Of course, but this article was written from the perspective of what has happened so far, not what is likely to happen in the future.  I fully expect him to become more accepting and understanding of Japanese ways, but as of now he is still acting pretty ignorant and arrogant.

Definitely. I think the difference is that the Japanese seem much more aware that he is trying to use them than he is of being used by them. Both of them see the relationship as transactional, but the Japanese seem to have a more realistic view of what is going on. It may just be that they have all the advantages -…

I pretty much agree except that he isn’t really endearing or lovable. He’s just a bigoted European full of unearned arrogance assuming that these people are savages because they aren’t white, English speaking, protestants. He considers the Portuguese to be only a small step above them.  Yes, he knows a few things they…

I appreciate the attempt, but not the result.

“Scare” is a bit of a hyperbole. I won’t say it is never fatal, but you literally have to ignore it for years, maybe decades, to die of it. It’s pretty easily treatable with a few different things and it basically never spreads to other organs.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s post when they bite into it and get a mouthful of lead sinkers.

I thought it was, but all I could find on the interwebs was he had a degree in philosophy and I didn’t want to get “well, actually’d.”  So here I sit in shame for not having the courage of my convictions.

A by-the-book actioner that’s sunk by indifferent performances, muddled storylines, and stilted dialogue.

But apparently that wasn’t the movie he wanted to make.

that includes crew members not making out with each other

That’s a Trump level burn right there.

I also gave it up years ago because, delicious as it is, they are just too smart.

The Humungus. The Lord Humungus. The Warrior of the Wasteland. The Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah!

I’m just relieved the problem involved “love” and not “bleeding.”

I bet he did that to avoid people projecting simplistic, modern day politics on it. Especially if he was interesting in talking more about the function of a free press in a democracy. If he made it Texas and Florida, or California and New York, then the President would automatically be the other side and people would g…

It’s a demonstration of systemic sexism in society. People still assume gender specific jobs and roles and while they may readily accept that there can be male flight attendants, female pilots, female physicians, et cetera, they have to actually think about such things. When they don’t, they automatically revert to…

I can't blame him. It's hard to keep track of what's what in "Yellowstone" with all those spinoffs.

We can never know for sure, but WW84 really seems like something that suffered from studio interference.

I love “Ex Machina” and might go for that in IMAX.