Yeah, that’s it exactly. He might not be the best person to talk about the Osage part of the history, but he’s a very good choice for talking about the white killers, and I think focusing on them as a white member of the film’s audience really confronts you with how complicit the entire white community was.

Nailed it. People focus on the fact that it’s through Ernests perspective but Scorcese never glorifies it or tries to make any of the other white guys sympathetic characters. You can tell Ernest Burkhart is a sack right from the get go. 

I have an issue with Scorsese turning Ernest Burkhart into the central character because he’s just so damn enamored with DiCaprio yelling and making faces.

Fair, but Baldwin wasn’t the armorer. They don’t appear to be holding him liable as a producer of the film who (at least nominally) supervised the armorer, since if that were the case, it wouldn’t matter if he pulled the trigger or not.  So the theory seems to be that, in his role as an actor in the movie, he was…

I’m not a huge Scorsese fan, but this movie really impressed me. I think in terms of is this guy the right person to tell this story, I think there’s something really interesting going on here. I know there are criticisms to be made about centering a white man’s experience, but I also think Scorsese managed to find…

Call me a cynic, but the salient reality is that this particular story (while riveting) simply wouldn’t be more than a well-made documentary or a terribly worse film without people like Scorsese and DiCaprio behind it.

You say it would be a better movie, but you don’t say why. Merely changing the POV to an Osage…

he was clearly wary about it too and that bleeds into the narrative in a very interesting way.

as far as i’m concerned the ‘win’ was getting 200 million dollars to make the movie and now i can watch the movie whenever i want.

This is the most blatant use of false advertising sing my suit against the film “The Never Ending Story”!

Insert Lionel Hutz quote here

And as I have said many times, D&D were following outlines from GRR. So while it may take years and be a few thousand more pages of text, the overall ending of the books will be very similar to the show. At least it would have been.  I am fairly certain part of the reason Martin has just stopped writing the books is…

What bugs me has remained pretty consistent: the early seasons did a great job of building up three clear major factions and a bunch of minor ones that all had conflicting goals and likeable, three-dimensional characters. While far from morally perfect, many were at least good-ish but legitimately seemed like they…

I’d never bet against him.

This was the house.

Who says they can’t write well? That’s some AAA trolling right there.

Sandor “The House” Clegane is my favorite character.

Of course Gator prefers oatmeal raisin cookies, the worst of all cookies. Happy to see Scottie chose peanut butter M&M’s though!

I shouldn’t be surprised or upset considering the Emmys past history of screwing over Rhea Seehorn, but dammit, I’m still pissed off Rhea Seehorn got denied once again by the farcical fools that decide the Emmys. Look, I enjoyed The White Lotus, but for fucks sake, Jennifer Coolidge was playing Jennifer Coolidge. As…

How did you get the impression that he doesn’t want his audience to have an opinion about his films?

That’s fair considering that, much like the upcoming Mean Girls remake/reboot/whatever the fuck, they seem to be hellbent on hiding the fact that it’s a musical for whatever reason.