Thank you for linking the article. Definitely hadn’t heard about the changes.

It’s a shame, because I think if Suicide Squad had been better written and not chopped to all hell, Will as Deadshot would’ve been integral to the team.

That being said, since it seems obvious that they’re angling for Margot Robbie as Harley…

Victor Hugo, if I’m not mistaken, was the stand-in for where Junior would be had Junior been an actual actor. However, the stand-in wasn’t saying any of the lines, nor was he doing any of the movements of that Junior would later do. Remember, Junior is fully done in CGI; the reason why they say “on-set” reference is…

Well I’ll be damned. Hadn’t heard this until now.

Can’t get mad at the casting switch if it does happen. I like both actors and the work they’ve done, but it goes to the point I’ve made above.

Young kids probably know Will Smith more from his inspirational videos on Youtube and Instagram than his movie, and even though…

From what I read, how they did the CGI was needlessly complicated.

Will Smith apparently wasn’t acting against anything or anyone. Young Will, as the article said, was completely CGI, so the only time Will was interacting with another person physically was with the other actual actors, or a stuntman on the scenes.…

I, Robot strikes me as being about a decade too early, but it makes sense given that Spielberg and Tom Cruise had turned out Minority Report two years earlier, so they were striking the sci-fi iron while they thought it was hot.

I mean, it’s also shitty luck (and bad writing) that Will Smith basically had his version…

I, Robot was a hit.

The real failures were Wild Wild West, Seven Pounds, After Earth, and Collateral Beauty.

Now this. Basically, everything post 2010 has essentially been a lost decade for Will Smith, save for perhaps Focus, which I enjoyed (and which the article references Margot Robbie, who co-starred), but was…

So what they’re saying, in essence, is that his casting in The Lincoln Lawyer (a distressingly underrated film) was strikingly appropriate?

I mean, you have multiple people who are giving you examples, from historical fact, of people using ploys such as this for the purposes of making money. You can disagree, but the historical record isn’t supporting your side.

You’re also assuming any thief or schemer is operating in a perfectly rational manner, which is…

Embezzlement is incredibly common. Thing is, we only here about the big cases because they are so outlandish in comparison to what goes under the radar.

When you’re speaking about companies that are making hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in revenue on an annual basis (and in some cases, on a quarterly …

Someone who has been used, because of his career starting so young, of having everyone do all of the logistical things for him, while he focuses on being in front of the camera.

The moment they have to do shit for themselves, they have no background or frame of reference, so they often fuck it all up. I mean, he…

People are more apt to forgive a straight domestic abuser than they are a minority who claims a hate crime happened when it didn’t, specifically if their claim is predicated solely on satisfying their greed or need for attention, both of which seem to be the case.

It would be one thing if we all knew that Jussie had a…

Simple. A sympathetic performer going through a tough time brings viewers to the show. More viewers = more ad revenue. More ad revenue = more money to pay the performers.

It’s no different than someone making a comeback from a grievous injury or a personal moral failing. Look how many people were eager to view Tiger…

Is it really so unheard of?

I would argue that Black Panther doesn’t even really touch on the issues involving the African diaspora and the resulting development of an African-American identity versus that of an African one, for a number of reasons.

1. Wakanda is fictional. This is critically important. Nowhere in the movie does it explicitly…

Did you really just say that you’ve never seen a major motion picture deal with the after-effects of transatlantic slave trade or incorporate African culture? If that’s the case, your lack of knowledge and incuriosity basically takes you out of this conversation.

As I said in another response, because athletic scholarships have a hard limit that’s set by the NCAA, the marginal cost(s) to the university is two-fold.

In specific you the case of athletic scholarships, they are limited on a school-by-school basis from the NCAA down. That’s why you don’t see either the Ivy leagues (with the largest endowments) or public universities with storied programs and lots of financial support from boosters (such as an Alabama, Clemson, or…

Exactly. In addition, Faison and Ribiero have less of a claim because of what follows.

Let’s not forget her in “Best in Show”. She was glorious.

I’ll take your kind response in reverse: that’s actually what my cousin did. There was, if I recall, a $1k limit to the open bar, and it only took around an hour to hit. Thankfully, I brought a flask with me (and I went out afterwards), so I wasn’t too out in the wilderness.

To your main point, I agree that wedding…