And dolphins and the Little Mermaid, as well as waiting to be dolphins and the Little Mermaid.

Oh my god, they all love Titanic?

i hope the nice one wins.

I agree that the William = MiB reveal came up kind of hollow. There was no emotional weight behind it. MiB’s frustration could have had some palpable emotional pain/longing behind it, but mostly it just came across as petulant. Like the gamer who is so frustrated that there’s an easter egg out there that he MUST be…

He said several times to his brother in law that they needed to save her. He basically traveled to the very edge of the park trying to do that and when he got back she didn’t remember him and seemed to be just another host like all the others. He thought she was special but one reboot robbed him of the person/host he…

She was sexually assaulted.

I recommended ‘girl with the dragon tattoo’ to a work colleague and our boss overheard and enthusiastically said ‘bloody hell that film was pretty racy’. I looked at him and loudly asked him (so everyone could hear) ‘you mean the rape scene, you thought that was racy’. His nodding and smile faltered when he realised…

Yes. That’s it. It’s the director’s fault for not changing a part of the movie to reflect the actor, not the character’s, favorite team.

Well it’s not even in the same universe of “not okay” but they genuinely surprised Alan Rickman in his final scene in Die Hard by dropping him without warning on to his landing mat, hence his really really legit-looking surprise as he falls to his death in the movie. But they didn’t traumatize him and he thought it…

I’m thinking no. It’s only acceptable to show genuine fear and horror (rather than simulating those emotions) if we’re watching a woman. It’s not okay culturally to see a man who’s helpless and vulnerable.

Have you ever read Joaquin Phoenix on this? After he came back to Hollywood, he got a lot of questions on whether he channeled the grief he felt at River’s death into his portrayal.

Anyone even remotely familiar with the guy knows he’s an actor. What kind of actor refuses to let his character wear a hat because he, himself, doesn’t support the team on the hat? How petty and unprofessional is that? How was that even an issue?

Is this the pederast version of “Good Job, Gun Nuts!”???

Yeah, if this woman had, say, used animals that had already been killed for another reason I wouldn’t have had a problem with her display- would have found it distasteful, perhaps, but not morally reprehensible. I seem to remember she thought the killing itself was part of the art, though? Making a statement about how…

Thank you for detailing the catch-22; a vise-like trap set by aggressors in these types of situations. I also appreciated:

I love this! It’s the obvious answer, but I worry that the Oscars have set up these unspoken requirements that say the more grotesque “realness” actors throw themselves into, the more likely they are to win.

What I think of is Gone Girl. In one scene Ben Affleck’s character is supposed to wear a Yankees cap. Affleck doesn’t like the Yankees. He refused. Production shut down for four days while the director got on the phone with Affleck’s lawyers and agents and whatnot trying to get an actor to wear a hat. And that…

Ha! That’s what Laurence Olivier suggested to Dustin Hoffman,” My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”.

Adding: She tells people what happened for years, no one pays attention. He speaks up and everyone finally listens.

If she objects in the moment, she’s called unprofessional and is still pressured into doing it.