It seems like you’re just justifying classism and elitism within art access with extra steps.

Art doesn’t become not art - or not “high” art - because it’s accessible or seen by a lot of people. That’s ridiculous, and is basically a way of saying that something can’t be art unless it’s bankrolled by rich white people,…

South Park has its problems, but I genuinely cannot think of a presidential election in my lifetime where that wasn’t an accurate summation, and I’m in no way a centrist or libertarian.

All art produced within a capitalist framework has to exist within that framework. That doesn’t make it not art. Novels, music, whatever else are all produced within capitalism’s framework too (at least those not produced in socialist countries), but that doesn’t make a lot of them not art.

Wow, it’s almost like you know literally nothing about Scorsese’s efforts to preserve and distribute foreign films and those made by PoC, and have completely misunderstood his point!

Imagine having the Noid as your avatar and not liking Chapo.

Countering abuse in the industry is absolutely important, and fuck Whedon, but this article isn’t using a correct understanding of auteur theory at all. What it describes is not auteur theory.

Income inequality has only gotten worse and worse, climate change is rapidly speeding towards the breaking point, and we’ve been in a number of wars in the middle east for decades now for reasons that no one can even bother trying to explain anymore. You tell me if things are actually going well for average people…

Obama is a great orator with objectively garbage politics and political instincts, and the protests we’re seeing as of late are in part a direction reaction to the utter failure of his legacy.

Side note, but I finally saw It’s A Wonderful Life I think three years ago, and it was one of those movies I worried wouldn’t really appeal to me without the nostalgia goggles of having grown up with it. But honestly? It really is a fantastic film. Fully deserving of its reputation. I went and saw it again the…

“Die Hard fails at this... I’m not even sure that bruce willis goes through any kind of self realization transformation throughout the movie,”

...I mean....he kinda literally does? The heart at the middle of the film is his coming to terms with his failures as a husband and father. It’s made particularly explicit in…

Strip it down and Die Hard is a film about about a man who has been estranged from his wife and has to find a way to make peace with her and his failings as a husband and father. They’re not as different are you’re insisting.

I’d throw in (fitting for the article) It’s a Wonderful Life too. People forget only like the latter third of that film even takes place at Christmas (less than Die Hard!) and the plot could have easily been done without it being set at Christmas at all. Still an undisputed Christmas classic.

And of course, tons of…

It became a Christmas tradition for me well before it became a cliche online joke. No it’s not a movie about how Christmas has to be saved for the thousandth time but how many of those films are any good?

What’s especially troubling is that the film seems to portray this as a positive - like he “grew up” and finally did the right thing, i.e. engaging with American capital and abandoning his idealism.

Great movie, I love Peele but I don’t know if this really needs a remake. The biggest issue is that honestly it just holds up too well already. I don’t really know what anyone could add to it that would meaningfully update it. It’s already only become more relevant in the modern era.

I don’t know if this is a popular opinion but honestly IMO it’s a terrible movie. Not only is it meandering and messy but the characters’ actions aren’t really (internally) believable and a major plot point is that Vince Vaughn is basically raped by his future wife and decides that he likes it. There’s a few decent…

To the extent that was true (it wasn’t to my memory, but I imagine it depends on what games you were playing), it’s probably just because a lot of third party developers treated the GameCube as an afterthought, before largely moving away from it entirely outside of some exclusives. The actual exclusives usually looked…

I think it’s probably the combination of the DNA and the weed. Otherwise she would have gotten a mustache long ago.

True as it goes, but misses the point. In that season they repeatedly had Mr. Garrison, as Trump stand-in, practically breaking the fourth wall to say “yeah she sucks but unlike me she has some idea of how to run a country.” They were basically making fun of the frustration many had with the fact that Trump was…

I’m not sure there’s as much of a distinction between deadpan and earnest as you think there is, but Airplane!-style deadpan or whatever would absolutely not have worked, because it’s still obviously in a “comedy” mode. Even with those movies, they intentionally picked actors who were mostly known for dramatic work,…