Very few movies make me rather angry after watching them, but Nomadland was one of those movies.

What a miserable movie, and even with the good cinematography, it doesn’t make up for a miserable viewing experience, especially when the other nominees in the category all had more memorable movies in almost every…

Part of the reason that Guardians worked is that none of the characters are especially powerful relative to the enemy that they’re directly facing, or in the greater scope of the universe. Therefore, them coming together felt needed, along with spending more time with them as it was conducive to understanding how them…

The issue with the line is that it was about 3 years too late. It was a popular meme in 2015. Memes have a very short shelf life, so even if you assume the script was being written sometime in 2016, you’re still looking at a line that was 2-3 years old, and irrelevant, by the time the movie was released.

It actually…

To answer your salient question: because the overwhelming majority of audience members couldn’t care less about the director, since the MCU films aren’t necessarily conducive towards seeing any significant degree of a distinct directorial vision.

Further, very few of these directors, however talented they might be,…

I can imagine a similar thing happened with Rian Johnson and The Last Jedi. It was so discordant relative to what happened in The Force Awakens, that it seemed as though there were elements of either miscommunication or people going off the reservation that it just didn’t jive at all.

Granted, I think the sequel…

M. Night fell off for a long time. The big 3 franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street) had been dead for nearly a decade (and were bad when they did reappear). Franchises like The Conjuring, Paranormal Activity, and Saw aren’t really associated with a single director or vision. Lastly,…

It’s really interesting because the average audience member of The Eternals wouldn’t know or care about Chloe Zhao because they haven’t watched, nor intend to watch, Nomadland (or any of her other films).

Sure, she won an Oscar, but for the MCU, that Oscar isn’t causing a flurry of additional ticket sales because…

This.

People often don’t grasp the sheer immensity of a $150m+ studio production. You’re talking about 500+ individual cast and crew members, excluding executives from the studio(s), production companies, distributors, etc.

While it’s not the director’s job to corral all of those varied entities, often times they end…

To play devil’s advocate, why should the contracts be guaranteed without incentives for actually performing on the field?

Most states have at-will employment, and even salaried and contract employees have to actually work in order to fulfill the terms of their contract. Even when it comes to injuries, depending on the…

I honestly think Lexus was in a no-win situation regardless of what they did with the LF-A.

It was always going to be a money-losing halo vehicle, so I think they decided to switch to a carbon-fiber construction to actually, ironically enough, justify the price, because at the somewhat original specifications, it…

Ditto, although I’m a few months away from hitting 31.

I have enough of a social life that I don’t see the need to broadcast it to strangers. Honestly, I get the sense that some of these kids are convinced that things they experience in their lives either didn’t happen or don’t count unless other people see it. No…

That’s true, but Southwest did give me (and I’m sure plenty of others) vouchers for when our flights were cancelled back in October (during their weekend of chaos).

In Southwest’s case, they didn’t even claim it was a weather-related event. Thankfully I was able to find a different flight (though my later arrival…

I was a part of the Southwest cancellation wave back in October, and the counter-worker was nice enough to ensure my checked bags were switched to new planes multiple times due to me finding earlier replacement flights on their website.

Also, given I have an inordinate amount of friends who are flight attendants (for…

The LFA, a fantastic car, was almost dead in the water due to a combination of being priced too high for a weird mishmash of design and mechanical decisions that clearly showed a very long gestation time (high-revving front-engine V10 ala BMW M5/M6, carbon-fiber construction, polarizing looks, amazing engine sound,…

I think Bipppt’s point is that it’s disingenuous to say that Johnny Depp, post Scissorhands, has done very little but put on makeup and prosthetics, when most of his biggest and most well-received roles came after Scissorhands, and didn’t involve heavy makeup or prosthetics.

Gilbert Grape, Blow, Donnie Brasco, Fear &…

Yolanda was a rather famous model back in the day, and was a member of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for a number of years, well before either Gigi or Bella got famous (if I recall, they were just teenagers when Yolanda first started on the show, and their careers didn’t take off until she had left the show).

My reasons for being opposed, in some ways, to taxing unrealized capital gains is the same as yours: it’s a logistical nightmare.

I’m not nearly as sanguine about the fact that many multi-millionaires/billionaires are rather illiquid/cash poor. The thing is that the current tax structure (as well as the ready…

The alternative is to simply to pay them a higher salary.

Of course, this runs into a problem when you have companies that are valued highly, but don’t necessarily make profit (which is a lot of tech companies, especially early on). If you increase the upfront salaries (or tie cash bonuses to stock performance), the…

What are these non-applicable assumptions? It’s an adaptation of an already-existing work. The most reasonable assumptions, if any, are that an adaptation of a work is going to include important characters, wait for it, from that work. Your assumptions seem to be going off of a single trailer, which obviously isn’t…

I don’t particularly care about the sequence. I used the episode numbers because, frankly, a lot of people haven’t watched the anime in many years, and might not recall exactly when, chronologically, things happened in the anime. It’s not about Ed being in a specific episode, rather that the episodes we’ve seen that…