No, no one in camera is responsible for any of that.

True enough about the female characters.

I said “a touch”. And yes, it’s partially because it doesn’t revel in violence, and it’s sexual content is PG-13 at its most graphic. But also because it’s about teenagers, has at least a couple of love triangles in it, and in general works best if you read it in your early to mid-teens.

How about we move on after we’re finished prosecuting the cases from it, most importantly Trump. However those cases pan out, anyone calling to move on before they’re finished has got some pretty suspect motives in my book.

What the fuck mixed feelings can you have about it?  Angry, sure.

But what is there to be confused about? A bunch of ill-informed idiots play-acting revolutionaries were egged on by a petty, desperate moron to charge the capital.  Be embarassed you share a country with them, sure.  But confused?  That doesn’t track.

Nearly as free, but not nearly as well-viewed, I imagine. The problem with music videos is that they’re (comparatively) long, and the minute a song comes on people don’t like, they’ll change the channel. Ridiculousness video runtimes are measured in seconds. It’s almost the textbook definition of second screen…

*ren-faire grade costumes that no one thought to age, even for the poorest and most bedraggled characters on the show

Eh... they were written before that was a thing, true. But they do have a touch of that feel to them.

In today’s edition of unnecessary complaints from an overly literal superhero-themed commenter: wouldn’t it make more sense to call Kevin Hart’s show Heart to Hart, instead of what it is now, since it’s the guest opening up to him?

The film already clocks in at almost two hours.  I’m guessing a romantic triangle subplot pushes that to 135 min or more, which feels like a LOT for what needs to be a breezy excuse for a bunch of Beatles cover song sequences.

Yeah, that’s where he lost me completely. Even if that’s what you think, don’t say that shit out loud. The modern Highlander fan base probably isn’t that wide or deep, but there’s still no reason to burn them on your project before you’ve even rolled a camera.

They cut the trailers before the movie is done with editing. The likelihood that this was intentional misdirection is nearly zero. Much more likely is that at some point after the trailer was out but before the movie was released, they decided that de Armas’ storyline didn’t help the movie, so they cut it out.

“I don’t recall the movie ever insinuating that Sheeran was a bigger success because the Beatles never existed.”

It’s a little hard to know because there’s comparatively not many director’s cuts released, but has there ever been a case of a really great film being turned into a shitty one by studio meddling? I’m hard pressed to think of an example.

Usually the director’s cut is... fine, just like the movie was... fine. I’m…

This. Studios take great scripts and make shitty scripts out of them all the time. Making a shit movie out of a great one seems unlikely.  Making a mediocre movie out of a slightly less mediocre movie?  That I can buy.

It’s utterly beyond function on iPhone’s Safari app. On the rare occasions someone shares an article, I actually have had better luck getting it to load through Facebook’s internal browser (which should be very telling, given how shitty that is), but I’ve completely given up visiting the site on mobile otherwise.

Ok, leaving aside the forest-for-the-trees problem of my imperfect analogy still communicating the general idea of what I was going for... and leaving aside the fact that while it’s not for sure a shitty “car”, it’s definitely not a “car” that the execs are head-over-heels sure is going to be a smash hit...

I know it’s hard to fact check... [clicks link] your own website... but the guard at the Taylor Swift concert wasn’t fired for singing along to a song, he was fired for giving his phone number out to concert goers soliciting pictures of himself in front of the stage.

Based on the current state of politics, health care, QAnon, and the flat earth movement, I would say that is categorically NOT how information works today.

It feels like that would open up a massive can of IP law worms to me.  You’d essentially be giving someone with no claim to the copyright say in how and when the work is sold.