seems promising, but i’m “Once CRV’ed, twice shy” when it comes to honda and reviving beloved 80s/90s models. I guess we’ll see eventually

That’s a fair point, i think some of it is on the filmmaker depicting a character as a nuanced person vs. a canvas for all negativity a given identity faces. Reminds me of dueling ruth bader ginsburg biopics from a few years ago. One was a extremely one dimensional culture warrior film (every single male in the movie…

With many tragedies like this it’s a delicate balance between retelling so it doesn’t happen again versus gratuitous depictions and traumatizing people

The “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” point is fair. Having a big name director/stars driving audiences to see the movie reminds me of the billy eichner romcom. Didn’t have any big names, a first time director and despite being considered “very important” culturally it did OK, but not fantastically.

It’s pretty wild how often he is doing some variation of confused/duckface

The bundy family nonsense with the not paying grazing fees or taking over an out of season nature refuge, then threatening violence when being told that’s against the law is steeped in sovcit logic. Yes most of the youtube jagoffs are harmless idiots but there absolutely is a dangerous, “local militia” adjacent…

He’s taken the trump route of instead of focusing energy on being good at business, spends that energy on proselytizing the concept that he’s good at business

waaaay too much money but i’m begging whoever ends up with it to do a Phase 6 mod

*historically accurate kong*

Aww, i kind of like the looks of the lincoln mkt! It’s about as “retro hearse” looking as you can do with a modern CUV and the heckblende taillight pre-dated LED-enabled ubiquity

There’s still journalistic voice and presenting at least a front of not openly contradicting each other. For my money, my favorite was when huffpost ran these two stories on back to back days. You never run out of news if you ARE the news (journalism 101)

yeah, of all the binary hot takes based on a combination of a minimal understanding of history (particularly through a western lens) and a hierarchy of victimhood hers is pretty well-stated without dipping into equivocation or whataboutism (remember how bad those things were when trump and his supporters did it?)

A social media account of a sovereign state going after a non-talented celebrity is beyond stupid, petty and pointless. That aside its been interesting to see how different generations view this, surely in part based on generational events and views

I’ts fantastic for the consumer, but i was thinking more of the artist perspective. Old model was it was a grind to just get your music recorded at decent quality and released, but if that happens you’re more guaranteed some degree of exposure/income. In the new model recording and releasing it is the easy part, but…

“hahahah sam rockwell dances good” is about as far as it goes

It’s kind of similar to music, where chances of success in the old model vs new are kind of a wash. The barriers to entry are lower than ever before (technology to record and share music) but that also means there is that much more competition for attention. Since it’s entertainment, add in a huge dollop of nepotism…

have never seen gangs of new york but remember it being at least somewhat well received. (checks oscar noms and box office results), that’s a one hell of a flop

I think a lot of what she’s getting heat for is the knee-jerk equivocation and whataboutism in the face of a specific incident. It’s along the lines of a minority being unjustly killed by police and someone responds with “well they killed many more of each other in chicago last weekend”

plus you get adrian belew instead of alex weir