Maybe, just maybe, someone who just signed up to make a movie for Disney, which uses its clout with distributors to bully smaller movies out of theater screens (and pretty much everything is smaller than a Disney movie), shouldn’t be so sniffy about other ways to deliver films to the masses?
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Yeah, to not mention United 93 at all is definitely a bit weird.
Ke Huy Quan? Is that you, buddy?!
“Inexplicable the original didn’t launch a series.” - Really? Allow me to explicate: the movie’s kinda dull. It takes nearly an hour for the Rocketeer-ing to being. Campbell is adequate in the role as written, but nothing more. Connolly looks amazing, yes, but her character is also fairly flat. Having the leads start…
Post-TLJ, Hipster Law now states that Luke Skywalker began sucking the moment the Endor celebrations ended, and that no further positive depictions of him from that point in the saga onward will be tolerated.
I watched two whole seasons of Rebels. The animation sucked, the stories were rubbish, and the characters were dull. It was a bad show.
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Actually, Rebels is not so good:
Wait, do we want six-year-olds (of any gender) to look “cool, fashionable, and dangerous”?
You’re certainly entitled to your overall opinion, but it wouldn’t make sense for a character to viciously kill the Manson Family attackers while tripping acid if he wasn’t a genuine bruiser. The Bruce Lee scene establishes the character’s badassery in a context that still allows viewers to be surprised when he…
No, if you watch the interview, QT says the character is an extremely badass WW2 veteran. Which, okay, fair.
To be fair, “buy The AV Club, fire all the hack writers, and hire back the good ones” is totally on my Multimillionaire Bucket List.
It’s not that Tarantino doesn’t get that, given he’s a white guy and the main characters in his movie are white, there’s a crowd that expects him to make artistic reparations for genuine historical racism at every turn. It’s that he doesn’t care about that kind of scorekeeping.
Damn, that whole “Update” part is one helluva burn...
I was the same way for a long time, but then broke down and watched them, and they’re actually pretty great. Especially when they stopped trying to come across as serious in any way, and embraced the goofiness of whatever they’re discussing.
This is both true and key. He was already a borderline household name, but he wasn’t yet an A-list star. Fast Five was the first megahit he needed to take his career to the next level.
Because male and female performers don’t compete with each other for roles. You’re free to argue to get rid of separate categories in spite of that obvious fact, but you don’t get to pretend there’s no logical reason for separate categories in the first place.
The movie itself, and its characters, could absolutely be more or less the same. The movie’s reception would perhaps be quite different, but that’s another matter. And you’re the one wandering off on whatever tangent suits your fancy.
We see mainstream depictions of depression in black men so often that nobody would point out how novel it is to finally see a movie about a depressed person that isn’t white?
“to repair an institution built on sand”
It doesn’t matter one bit if a man or woman or nonbinary person does the costume design or sound editing on, say, Wonder Woman.