That’s my problem with this movie (at least from what I’ve seen). Nothing makes it seem to stand out from your usual bleak future humans vs. robots fare.

It’s a self-fulfilling cycle.

Oh no not Decepticon emblems! Next they’ll pay money to see cartoon movies in theaters!!

Big blockbuster movies aren’t going away, I know that, you know that, and Scorsese knows that. But so many people act like anything but bootlicking Hollywood are an argument to get rid of big blockbuster movies instead of what they are, a defense to keep the little guy from being annihilated.

bold of you to assume they’re not real transformers

Ah yes, the year [citation missing], when independent films were making hundreds of millions of dollars, and high-budget spectacle headed by marquee stars couldn’t make its budget back.

Pre-embargo critical reactions are definitely a bit suspect in that regard. They tend to be overly positive.

It could use a better name as well. When I first read it I thought the movie was some sort of Christian flick so there could be a lot of people not even wanting to look up what it’s about.

The commercial we keep seeing on tv tells us how good the movie is without showing us how good the movie is. It’s not a great way to go.

I have been a listener for 25 years and can say yes, he has matured a great deal, I mean they still do some immature stuff on the show at times but overall he’s wayyy tamer. He credits therapy for that and maybe wanting to interview actual big name celebrities instead of Frank Stallone ( Paul Simon was on yesterday,…

#fafafohi

Bill Maher’s podcast is one of the worst I’ve ever seen.
He’s so stoned by the time he sits down with a guest, he can barely register what they’re even talking about and he can’t be bothered with actual questions. The other person might as well not be there. If he can’t be bothered to give a fuck, why should listeners? 

Bill Maher is a dick. He was never a liberal. Seeing how he just barely got scared off from being a scab is more evidence of his unprogressive ways. A real progressive never would have even floated the idea of crossing a picket line. He just seems good at pissing everyone off.

It was probably the first time that people were called sexists for not liking a movie.
People are more pissed about that than at the movie itself.

Insulting people because they don’t like your movie is a dumb strategy.

Keep digging. This is entertaining. 

you keep warping “people disliked it for sexist reasons” into “everybody who disliked it was sexist,” and it’s telling.

Thing is, a lot of people were being reactionary sexists about it, review bombing and such without even seeing it. We all dislike stuff for legitimate reasons which other people dislike for spurious ones. It’s just interesting that, seven years later, people are still fixated on justifying their opinion rather than…

So your argument is that people didn’t say those racist, sexist things to Leslie Jones? 

Man, people can’t let go of this movie. Every time I visit my brother in-law he has a new YouTube video to show me about how it was definitely bad and how it has nothing to do with it being the lady ghostbusters movie.

Compared to who exactly? What directors has an entire filmography without any adaptation or inspirations?

By your standard Kubrick also can’t come up with original ideas, neither does Spielberg, Tarantino, David Fincher, Scorsese etc etc.
How dare they adapt books, hire screenwriters, make biopics or have original…