I am a film fan and I don’t tend to base my enjoyment (or lack, thereof) on soundtrack choices. Had a nice time with this film and thought it was funny, smart, insightful, with great direction and tone. Not a Matthews fan but the song inclusion did nothing to influence my enthusiasm. Glad it all works for you but…

Occam’s Razor doesn’t state you should make the simplest assumption about causality about every situation you happen upon.

Occam’s Razor doesn’t state you should make the simplest assumption about causality about every situation you happen upon.

Let’s all keep villainizing people who didn’t even do anything or happen to be in the vicinity of those who did, that’s very healthy, especially someone like Simon who has worked his entire career to bring light to social issues that need attention, at the risk of making some very not fun tv shows that don’t get…

Absolutely not. That’s what I find so infuriating about all these articles (particularly on Jezebel) about how Greta Gerwig should have been nominated. Listen, I’m a lady, but I don’t want to be singled out because of said ladyiness, but instead for actual accomplishments. I like Ladybird okay, but I wouldn’t rank it…

Should women be nominated just because they are women? If the best directors were all women would you be making a fuss that there are no men?

We can disagree that including a “powerful topic” in an artistic work demands that it be the centerpiece.

That’s because the film you watched—the film we’re discussing—isn’t a thoughtful meditation about how a person is socialized to become a racist. You’re criticizing a piece of art for not being another piece of art.

Whoo boy, here we go.

So many people seem to have this tendency when analyzing stories (be they films, books, whatever) of only thinking in absolutes. Just cause Sam Rockwell’s character shows that he’s not a complete monster, does that have to automatically mean the storyteller is absolving him of his flaws?…

{Spoilers} I didn’t like the flashback where the daughter says something like, “Fine, don’t give me a ride—I’ll walk and get raped,” and then her mom says, “Fine, get raped,” and then that’s what happened, because a) who talks like that, besides fake-edgy characters, and b) how contrived can you get?

Can we finally agree that Birdman was terrible? Impressive cinematography, great performances, but the script was so far up its own ass. I’m usually all for this kind of meta-aware pretension, but it just was so head-slappingly proud about its freshman-level insights on the nature of art.

I can’t say if I loved or hated this movie. It just came off as really really strange in its story structure and pacing, and then it ends and I said, “Wait, that can’t be all there is.”

Agree 100%. Dinklage saying with sad eyes “you know, I didn’t have to hold your ladder” was ham-fisted and unnecessary, we already got that she treated him poorly. Like why not put an arrow and big flashing letters above his head that says THIS DUDE IS SAD NOW.

Yes the red herring part of the plot was awful and unnecessary - as was the deer scene, the ex husband subplot and Dinklage’s subplot.

I feel like if Em could work with a producer that actually makes good beats a significant portion of the criticism would subside. Sure, his lyrics are pretty repetitive as he’s been doing the same schtick for a long while now but that gets amplified when the tracks are hot garbage

I loved Ewan McGregor in Fargo but I really think Jude Law should’ve won for The Young Pope he was utterly amazing in it.

Not really. It’s not like it was a remake of the Room. He had to act like a person whose profession was “bad actor/director.”

In Bruges accepts your retroactive award. I’m souring on Three Billboards and I hope this doesn’t lead to an Oscar.

Kyle MacLachlan should have won and Twin Peaks: The Return should have been nominated for things and won them.

Ewan McGregor was great on Fargo but Kyle MacLachlan was a fucking revelation. Hope he gets plenty of other awards for playing Cooper this year.