Once again — try to dial down the snide snappy tone, please. Disagree with me all you want, but I’ve been perfectly polite to you and we’re just talking about Marvel films, it doesn’t matter enough to justify acting abrasive, condescending and hostile. It just makes you look like you lack perspective on the issue.…

Also, late thought, but I’m not so sure it’s either ‘sudden’ or ‘aspirational’. Audiences have been fascinated by and shown brand loyalty to their favourite movie stars since at least the 1920s, it’s a think we’ve done for about as long as there’s been cinema. It’s hardly a sudden thing. And I don’t think Tarantino…

Again, you seem to be trying to change the goalposts a little there; it’s not the ‘content’ Tarantino is arguing they care about (the content itself is often okay but unmemorable), it’s a fictional character specifically. As for why, you’d probably have to ask Tarantino himself that, because it’s really more his point…

And what was the Duke of Weselton’s big sin, that he wanted to trade Arendelle?

I like the way Mr Sonaht thinks!

People people people. So much hate for this movie. So much loathing. So much bile being spat.

Really? Because comparing Marvel Studios to Hillary Clinton of all people again kind of suggests otherwise.

But that’s not the primary effect they’re arguing. They’re arguing that the primary effect is that it’s limiting the kinds of movies that get made to a handful of formulaic genres heavily reliant on pre-existing IP, with even less chance for anything different to be given a chance to break through than there used to…

This argument doesn’t make any sense. How is what a single studio is doing impacting the ability to make other films?

Cool story. Who was the movie star in Reservoir Dogs?

To be honest, I don’t really remember a lot about it, but it stars a 1990s-era Joely Richardson and Sean Bean and entered my orbit of awareness right when I was hitting puberty, so I’m just gonna say yes. 

No disrespect to the guy, but Simu Liu has starred in one movie to date, and that one movie is part of the MCU. Hardly anyone, to date, is going to see a movie purely because Simu Liu is in it. He’s not a household name. It’s not throwing shade to suggest he’s not yet a movie star in the sense that Tarantino is…

What the hell does the MCU have to do with Scorsese and Tarantino making films? Are we pretending like big action blockbusters haven’t been dominant for like three decades?

No hate for the guy, but did he ever have that talent? I admittedly haven’t seen his entire filmography, but even in the dramatic roles I’ve seen he’s always kind of been Will Smith plays Will Smith as [X].

I just assumed they worked for the same airline that Bill Murray has to deal with at the end of Quick Change.

“See that Bears game last week?”

No he wasn’t. He was in movies, but hardly anyone was going to Sunshine or Street Kings or even Scott Pilgrim based solely on Chris Evans being in them. Maybe the Fantastic Four films, but that’s largely a ‘best of a dud’ factor.

The attacks on the MCU come from opposing sides. Scorsese says they aren’t art. QT says they lack commercial “movie stars,” even though that’s provably false.

I didn’t say the point was to throw shade of Scorsese or anything like that; I just said I’d personally find it more interesting and funnier if they took the premise of “imaginary Scorsese film” in a completely different direction instead of just sticking with the old “Martin Scorsese just makes mob films” trope.…

Uncharted isn’t really the best example of how Tom Holland is a huge movie star who can carry a movie single-handedly, though, since it’s also based on a hugely successful prior IP; Nathan Drake is a pretty iconic video game character. And IIRC Cherry didn’t exactly set the world on fire.