I’d be pretty surprised if this project originated with the studio, at least if it’s real. I’m guessing Glover (and possibly Murphy, together) came up with an idea for what’s basically an ironic take on a super-hero movie and pitched it to Sony, or, as someone suggested below, this is actually just something like…

The Abyss routinely makes lists of the top 100 sci-fi movies of all time. Maybe in the bottom half, but I dare say it appears more often than it doesn’t. I’d argue that it’s at least two spots too low here, but the fact that he’s got at least four movies that are solidly ranked higher than it is telling.

Yeah, I noted that. The point is that a film can make formal contributions to the medium without being a good film in the traditional sense, not that the content of Avatar and racist propaganda are literally the same. On the ethical level, there is no comparison, which seemed too obvious to be worth mentioning. But it…

Avatar is a great movie the way The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will are, to pick the most incendiary examples possible. It made a significant contribution to how a certain kind of movie is made, but anyone who watches it a lot has instantly suspect taste.

Aliens is weirdly one of the best arguments against sequels in concept because while it’s almost certainly among the top five of all time, it’s still worse than the original. Because of that, it feels odd to place it as Cameron’s best, even though I’m not sure I disagree.

Avatar itself should have a big ol’ asterisk…

It’s telling that it’s virtually always guys that have an issue with intimacy coordinators.  I’ve never read an interview with an actress yearning for the halcyon days when scene partners would just grab their boobs without so much as a heads-up.

The Eight-Offs.

When it was announced that they were spending $1.5 billion on a bunch of Avatar sequels, I, like a lot of people, chuckled, thought, “well, that seems like a miscalculation,” made a few jokes, and went on with my day. But the number of people who seem weirdly, personally invested in its failure have become far more…

I went from thinking that she’s more than earned the right to turn down a second sequel to C-level franchise to pretty annoyed that she mostly seems to think they won’t hire her because she’s too old. Listen you mfers, if Maria von Trapp wants to be in your movie, you figure it out.

I was disappointed that they didn’t run with the moral ambiguity a bit more. “Superhero who kills people” is still a minority in DC comics, but it describes 95% of action movie heroes, and everyone he kills is a scumbag with no redeeming qualities. There’s no point in the film where I really doubted that he was going…

Every movie he’s made since Piranha 2 is a classic of its era and genre (True Lies is maybe debatable), except for this one, literally the highest-grossing movie of all time, which the internet has spent the last three months roasting.  That’s understandably messing with his head a bit.

It may turn out that this is technically more the studio’s fault than the Academy’s, but I’m near-certain that the famous white guy stars of BP nominees who weren’t individually nominated, like DiCaprio, Cooper, or Chalamet, will be there (and likely the ones in breakout roles, like Hoffman and Hill).

Even if there is…

Discovery is doing that this season — like they’ve literally left the galaxy — but it’s still dragging quite a bit. I’d argue that what they actually need to do to fulfill their promise of “exploring something new every week” is return to more of an episodic structure.

A lot of these genre shows are trying too hard to…

I suppose it’s possible, but I don’t really get that from what she said, and I’m not sure someone who was going to vote for Dolly Parton is really that much more likely to vote for Kate Bush or the Eurythmics than Devo or Lionel Richie or whoever when the option is removed.

You know, I’m not as down on commercial space flight as many people seem to be. We learn a lot from going to space, the government has largely abandoned the leadership role it should be taking in research and exploration, and while sure, billionaires could arguably be putting this money to more altruistic uses,…

This is as plausible as anything. She’s so courteous and deferential that it’s easy not to notice that her objection doesn’t really make sense. “Rocking” hasn’t been a requirement for the Hall of Fame in decades, she has, objectively, sold millions more records than several other nominees, and what vote is she worried…

Yeah, she kinda takes focus away from the real rockers nominated this year, like  *checks notes*  Eminem and Dionne Warwick.

I think I’m largely on board with that, even as we have slightly different reads on how unguarded that interview was. For the record, I’m not claiming to know what’s actually going on in his head. I’m saying that his public statements are making him SOUND like a callous asshole, whether he actually is one or not, so…

I’m not sure I buy that, but for the sake of argument, when the priority of “absolving myself” supersedes a desire to find the truth or console the victim’s family, you lose the moral high ground from which to critique other people’s motives.

Again, though, the phrasing reads to me as a very specific kind of “I didn’t…

No, it’s his apparent lack of empathy that suggests a lack of empathy.