(Pretty late since I wasn’t checking notifications sorry) I think part of what it comes down to is these mega blockbusters are not really the underdogs anymore. Sure in the 1990s comic books were largely looked down upon and Marvel in particular was actually in danger of going under, for better or worse, but that time…

Pretty late because I wasn’t checking notifications, but again you just really couldn’t be more wrong about that, e.g.:

Yeah that’s such a weird one to lead the article with. Ellen is definitely by a lot of accounts a terrible person and I’ve never heard any good stories about working at that show, but....that one wasn’t an example of a toxic environment, it’s an example of another entitled celebrity also throwing a fit because they…

Nolan’s not really speaking as a viewer though. He’s speaking as a creative, and HBO Max/Warner’s treatment of the creatives recently has been basically objectively bad.

You don’t have to! It still stands that you clearly didn’t read what he actually said, or considered it on its own terms. You’ve read a headline and then formulated what you think he said in your head, and then reacted to that. If you hate every single Scorsese film ever made, that’s fine, I don’t care, but it’s…

I guess it depends on what we’re talking about here. Partly what I’m reacting to is the idea that simply by virtue of something existing in the capitalist framework, or having to aim to make some kind of money, that it isn’t art. I think the capitalist framework is harmful to art and often compromises it, *but* that…

Aside from that description not matching quite a bit of his filmography, few filmmakers, or even just people on earth, have done more to elevate world cinema, films by women and people of color, etc, than Scorsese has. A shit ton of movies would just be out of circulation if not for Scorsese himself being involved in…

Look, like Jesse I like Pixar (used to love before Cars 2 started a sequel-happy last decade+ for them). But aside from the fact that they’ve just made way fewer films than Touchstone has in total, they’re all kind of the same movie. I don’t even mean that disparagingly, but look, they’re all kids’ movies,…

In his actual essay he talks about how it can be done better and explicitly references a couple of them that do. As usual someone trying to do that “old man” thing with him has not actually read what he said or considered it beyond a headline.

In capitalism the former is not really possible. That’s the thing. Barring the occasional passion project where the person making it knows they’re going to lose money (and I mean *they* will lose money, not financial backers), all art is made with the goal of making money in some capacity, because artists have to…

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.

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.