Real life is 30 Rock now, I fucking swear God Cop is hitting HBO Max next june

Seven minutes had passed since Zaslav discovered the tax breaks

HBOMax has fantastic content, but the user interface does kind of suck. So basically, they are getting rid of the good half.

Pretty soon, HBO is going to have their own Shark Week. 

He’s disassembling his boat so he can have plywood to cling to.

Here’s to hoping. It fucking sucks that Disney just leaves a destructive trail of overworked, debt-ridden VFX houses in its wake, but also controls the market so much that companies have no other choice but to work with them. And to top it all off, no one even takes VFX artists seriously. Remember when Life of Pi won…

I agree, I think it is weird that we keep expecting artists to be multifaceted. Reminds me of that episode of The Other Two where he has to write a screenplay just to get accepted into a talent agency because they only took people with more than one skill.

Don’t know too much, but hasn’t Flanagan talked about how he doesn’t like jump scares, and he tries to avoid them as much as he can? I remember reading something about how he put an obnoxious amount of them in his newest show to try to get executives asking for more of them off of his back.

No, that’s too crazy.

Why was my favorite part of this seeing Jason Ritter do Sesame Street

Parler has a racism zone. You can’t be not racist, but you also can’t be too racist. For a while, Kanye rode the middle ground.

The crossover people neither needed nor wanted. I love it.

Now I regret procrastinating watching the second season. I felt the same way after AP Bio got canceled a second time.

Yeah, the mainstream thing was a poorly worded aside. I wasn’t trying to say that people thought Avatar was too mainstream. It just felt like people who argue that Avatar is bad on the basis of it’s cultural relevance are the same kind of people also try to actively not like mainstream things. It was a dumb argument.

You’re right. No one quotes Avatar, barely anyone wanted to become a filmmaker because of it. It had a huge effect on the use of CGI in movies (for worse in my opinion, though I don’t necessarily think it’s Cameron’s fault), but other than that it was pretty unimpactful.

Yeah, that’s a good point. Plus, now that I am thinking about it more, I don’t even think it is the same type of person. When I said ‘pretentious’, I was mainly talking about people on letterboxd who use unnecessarily big words in their reviews like ‘dogmatic’ or ‘pernicious’ or ‘avatar’.

Maybe it was a straw man, it just seems that there are more people talking about how overrated Avatar was than people who... liked avatar.

I mean, quality is subjective, but I think we can agree that a lot of popular movies/shows aren’t necessarily good. I really don’t want to sound pretentious or anything, but shows like Supernatural or Teen Wolf have huge fan bases, and I wouldn’t say either of those are great. Maybe I just have a different/incorrect…

I mean it is pretty funny, I just think that it is kind of dumb when people try to actually criticize it on those grounds. 

The whole notion of judging a movie by its ‘cultural impact’ is kind of dumb in my opinion, especially because a lot of the people who criticize Avatar for not having one are the same kind of pretentious people who think any movie that ever turned a profit is too ‘mainstream’ or whatever.