It’s even more impressive because the majority of other movies in the top 25 are either Marvel, Star Wars, or Disney branded, all of which have huge subcultures of people who have built their identity around their fandom. If you take out Cameron, you could reasonably conclude that reaching the top ten requires a…

To all those saying “I don’t get it, what’s the massive/historic appeal”... more and more, I keep thinking of how unapologetically environmentalist and anti-oligarchical these movies are.

there’s no logic here. for whatever reason cameron is really good at making movies that have broadly popular worldwide appeal on a scale that basically no other filmmaker can consistently accomplish.

I guess I’m not surprised but I am... at a loss. I never saw Avatar until I watched it the week before Way of Water came out. It was fine... good even. I mean, a pretty good action movie with really impressive CGI. I would say Cameron himself has made several movies that I thought were a lot better, and Avatar…

That’s fine...benign even. But then Oz kept! talking! “You know, that’s why children, girls don’t like their fathers’ smell. Their pheromones will actually repel their daughters because they’re not supposed to be together,” Oz told the hosts. “My daughters hate my smell.”

This. 

He’s not wrong biologically speaking, which is why 2nd cousins can legally marry in all 50 states. At that level, problematic recessive traits getting excessively reinforced typically only become a problem over several generations in a small population (a very small town, or perhaps early-modern European royalty)…

I don’t know.

It’s not that hard to tell a good Superman story. He’s a good guy who stands up to bullies. That’s the gratification the audience gets. The stakes come from the way sometimes the bad guys’ schemes are so villainous that Superman may not be able to overcome them. The dramatic growth comes from the fact that Superman…

Nerds will prefer to consume something familiar and terrible over anything new and good any day of the week. 

Donnie Yen’s character was. But yeah, mostly it was regular people.

Rogue One is top five SW for me (OT + Last Jedi), so if this is capturing its vibe then I’m optimistic.

This is just about perfectly lined up with my ideal version of Star Wars content.  I am so very, very on board with this.  Here’s hoping.  

I can see where he’s going with the production design and acting style, and those are all fine. Even quite good!

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Kanye is bipolar and he stopped taking his meds. Plus he’s probably surrounded by about 200 enablers.

Objectively bad opinion about his music. He is undeniably one of the most successful and influential artists of the 21st century. Shame about the mental illness though.

People basically fed his ego nonstop, before he even got famous.

I... I can kinda see where she’s coming from. I’m not comfortable enough yet to say “She’s right” or “She’s wrong”, but her stating definitively that she thinks “trans lives matter” and “trans lives are human rights” goes a long way already for me, in the face of her whole controversy.

Still the best version: