I don’t know if there’s it’s time for a dance movie revival (honestly I’m not a fan myself), but I did see an interesting one a few years back called The Way We Keep Dancing (2020). Apparently it’s a sequel to The Way We Dance (2013), a Chinese movie about HK dance crew’s rise and fall. I didn’t see the first one, but…

Yeah, I don’t know what the right presentation is, and biopics in general are such subjective works, but her associations—continuing after the war—feel weightier than caught in the times. All the while you can walk into the Children’s section of bookstores and find bios of her by herself or in collections.

The first I…

It’s a fascinating period, and having read a little bit about it, I guess I wonder how coy it about Chanel’s Nazi associations. Given the phrasing of “a German intelligence officer who soon uses his tryst with the designer to turn her into a Nazi asset”, it sounds like a fair amount. I’m not saying one can’t have a…

Did people hate her? I’m not that online about the show, so I think it’s eminently possible, but I usually have an impression of that kind of thing. Like I know people ship Carmy and Sydney (and I am in the camp of let people be friends sometimes.)

I mean this honestly as a sign of my lack of imagination, but for a mmo, what else could it have been? I guess some restrictions on player interaction could produce something like Genshin or the Souls games—where the way of drop in and out produces just a different cycle. Otherwise, it sounds like the lament for a…

I think nepo coverage is overplayed, or undernuanced, but the difference is that the calling out is usually over careers where breaking in has a huge amount of luck factored in. Sustainable careers are readily available in all the trades you mentioned w/o fame, but that’s much harder in the entertainment realm. Also,…

It has a genuinely ambivalent center, whereas no other superhero, let alone MCU movie, does. Too much for one movie, though--to me it was like every 4-5 scenes would have room to breathe, and everything else was a rush--it feels like its missteps were really avoidable. If they hired Chloe Zhao for a movie focused on…

I feel bad about the thrill I feel when he shoots the innocent wife of the corrupt cop to get him going, and fully feel betrayed when Neeson’s character doesn’t try to save anyone else—the social compact of righteous violence movies to me is trying, which is an imaginary line, but it’s my line.

I only know what the algorithms show me!

Lol--I just corrected google maps that the bonchon closest to me is not a Japanese restaraunt.

YouTube has been feeding his shorts to me, and the material I’ve seen has an edgy wind-up, and finish with a “were you laughing because you’re agreeing with the racism? You’re kinda dumb.” He’s playing the line well, I see why they might pick him. YMMV, milder but targeting a different crowd than Bill Burr’s turns,…

For me, exhausting is true for everything Matthew Vaughn after Layer Cake, or First Class, where he was beholden a licensor.

Just a random note about the price conversation—I know it’s a way to tell people not familiar with the region that prices are really high, but why set it up with Navarro acting like she just noticed?

I think the Navarro’s childhood story is meant to spread the idea that if she has supernatural encounters, it could just be her family’s history of “loco.”

Honestly, I think that’s just cause the cycle renewed itself. The prequels are a hit with people who are in their twenties and even early thirties now--who saw it when they were kids. People who are younger connect with the even newer content. That’s what the op is getting at.

The zen fighter thing hokey the first time around, but it did actually create some tension different than just having the audience waiting for the ultimate badass to badass a fight. Former MMA fighter just doesn’t translate

Oh hey, Jason Isaacs!

Hmm, for me the “Brat Pack” still has no or a mildly negative connotation. The actors themselves have outgrown it, and I have, but I dunno if it’s been revamped. Mostly it’s just been a long time, so who talks about them that way?

When it works for me, it’s when it’s used to acknowedge stuff like the genre’s tropes and all. A little bit goes a long way, so it’s hit or miss, but I don’t think it’s inherently stupid. Admittedly, I’m also well away from “takes his marvel shows too seriously’ type, though sometimes I’m no fun anyway.

Ah, it’s thing from the comics, which are things I wish got more credit, even when don’t work.