Dear young nerd, I am an old nerd. I did not like football players at school because they were mean. I eventually (and probably later than I should have) realized that not all football players are mean, In fact, the very best football players are all extraordinarily smart and have to put in an amount of dedication…

Possibly career management. He’s trying to get work in an industry lacking a predictive understanding of nuance. You can be a geek or a cat enthusiast AFTER you make it on your surface appeal. But before that we want a big muscle man or a sexy boob lady. You can’t have a real personality until you’re successful.

That said generally agree on most of the other terms. I saw a recipe on Instagram recently for “healthy” Nutella that was still made of a ton of oil and sugar. Like I can see specific reasons to make your own Nutella (like wanting to avoid palm oil for environmental reasons), but swapping maple syrup for normal sugar…

While a lot of people use the volume eating concept to the extreme as basically a way to maintain a starvation diet, it doesn’t have to be that way. Even a very small calorific deficit to lose weight in a healthy way could potentially leave you hungry if you don’t incorporate some higher volume foods. You could still…

I’ve always loved the term “natural” which invariably seems  meant to imply “good for you” in adverts. If I was to feed you “natural” cyanide extracted from “natural” stone fruit pits you would be “naturally” dead nonetheless.

I mean, Parasite checked ALL the boxes, was masterfully crafted,

well played

I hate that the Academy caved into the people looking for attention and validation “oh please, authority figure, please notice me, and validate me and my opinions”

Alien is seriously underrated as an example of worldbuilding through production design. All of the stuff that’s now canon — like Weyland-Yutani and the various military/economic blocs running human space — started out as minor set and costume details that Scott hashed out with Ron Cobb. 

An aesthetic *and* good storytelling/worldbuidling I would argue. I think the first was amazing for the genre defining look it built. I actually enjoyed the story in the second a lot better and felt it was overall more enjoyable.

So I’m excited to see where this goes!

Statistically, most movies are.

That’s pretty much the giveaway that a movie isn’t gonna win Best Picture.

It’s been ten noms for over a decade now. That way they can recognize the “quality” movies (which will actually win Best Picture) and the ones that people actually saw and made lots of money. (I am actually a little surprised No Way Home didn’t get a glancing acknowledgement in the latter category, since it actually…

On the one hand, it’s cool to see that Dune came in second after Power of the Dog with the most nominations.

You need to be focusing on consonants, not vowels as your strategy. Vowels come naturally.

No offense to James, who seems like a perfectly pleasant guy, but, like Charles, his takes?

Maybe there is another person on the team who enjoys Star Wars who can also write some articles?

The problem here in this analysis of Luke is that you’re stuck on Luke not learning the lessons you thought he learned.

Yeah no, sorry. I don’t take feedback from people who say — and there’s a lot of you on the internets — “I didn’t watch blabla and from what I can see I made the right choice”.

Meta strikes me as an odd criticism to make of a scream movie.