They’re pretty clearly just spending too much money on the streaming content. There’s a reason TV shows never used to have huge CGI battles and lavish sets and crowd scenes with hundreds of extras. The network TV business model didn’t allow for that. The network suits knew how much money the ad revenue was bringing…

I’m pro-vax and anti-anti-vax but this has become a witch hunt. We originally started screaming at and blaming the anti-vaxxers for the ongoing pandemic because the vaccines were supposed to bring about “herd immunity” and cause cases to plummet. Maybe it made sense to tar and feather the holdouts when we believed…

Yeah but there are comparably few movies where the absence of smartphones and apps is, unknowingly to 20th century audiences, driving the entire plot. Many older movies prominently feature payphones and cash and paper agreements, and I would actually argue that in many respects cinema never caught up to texting…

So she was too young at age 22 to decide whether or not to enter into a relationship with a rock star, but not too young to be “recently divorced”?

So what do you think about QT’s use of the n-word in his work?

Minority Report and AI are way way too low, Crystal Skull is exactly where it should be. And I can’t really argue with the placement of Jurassic Park, but it’s pretty amazing that any filmmaker could have not just one movie better than that but a solid half dozen.

Wow you are insufferable! I’m sorry that telling a story about my experience seeing Django Unchained in a theater upset you so much.

My point in telling these very personal anecdotes is that the OP was asking about a consensus point of view on a topic that is both very sensitive, and has a high degree of diversity of opinion within the Black community. I don’t think my wife needs “license” to say the n-word, but I was still kind of shocked to hear…

So I’m a white guy married to a Black woman. When I first introduced her to my parents after we’d been dating a few months, we all went to see Django Unchained in a theater. I knew she was a QT fan and I hadn’t given the subject matter a second thought, but then felt really uncomfortable throughout the runtime. She…

The nonlinear chronology really covers up the fact that way too much stuff happens to Vince in the span of about three days.

This is exactly why it’s a poor idea to drink and do drugs and then crash your car into someone’s house — your heirs may not inherit your full multimillion dollar fortune.

That guy identifies as bi, clearly he had no choice but to threaten a comedian’s life for telling jokes he didn’t like! I’m sure he was also forced to stab his roommate for making transphobic comments.

The story is all over the place, and they now have the problem that by rapidly expanding the franchise, they’re left with entire sections of the story that just aren’t working. Does it really matter how they introduce the Eternals to the Avengers at this point? Nobody cares about the Eternals. That’s a problem that…

They’re kind of doing that, but also not. Wanda’s motivation in Dr. Strange 2 literally makes zero sense if you haven’t dutifully watched all of WandaVision (it doesn’t fully make sense if you *have* seen it, but at least you know who the kids are). Falcon & the Winter Soldier was obviously designed to go around in a…

Um, are you referring to the incident in which Chappelle was violently attacked on stage by a man carrying a knife, and the attacker was then beaten up by members of the audience (not Chappelle)?

I think Chappelle’s act is completely authentic and true to his personal worldview, which is that being a Black man in America is the ne plus ultra of oppression, and therefore anybody else claiming victimhood needs to be told why they aren’t as disadvantaged or marginalized as himself. The kind of sad thing about his…

I was impressed Coogler was able to pull it off to the extent he did given the circumstances. There’s no getting around the issue that the cast is entirely made up of characters who were originally designed as supporting characters. But then I was thinking about what most superhero sequels along these lines would look…

I had the same reaction. It wasn’t difficult for me to separate art from the artist. I thought Wright did a great job emotionally centering the movie, processing her grief for brother and mother in well-differentiated ways, and I was just buying the journey towards her becoming Black Panther. I think a lot of people…

It’s ultimately a good thing if China becomes so restrictive that nearly all Hollywood productions are banned. I really hated the way John Cena misspoke in an interview and was then forced to do that humiliating video where he groveled for forgiveness about accidentally referring to Taiwan as a country, so that a Fast…

Zuckerberg’s net worth was something like $150 billion at its peak, so he’s taken a massive hit. He may well have lost more money over the last year than anyone in history. But the important point here is that Zuckerberg does not have $33 billion in his checking account. He owns $33 billion of Meta stock. He can…