Monsieur Gustave in Grand Budapest Hotel is my answer for all those questions.

It's really interesting to me how the art direction on TV shows has been increasingly getting better in every way over the past 20-30 years or so except for the animation itself and aspects of character design related to animation (they have to be flat and dumbed down so they can move cheaply). The art direction for…

They're hoping to make money off selling information to advertisers. There's also a lot of stipulations like you can't see the same movie twice. I don't think this is a long term plan either. They're trying to set up a subscription based model for seeing movies to encourage people to go see movies and once they get…

So many people are critiquing them for showing up to the rally with baseball bats. Honestly, that's pretty low-key compared to gun-wielding Nazis. This country sucks.

I can't believe those violent alt-leftists went after them! Bad alt-lefters! Unfair! Sad!

I'm really hoping the shit hitting the fan will cause the majority of the country to become more progressive in the long run…

Personally I like it when shows play around with being unrealistic (it's not really possible for a show to be realistic anyways as something always has to be heightened to keep it interesting). Chilton being messed up over and over again was particularly fun.

I don't think tiering it like that would really work. You can already pay for movie tickets on opening day and since this offer doesn't give you first dibs over people without a subscription, you're only saving money on tickets if you like going to four films a month during opening week if not opening day. It seems a…

Yeah that seems really fishy. The seeming uselessness of that information makes me wary about what they're specifically doing and how they're going to advertise to subscribers. Are they just sending you emails? Using that information to discern what ads to show during what movies during what times of day?

He wants to unite the country (in support for him)! Racists and all!

Hey, that's not entirely true, he was also a filthy rich d-list celebrity.

Peter Capaldi was The Director of Communications and I'm kind of surprised you're the first person I've seen to make that comparison, i think, because "incompetent douchebag Capaldi" was my first thought after that dick sucking comment.

Well hopefully whatever asshole decided the character can't have a helmet realizes this is their fault. I mean of all the reckless and stupid reasons to endanger someone's life a movie has to be right up there at the top.

Yeah but they already survived that fall. I mean you could come up with whatever interpretation you want for the ending of season 3 but it's obvious the show was telling us they surivived, or at least Hannibal did. Really the show is often pretty liberal with letting its characters survive lethal injuries so I…

Yeah, the the thing about trolling is you can't really lose. But you know he isn't going to convince anyone of anything they weren't already convinced of so you might as well kick his ass.

Also even an effective "peaceful protest" is going to be violent in some way, even though it doesn't involve punching or kicking, otherwise nobody would really notice it.

Okay but the nazis also injured a bunch of people, killed a woman, then called her a fat childless slut and also they're nazis. At this point I don't think the issue is "only parties being heard are those willing to resort to violence" but rather an issue of the presence of nazis causing violence. They are an…

Jeff wrote a song called "Brian Wilson says SMILE or 'My Beard of Defiance'" about refusing to shave just because he knows everyone wants him too.

Also i just realized I haven't shaved in like a few days, which is weirdly very directly related to my comment here. Woo

Jeff Rosenstock. I've been listening to Brian Wilson's SMILE a lot lately. I love Twin Peaks too much that only happens once a week and we're getting pretty near the end.