Yes, except it would have been meaningless because the movie is ABOUT the Tate murders.

I think that, in itself, is sort of the point. She doesn’t really need to be a “deep” or “complex” character. She was a real person, and Tarantino doesn’t pretend to know her. He just lets her be.

That’s the entire point: Sharon Tate was a happy human being bearing a child with a bright future ahead of her, and then four assholes mutilated her and made her into a historical footnote about maniacal horror in suburban America. It’s actually pretty rare for a Hollywood film to memorialize someone who has famously…

Re: the filmmakers not representing what Manson was “really” about. That’s one of the smartest things they did— avoid giving him a platform and just let him be some dirty hippie nobody thinks twice on.

She built her image around being an aggressively sexual, party-girl. It’s sad that this happened, but also very on brand for her. It’s a little odd to me that she’s sometimes championed as a progressive or even feminist figure when her work seems at best banal and at worst, fairly exploitative. But I’m just musing and…

And it’s tiring.

You are an extremely unintelligent person. 

Well I thought this was funny.

It’s a podcast from the Ringer, which isn’t mentioned in the above write-up. After Tarantino, it’ll shift back to being about other filmmakers.

Unspooled is a favorite of mine thanks in large part to Amy Nicholson’s insights, so I’m excited about this.  

Podmass, 2014: You’ll be highly entertained by the latest episodes of Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, and You Made It Weird.

But that wasn’t the way Carmen presented in the ring. There, when putting it together, her idea was that she would go for a pin and that moment the person would disappear, which isn’t something that they can do. Additionally, if the cut the lights and someone disappeared, the opponent would look like an idiot if they…

I thought this episode again highlighted this season’s big issue of telling about a lot of things instead of showing it. Carmen’s discussion with her brother was a central example of this as I don’t think the show has really shown us that many examples Carmen’s brilliant wrestling, especially this season. Even the…

This is the correct take. And Cruise not winning an Oscar for this performance is tied with Pulp Fiction losing Best Picture to the ridiculous Forrest Gump for most egregious Oscar screw-up.

“Jeremy Blackman’s Stanley Spector more or less disappears during the third act, and his story suffers for it. Sure, there’s something powerful and moving about him telling his shithead dad that he ‘needs to be nicer,’ but it’s unclear exactly what prompts him to stand up for himself.”

Correction: Magnolia is perfect and every plotline is its best. 

This article is well-written and well thought-out, but unfortunately, it’s completely wrong. Every plot-line is amazing and not a single second should be cut from this messy masterpiece. Thank you and goodnight.

“Cartoon causes fascism”. I swear this is just as bad as the “video games cause gun violence” argument. And then capping it off with “likely unintentionally.”

My wife sent me this, which I thought was great.