I don’t what movie Ig saw but I loved it. The weird boundary between comedy and documentary that McKay mined in The Big Short is again in evidence, but it’s not the same gags. I liked all of them, from the iambic pentameter, to the fake credits, to the reveal of who our narrator is.

It is funny as hell, at least until about the last half an hour when I was filled with the old familiar rage...

I’m going to this today, totally psyched. I’m wondering though if this might be a way the MCU could introduce its multiverse to audiences--by having Miles in one universe, Tom Holland’s Spidey in another, and say the Fantastic Four in yet another (seeing as they don’t really fit into the Earth-616 movies we’ve been…

Best thing I’ve seen today. Scary!

Marwencol isn’t really available to stream from the usual suspects without an additional subscription, is basically my take, and the only reason for seeing this. Am not psyched. I wouldn’t want to see Citizenfour melded with A Beautiful Mind either.

This.

He was a big hambone. But I rewatched American Beauty and it holds up well in the light of 2018 irony. Still creepy! 

Nearly all US political fictions on television are ridiculous. I understand not wanting to offend anyone with deep convictions one way or the other, but that’s not gonna work in 21 century America. I watched the first few episodes of Season One, then bailed because it had so little to do with our timeline.

Heath Ledger excepted, the Dark Knight embodies most of what’s wrong with the DC CU (and with Chris Nolan’s movies): the emotions the characters portray are incomprehensible, or at best a lo-res simulation of any emotions you’ve ever had. Batman/Bruce Wayne has such a stick up his butt that any talk about duty or love…

McClickbait, you’re part of the problem. Way to force those knees to jerk.

Agreed. Racism was rampant then (and has obviously not been erased yet). But it doesn’t seem to me the space race was part of the same set of bullshit, the awesomeness of “Whitey’s On The Moon”, and the points made therein, notwithstanding. Maybe I’m not diving deep enough — and probably ignoring TPTB’s indifference…

You mean “yes, it was different”. I agree.

I’m not sure I agree that’s what it’s truly about, but I liked it a lot, and I liked that it muted the usual HURRAH, IT’S GLORIOUS! that our space-race movies tend to have — because we’ve seen that already. I liked that it emphasized how utterly frightening the job of being an astronaut was, and dug down into what…

“Is the determination we had to go to the moon so different from the destructive push of manifest destiny?”

I think Kim sees something in Jimmy that’s no longer there — all the crap surrounding Chuck’s death has stifled or killed it altogether. But I think Jimmy mostly sees a fellow grifter in Kim.

Jimmy’s performance before the committee was, first and foremost, a performance. But I don’t think people necessarily understand what Jimmy actually feels for Chuck. Certainly Kim didn’t.

Not what I call a feel-good ending, but YMMV.

True that the Zuckerberg of the film doesn’t match the real-life Zuck as seen on TV. I suppose the idea was that Irony Rules The World — here’s this completely asocial geek, childishly willing to let his anger express itself whenever it feels like it, who created what seemed in 2010 to be the single most popular tool…

I’ve been calling him President Cheney for a while, and what I notice (aside from the utter AWESOMENESS of this trailer -- shoutout to that sneer at the end) is that the precedents he set haven’t been rolled back. I wonder who plays John Yoo?

I agree that he is being that. Still, what passed for foreplay between them was kind of squicky to me.