Fair enough. For me, if we’re stripping away any kind of modern relevance the movie is supposed to have w/r/t technology, then we’re left with a pretty boring movie. Again, just for me.

Yeah I hear you on all that. I guess I don’t consider any of that particularly insightful, though. I’d prefer the Nosedive ep of Black Mirror for at least taking the satire to an exaggerated end.

I wanted to like this much more than I did. While it was well acted with some laughs (mostly supplied by Ice Cube Jr.), it really didn’t have much going on. People are obsessed with social media? Social Media “influencers” are probably rather vapid and uninteresting offline? These aren’t really deep cuts of insight.

I’m laughing way too hard at this.

Which one?

In the nonsense this site has become (Trump! Deals! Incessant cross-posting from blogs I deliberately don’t check because I’m coming here!) this series was such a pleasant treat. Very excited for Age of Heroes, if even to have a regular series written from a place of positivity.

I couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed Locke. Apparently it got some flak from people in the know about these things that Hardy’s Welsh accent was atrocious, but to a tin-eared ‘Merican like me I couldn’t tell whatsoever.

If you thought Twilight Guy (Robert Pattinson) was good in Lost City of Z (which he was!) then definitely check out Good Time; he’s electric.

Mudbound never quite came together for me, but it sure did look fantastic. This is cool.

Not sure why that would be controversial. I know he’s made mediocre stuff since, but I don’t think that negates how fun and unique District 9 was. I still love The Sixth Sense despite, well, the rest.

For sure it made a push at legitimizing it. That year, Oscar-wise, was interesting (going off of memory here, so forgive any mistakes) but I think that was also the year Wall-E came out? There was Best Picture talk for both of those, since it was right around the time the Academy adopted the new maximum of 10 BP…

I feel like the success of Iron Man before it had already hinted that, financially, these movies were going to be hits. I agree it definitely set the tone for the somber, “serious” superhero movie that we’ve seen adopted several times over by the majority of the DC cinematic universe. Though, I feel like with…

kys.jpeg? Am I correct in assuming that’s some nonsense shorthand for I should take my own life over a pop-culture comment made on a pop-culture website? Yeah, no.

The hallway scene in Inception was almost enough to keep me from making my initial comment. As well as some of the gorgeous Dunkirk shots with Hardy near the end, though that wasn’t really “action” directing so much as beautiful cinematogrophy of a spitfire.

Probably, cause The Dark Knight is pretty average and Nolan still struggles at directing lucid action scenes.

I think of Master of None as an example of using Netflix and it’s coffers to arbitrarily have different looks episode to episode, and it’s usually distracting and pretentious.

Sounds like a plan. Good luck! That’s a large but very accomplishable number for a year.

You guys are alternating, or she’s just ahead of you?

Isn’t “I’m retiring” exactly what someone who is about to go full-method as an extra-terrestrial gladiator would want you to think?

Well yeah, that’s an interesting offshoot of the whole thing. Buehrle, I think we can agree, is not a Hall of Fame caliber pitcher. But when lesser players are admitted for whatever reason, it stokes the flame of fans/advocates for better players who are inevitably going to be excluded.