Assuming Netflix changed it because the translation, “House of Paper”, is too similar to their own House of Cards. But how they ended up at Money Heist is an entirely different problem...

I didn’t know people in 2011 could comment on this article!

I didn’t love the book as much as I wanted to when I read it a few years ago, but the concept is so strong, I’m hopeful that the adaptation can smooth out some of its issues. Really looking forward to this one.

This is an extremely popular perspective that just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me in this context. Even if you ignore the fact that Aaron Dessner said multiple times that her label wasn’t even informed of the project until it was complete, we’re still talking about someone who found massive success with an entirely…

I can see that being their explanation, but still stuck out like a sore thumb in a bad way...bearing in mind that the characters never really feel that old and are pretty thinly characterized to begin with, dedicating only about 30 seconds of dialogue to conveying that aspect is kind of just cheap and lazy at best imo.

I was so so so excited to finally have a movie with gay action heroes and I mostly liked these ones well enough, but man, I HATED that scene in the truck. It felt so ham-fisted, nobody else in the movie (or even that character) talks like that again, and we never really get any sense of Nicky being…

I watched this for the first time on mushrooms last year. I have no idea what happened in it and it felt like it was 4 hours long. I have no plans to ever watch it sober. Would definitely recommend

Lily isn’t the only person to *have* free will but she’s the only person to *demonstrate* free will, which is what breaks Devs. She does this because she’s the only person who a) is confronted with the “reality” of determinism through devs and b) refuses to have blind faith in it. This is the only context in which…

Oh, the cast is completely perfect. The movie....well, great cast. Perfect cast.

My one question about this show, like any new show starting on a streaming service, is: does it actually have episodes? Or is it another one of those “10-hours movies” that are arbitrarily sliced up into hour-long segments with no contained structure of their own? This honestly to me has become a bigger factor that…

But the hows and whys – while fun and enjoyable– were also weightless and expected! I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m just saying I – as an MCU fan who has seen every movie on opening night for at least 5 years – probably would have given Endgame more than a moment’s thought after leaving the theatre if something genuinely…

I don’t think Endgame was pandering, at least not in a bad way. Everything made enough sense from a story and character perspective that it didn’t feel like it was straining to specifically accommodate what the audience wanted, even while it was doing that (and doing it well).

Unironically, I would watch the shit out of a movie about the impact of apps that basically offer sex delivery on an agoraphobic slut

Hmm, but which one of those relative considerations is actually relevant?

I enjoyed Endgame a lot, but to me, it was the epitome of what he’s talking about. Nothing in Endgame was surprising if you care about the franchise. Everything ended up exactly how you’d expect. The route there was a lot of fun, but for the big climax of a decade-long, 22-film franchise, it pretty much evaporated as…

If it’s true, that’s a really interesting and damning story (and awful for Fogel). I’m not saying it’s not true – it’s far from implausible – but I think we can be forgiven for not taking a random internet commenter’s story at face value when there’s nothing substantial to back it up from actual sources. I figured…

The script process and rewrites behind Booksmart are well-publicized and I don’t think anybody who’s at all curious would think that Olivia Wilde was behind the script/story as a personal “passion project”. I saw a Q&A with Katie Silberman (the final pass writer, I believe), where she was very open about it being a…

Thank you, ugh. This is one of the most common and most annoying modern examples of people dismissing a movie based on the shallowest possible reading.

Counterpoint: nothing about the concept of Boyhood suggests that it needs a “good story” to work as intended

If they have any sense they’ll be saving The Big Short for their worst movies of the decade list