Jeez the reviews for this show are weird.

wait... you think that a man who is accused by his brother to have married a gold digger who is after their grandfather’s inheritance goes on a trip with somebody else’s grandfather to dig up literal gold only to unwittingly end up inheriting part of the gold he helped dig up from that stranger’s grandfather less…

Why such low grades? This is a remarkable show.

The thing is, it’s the industry setting them up for failure. The VFX studios themselves are the ones cutting costs and making their employees overworked since they’re working on lowest bid contracts (and presumably putting more staff onto more lucrative projects).

The thing is, it’s the industry setting them up for failure. The VFX studios themselves are the ones cutting costs and making their employees overworked since they’re working on lowest bid contracts (and presumably putting more staff onto more lucrative projects). These Marvel films use multiple VFX studios…

It’s been boiling for a long time but I think it’s reaching a crisis point. The works are gonna jam up good if VFX companies can’t stay in business, though of course the smart thing would be for the FX industry to unionize already. 

Not that this excuses Disney but I am pretty sure that this is exactly how every VFX firm in Hollywood operates. Here is an article from 2013 about the exact same problem and how the company that did the effects for Life of Pi went out of business.

I continue to think that the whole idea of a blood feud between Scorsese and Marvel fans is wildly overwrought. Scorsese basically said Marvel movies weren’t movies. A bunch of people disagreed with him — some loudly, some unnecessarily rudely, but that’s life in the NFL. No one tried to cancel Scorsese. No one tried…

Sigh...

Pro-choice does mean choice. Juno made the choice that she felt worked best for you. I think we also all have to be rational, too. The plot revolves around her and the adoptive parents. Her choosing not to have an abortion would sort of negate the movie.

I don’t get this. Juno’s choice - which is what she made, emphatically - had nothing to do with that asshole outside the clinic. She got in there and got to thinking about fingernails. That’s the center of the whole sequence. I think it’s a really nuanced way to show why she made the choice she made. It’s simple and…

Dr. Seuss had to tell anti-abortion people to fuck off too because of their coopting of Horton Hears a Who!

OK but how will this help exactly?

The term “toxic masculinity” might not have been in wide use in 1999, but Fight Club is 100% a critique of whatever we were calling it then.

“Cody herself being “bombarded with gory, misleading anti-abortion propaganda at school””

You can’t get much more obvious than the guy shouting all the toxic stuff literally being a mental illness.

“Conservatives interpreting Juno as pro choice makes as much sense as liberals retroactively declaring Fight Club to be a condemnation of “toxic masculinity.”’

Nothing to apologize for. Stylized dialogue has been around forever. Watch any teen movie from the 60s and prepare yourself for an earful of beatnik.

I remember around the time I saw this in, I was noticing a trend in movies/TV shows where a character will get an unwanted/inconvenient pregnancy and abortion isn’t even discussed as an option (or if so, it’s done in hushed terms and innuendos and never seriously considered). I think Juno came on the tail-end of that…

It’s really a shame that a movie which clearly thinks abortion should be legal but tells the story about a young woman who still decides not to get one is upheld as anti-choice/anti-abortion. I don’t think Cody has anything to apologize for.