.  

Never going to understand why people keep trying to rehabilitate one of the worst movies ever made. The thrill of an actual race or even of a movie where they use real cars is completely absent, the crowd reactions are terrible, the announcer is terrible, the faces people keep pulling and the kid keep pulling are…

Maybe listen to yourself? No one is saying you “must” listen to anything. No one is saying the appropriate response is to “just laugh.” No one is saying life isn’t tough. I just have some fairly superficial agreement with Seinfeld’s sentiment as expressed in the article.  Why is that an issue for you?

It’s probably only because of how toxic the discourse about everything relating to Episode 1 got and companies wanted to distance themselves from everything about it.

In context, I don’t find Jerry Seinfeld very likeable or agree with him when it comes to supporting Israel. Out of context, I agree with everything he said that was quoted in this article. The condescension may be annoying but it is well-earned.

1) Objectively and without context, this is better than The Marvels. The Marvels in its entire run made made $200m. This is going to make at least $300m and will likely end around $400m. In other words, in raw numbers, it’ll do twice as well.

Huh? Apes made $129 mil on a $160 mil budget just this weekend, and is the kind-of sequel to a movie that made $490 mil.

KotPotA cost $160 million to make and is doing well critically. The previous movie in the franchise made less than $500 million worldwide. Less than $150 million of that gross came from the American box office. Kingdom’s $56 million opening is roughly on par with War’s $56 million opening.

“What happened to Gadd was awful. The fact that people took his story and immediately turned it into an exploitative media sensation is awful.“

well I guess the important thing is to promote the interview by linking to it and making claims to be concerned for this woman's mental health

The sellouts at A24 are always taking a movie like Hereditary and insisting on the addition of a crowd-pleasing child decapitation scene.

Boy, Bryan Fuller just keeps running into assholes! Everyone he deals with is an asshole! What terrible luck!

his chronic lateness also helped them qualify for health care according to the article, so in many ways he’s also a union hero.

also like...i’m not gonna be working with him ever, so what do i care if he’s costing apple millions by being late? frankly that’s kind of cool.

I agree. It’s nice to have a story about a jerk just being a jerk and be able to go “wow that guy sucks” at the end instead of “well now I feel retroactively bad for enjoying their work and I can never watch those movies again without feeling a level of discomfort”

Yeah I was gonna say - it’s a low bar, but in really glad the worst of his unprofessional is chronic lateness and not, you know, sexual assault.

Jesus Christ, how miserable must Barsanti be to approach all his articles in such a butthurt way?!?!