it feels time to move on

The Descendants is a favorite of mine partially because it’s one of the tiny, tiny handful of movies that gets Hawaii right, and partially because Clooney sells the hell out of making the affair plausible (from the flip flop run to the “oh, we were just fighting” setting from the neighbors that eventually culminates…

Your guess at his percentage is not too far off: in the book, Clooney’s character’s grandfather was 1/2, which would make him 1/8th, and while it’s been a while since I’ve watched it the movie may have even added another generation to that. The response you’re getting is also incorrect from both the perspective of the…

And for someone who is bipolar, many classes of stimulants have a real risk of exacerbating mania and even sending someone into psychosis, especially if they’re not on a mood stabilizer.

I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take

There are seven levels of writers; EP is the highest paid.

I don’t disagree that trying to get a read on anything internal in that marriage is an exercise in futility, which includes why they’re still together in whatever format that they wish to call it. Got me, and your speculation could be as potentially accurate or not as anyone else’s, including mine.

Or like someone who has been emotionally abused for years upon years, which I’d never really considered until the book and his responses.

He praised his wife (if that is the appropriate term) in an email to the NYT

Interesting stuff.  Thanks.

Hers was one of the more inspiring stories about someone who Hollywood wanted to cast off for standing up for themselves and who had the last laugh (although a lot of her later life money making was sketchy as all hell.)

This was inevitable after McCarthy didn’t have the votes to win the Speakership back in January but then agreed to the single-member-vacate-the-chair rule change to get it done.

That’s probably an easy one: they looked at the turns and margins on physical media sales, at best it came up as below average in comparison to anything else on the floor, and given the topline part of the business has been shrinking for a decade there was no chance for a tailwind of the sector itself bailing it out.…

This is a very good point.  God help kids growing up around decades of this.

This isn’t particularly a revelation; 2014's outstanding (which is admittedly an extremely surprising word to link with a Shatner written film) Chaos on the Bridge covered this thoroughly, including an animated guess at the hairpiece, although I don’t think it covered the hairpiece’s flight this thoroughly.

Yep, among other things I’d argue Ellie is the most accurate representation of a grad student ever portrayed and probably should top the overall list.

This is a strange list, not the least because of the cited logic of the deliberate choice to drop Margo in favor of Aleida. The former showed a pretty reasonable representation of what it took to be a woman in both STEM and management in the 70s, 80s, and even 90s; the other has magical plot armor that prevented her…

I remember thinking the country was like a giant cloud of smoke, where it wasn’t too bad on the West Coast but the further east you got, the more thick it was. Also, there was the dread of the potential of being stuck in smoking sections on flights as a kid even through early adulthood - and a memory of the Europeans…

They were engaged from sometime in 2017 or 2018 - the latter is when they announced it - but never got married, which surprised me a bit (and probably was a warning sign; I’m glad even in midst of all this abuse some small voice in her head realized she was in trouble.)

Yep, that was my reaction. Not a classic, but pretty funny, at times slightly scary and gory, and something I wouldn’t mind watching again in a few months or seeing if they can successfully rework the same formula in a sequel. Haven’t been a lot of movies like that recently.