It can be two things.

Are you being sarcastic, dude?

Right, because when you fall in love with someone, you have no choice but to marry into their weird, ultra-wealthy, ultra-famous family with its extremely well-known history of being hostile to outsiders. No choice!

I haven’t read the books, but I’m wondering, what exactly is the alternative to “religious war that kills billions” that would be worse?

I suppose the best solution for “how do I avoid killing billions” is to not engineer a galactic society where that ends up being necessary in the first place

Thanks! I’ve been practicing my nyuk-nyuks and eye-pokings lately.

Every time I hear about some small beloved company getting eaten by a corporate behemoth and destroyed, I always sigh and wish people would found employee-owned companies that would refuse to sell out like that.

Right? TIL that apparently some people have a passionate hatred of *checks notes* dill.

Thank god you’re here to provide moral guidance.

*rereads my comments*

“poor woman”

I mean, yeah, I’m not saying that the public has the right to immediately know everything that’s going on, even with someone in the royals’ position. And I have sympathy for the difficulty of dealing with tough personal decisions, especially when you’re under a spotlight. But my sympathy (about the privacy, not the…

Are people seriously still clutching their pearls over a movie having reshoots? Reshoots don’t say anything about an individual movie these days, although they definitely say something about the big-budget Hollywood machine.

“clamoring for details about a stranger’s private life”

The pre-teaser thing is because of social media, where someone’s scrolling through Instagram or Tiktok or whatever and is likely only going to look at something for 3-5 seconds before moving on. So they do a super-quick teaser. I suppose that there’s similar quick behavior on YouTube (via mobile) which is why they do…

No, I know. It was more a thought about how even if Burton wasn’t engaging in studio-approved nostalgia baiting, is he even capable of doing something that’s as intriguing as his early stuff? (Evidently not, given the last 20 years of his career.)

I sort of wonder if the creepy Gothic/suburban aesthetic that Burton perfected in the 80s and 90s is... just not really compatible with our culture right now? The trifecta of Beetlejuice, Batman, and Edward Scissorhands (1988, 1989, and 1990 respectively) was to some degree revelatory at the time, perhaps in that…

The correct phrasing is “I’ll be in my bunk.”

It’d be one thing if Crowe was starring in interesting, offbeat projects, but a lot of his recent movies just feel like total paychecks. Which, sure, that’s his choice; I just wish (for my own selfish reasons) that he’d pick movies that I had any interest in seeing.

Yes, but now I want to see that version.