A tale of two cities. Would you rather spend a billion to net 3 billion or spend 100 million to net one billion? Risk/reward is one very valid thing, but most people would rather have the two extra billion in the end.

Not as many overwrought think pieces were written about Logan

How would inflation change the metric that the writer of this article used? They defined most profitable as having the highest revenue / production budget ratio....

When you get right down to it, Joker is just The Lonely Island’s Threw it on the Ground only played entirely straight.

Feels like you didn’t watch the episode at all, was about the alt meat craze more than calling out vegans. Cartman’s anti-vegan stance wasn’t portrayed as something positive at all either.

I’m amazed that after 23 years there is still people dumb enough to think that whatever Cartman or Randy say is a reflection of Matt and Trey’s actual exact opinion....

“They should have had you review the new Kevin Smith movie.”

Joker works best with no backstory.  He’s not someone you should care about, just a crazy person that needs to be stopped.

I do kind of love that we’re at the point with comic book movies where “It’s derivative, but like, at least it’s derivative of something else,” is a selling point.

Famous orange haired character the joker, well known for his hair that is definitely not green.

That kind of explains why they’re giving us another damn Joker movie.

“we all agree that this film is Good now, right?”

Beaten with the crossword and jumble section of the newspaper every day growing up

It was overrated at the time but the pendulum has probably swung a bit too far in the other direction. Whatever it represented in ‘99, the response to it now embodies the current groupthink criticism mentality of the period we’re in. It hit me at the right time in my life and I really liked it (more than many of the…

It was a different time for gay rights in the US.  As awful as things are politically now, the US has become more enlightened in the past 2 decades.  I know the closeted marine is a trope, now, but back then I think it rang with some legitimacy.  I saw this movie in the theater back then, when I was in my mid 20s. 

Well, yeah, that’s the point. You’re told your whole life that if you do THIS thing and get THAT thing, you’ve reached the goal and you’ll be happy and content. Well, in the 90s it happened (for the most part). People could do the thing, they could get the thing, they could actually cross the goal-line that had been…

It goes unmentioned in this article that Spacey snaps out of his indeed creepy infatuation with Suvari when she tells him this will be her first time.  He very much has a “holy shit what am I doing??” moment.

I felt deeply identified with it too, my dad was basically Lester, a guy who was a late baby bloomer who got married at a young age because he thought that was what he was supposed to do, and when I was a teen had a full on breakdown. He didn’t quit his job or anything, but left the house, got a bachelor appartment,…

Why does everyone assume that we’re supposed to think the video is profound as the audience? I guess the musical cue is serious, but it’s a video being made by a sullen, overdramatic teenage boy. Of course it’s dumb.

Say, whatever happened to this “Kevin Spacey” guy?