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I saw a YouTube video that made the same argument back when Passengers was released. If I recall correctly (and I might not), the third act would need some rewriting, but rearranging the first two acts so that Lawrence was the protagonist would pretty much save the movie.

I think read that in ton of the rewrites of script he couldn’t see inside the pods and he just randomly selects one because the loneliness over takes him which makes a bit easier to empathize with. It’s hard not to consider the gender dynamics when he can visually see her and then look up all the information about…

I’d say about 80% of what’s good about Passengers is Thomas Newman’s score.

You claim the header pic is Adele but I just see a yassified Sarah Paulson.

Yeah I’d heard it said, and always assumed it was known that Littlefeather was not a Native American, but was an actor/artist who posed as one, but then somewhere along the way this tidbit got buried, and she was legitimized.

Years ago when I first read about her appearance at the Oscars I could’ve sworn that articles indicated that it was later discovered that she was not in fact Native American. When she came back into the news recently there was no such mention so I figured I’d remembered incorrectly. Now I’m really not sure what to…

The later love for Halloween III: Season of the Witch sometimes confuses me. I feel like sometimes we want to overcompensate for the fact that Carpenter was probably right about trying to move away from Myers for a while — the anthology idea has seemed like a better idea after almost every subsequent movie.

Obviously the original was going to be 1st, and 3 & 4 have developed cult followings, so that also checks out. But why the Hell is H2O ranked so low? And that a pretty low ranking for part 2, as well.

I’ll go to bat for H20. It’s not perfect, but it does what it sets out to do - and I feel like does it substantially more satisfyingly than this trilogy - which have half the catharsis and three times the collected runtime. 

By franchise I mean the IP. S&M sex is intrinsic to Hellraiser’s roots. Stripping it for yet another morality tale about the dangers of drug addiction sounds off-putting and that’s putting it mildly.

Kind of sad that the reboot strips the queer subtext away, since that really was what differentiated the Hellraiser films (at least the first two) from most of the other 80s slasher/horror icon franchises.

I always thought the puzzle box was supposed to be something of a challenge to gain access to the ultimate sensations of the flesh, a prize only a few of the most committed or simply good with puzzles could achieve.

I guess the lesson is that you can get away with anything on an MA show. But make a movie with a little too much sex and face the wrath of the MPAA. It’s stupid and absurd.

heh, nice

If you’re looking for real nc-17 content, look no further than HBO’s “Industry”. (Yeah it’s a show, not a movie; but dude gets jerked off onto a mirror, then licks it up.)

Desperate Living stands with Female Trouble as Waters best. I like Desperate a bit more. Both are great X rated fun. 

I think there’s some extra aspects sdded to it nowadays. Like the internet being an amazing tool for communication that previous generations didn’t have - which let all those isolated disaffected assholes connect with other people Just Like Them and reinforce their views; Us vs Them tribalism enhanced by that ability…

This is how you sound: “I don’t think expecting people who don’t give a shit about others, only themselves, to wear masks in public settings for the rest of their lives is fair or realistic.”

“As it turns out, Hader was not paranoid or virtue signaling by donning the mask.”