But what a fucking crap piece of devolving humiliation, simultaneously nihilistic and priggishly self-righteous. I want so hard to never see that one again.

Not sure why he hasn’t been declared dead yet, but he’s definetely, unfortunately, gone. Down one of steeper sides of Baldy or adjacent peaks.

The Road is McCarthy’s most hopeful book really. The boy definetely ended up with a good group of people.

Pretty much agree with everything you said about American History X. It’s a ridiculously facile examination of racism. It continually posits the characters’ racism, and turn from racism, blossoming from a series of extraordinarily convenient violent acts. It doesn’t confront the real roots of white supremacy in any…

Or Romper Stomper, which launched Russel Crowe’s career, or Higher Learning, where one of the main characters becomes a Neo-Nazi, or even Apt Pupil. These were all in the 90's, right around when I graduated high school. Not only was I already aware of the threat of Ne0-Nazi’s in real life because of going to punk…

I just watched Threads for the first time a few months ago. Amazing movie. I can’t believe it was first broadcast on BBC Two. Would probably watch it again someday, but not anytime soon. I’ve seen the rest you mention as well (some of which actually are on this list). I actually own DVDs of Irreversible, Antichrist,…

Agree on Adkins and Taslim but Uwais just isn’t a good actor.

that he is still in the show.

Maïwenn has had a fucked up life, so I can’t help but sympathize a bit, but I also can’t help but wish she’d just fuck off. By her own account her childhood was awful and both her parents physically abused her regularly. Then she meets Besson when she’s 12, he was 29, and start “dating” when she was fucking 15 and is…

I should also be a bit fairer to Miller, as he did back off Holy Terror, his Occupy Wall Street stuff and other reactionary shit he said back then. He’s said he wasn’t thinking straight at the time but wouldn’t go into more depth other than it was a bad time in his life. His mentor, Neal Adams was bit more…

Hypnotic was basically an adventure into seeing how much Rodriguez and company could claim a tax loss on.

Seriously, fuck Mamet, and fuck anyone who would want to work with this deranged asshole at this point. He’s like the play/movie writer version of Frank Miller for comic books. Their early work was lauded as a cutting deconstruction of toxic masculinity, fascism and homophobia, then their later works show that, wait,…

There wasn’t much of a backlash from the “anti-woke” Star Wars social media contingent about Andor because they didn’t get past the lack of pew-pew early on. They didn’t watch it so they don’t have anything to be fake outraged and abusive about.

There isn’t “an inherent prejudice against shorter guys in Hollywood.” It’s actually much easier to control eyelines for a shorter actor as opposed to a tall actor. Taller actors actually create more issues because it’s tough for an audience to not find a character imposing when they tower above the other actors, when…

I have a few friends that have worked on Cruise productions, (One on The Mummy and one on whichever MI came out a couple years before that) and they both noted the same thing: Cruise is extremely amiable on set and tries to get to know everybody on the crew. I will note though that my buddy, who was a first assistant…

Yup. It’s fucking gross. That script was also significantly more violent and Leon is a full-on sociopath. The “no women, no children” rule is still there but otherwise he doesn’t give a shit. Leon trains Mathilda by having her actually kill random people. The script opens with a variation of the rooftop sniper rifle…

“We have provided the District Attorney with irrefutable evidence that the woman is lying, including video proof showing nothing happened, especially not where she claimed,” Chaudhry stated. “We did this with the explicit promise from the DA that they would not ‘fix’ their case and change it as we proved the woman is…

The MCU movie Infinity Gauntlet saga is very different than the comic book version. By the end of it Adam Warlock has the Gauntlet, which would explain the action figure.

Saw it today and it was really, really good. Much better than GotG 2, where I felt Gunn fumbled a bit, though I do enjoy that movie. This one is just everything Gunn excels at, which is wringing emotion out of absurdity and bombast, mainly by being to true to his characters. It’s definetely one of the darkest of the…

I used to work in the industry, but not for a long time now, though I still have a lot of friends that do. Looking at my reply I was definetely overly abrasive there. Apologies. That was the culmination of frustration of seeing so many posts here and elsewhere of people unironically say stuff like, I pay for all these…