A lot of the “random talent discoveries” of the past were exploitative men obsessing over and elevating beautiful women. I'd rather have nepo babies. 

As one data point among many, it's useful to have an opinion from someone with personal experience of what Biden is like now and whose future is absolutely secure whether or not they piss off Dem gatekeepers.

Sword and sandals is a trashy genre and always has been. If this doesn't give us a anything but Paul Mescal looking sweaty and aggrieved for 2 hours, the brief has been met. 

It felt like a possibly heavy-handed signal that your sympathies have been in the wrong place all episode so get ready to have your world rocked. She’s so pitiable the rest of the episode that maybe you’d pity her for echoing the racism that has been all she’s ever known. With the reveal that she’s canny and…

It seemed obvious to me that there was some kind of control mechanism on the Homeworld that would be notified if a Dot harmed a human directly, but once everyone on the Homeworld was dead, there was no more oversight.

The tilde is doing a lot of work though.

There's a mix of cortisol, Axe body spray, and skunkiness that only wafts from large groups of boys between ~17 and 20.

The screenings of Dune 2 I attended were packed with ~18 year olds. That age group was 8 when Fury Road came out, they might not know how much of a banger a George Miller movie can be. OTOH, they've been the right age for all the Dune buzz.

I hope the obvious influence of Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees makes it in

I saw her stand-up in DC a couple years ago - unhinged, sweet, nerdy, hilarious, like watching a stoned but still articulate squirrel run around for an hour. 

A creepy and discouraged behavior in a four year old boy, not just a grown man. In his case the pyschological wound is never getting over that correction.

One of my favorite things they've ever done is the short "Day and Night" but it would be virtuosic to turn that kind of concept into a full movie. 

Or a kid who doesn't have any imagination because they've had too much screen time. Basically telling the story of one of those Axiom babies learning about the real world

That is 100% Brad Bird’s particular psychological bias against average people which has only gotten more entrenched as he’s gotten older. It’s not a diss, I think adults with unhealed childhood wounds make some of the best children’s stories. On the other hand, it does explain why John Lasseter and JK Rowling and…

There’s so much great anti-authoritarian kids lit though because kids are the victims of countless small tyrants. Wrinkle in Time, Matilda, Pippi Longstocking, Charlotte’s Web, Holes. It doesn’t need to specifically be about Trump to reinforce in kids that letting stupid bullies amass power is bad.

My dude, may I recommend books for adults instead of high-budget movies primarily for children. The economics just don't line up. Even genuinely revolutionary kids books get almost everything sanded off them when they become movies.

Yep, I know exactly what you're talking about. There's a grid in Scott McClouds Understanding comics that illustrates that abstraction enhances relatability so perfectly. I loved what Disney tried out in Paperman so much, but unfortunately I think mainstream kids animation is never going back to 2D or close to 2D

I hold particular personal disdain for Monsters University and Incredibles 2 because they make such boring broad story choices in such interesting worlds but I agree that it's not badly made

You joke, but there's an interview with the Dune bucket designers which pretty much says that verbatim, but gussied up with "we're considering the creative potential of the hole in brand new ways" I gave myself the ick and I'm sorry

I guarantee you there are at least 10 homes in the country with a whole wall of promotional popcorn buckets. I’m not any better with pop culture plastic, Lego mini figs get me, but dang they’re an ugly thing to collect