It hurt my ears, the Olsen one. Not their fault, they definitely didn’t write lyrics like “your pint-sized frame” (not sure that’s right but no way am I going to check).

I though Upton Sinclair did this expose and it’s all fine now?

Watched this with my kids. The little girl is utterly adorable. The adult cast is close to 100% comedians so that makes it go down easier for adult viewers. I love Ben Schwartz, he’s so funny but he can do the serious stuff too.

I started tipping a lot more during the pandemic--delivery workers but also at the grocery store checkout, etc.--and it really made me ask myself why I had not been tipping that much all along.

He does more than that, though.  What about Diner Lobster?  Not what you’d think of as a classic Kenan sketch, but he knocks it out of the park.  

I listen to classical music for pleasure (I was raised to appreciate it and didn’t see a reason to rebel—not on that front, at least). But I rarely watch “cinema” because to me watching filmed content is a only-for-fun thing—and then, sure enough, when I do watch something more challenging I’m really glad I did. So…

Still a better choice than Billy Zane.

I agree, it would have been a *lot* weaker if you didn’t have all the scenes with secondary characters. They gave emotional weight to the whole thing that was definitely not earned by the mustache-twirling villainy and soapy teen romance.

Especially Cameron personally sketching Kate Winslet nude for the “draw me like one of your French girls” scene.  Skeevy, and bad drawing to boot.

And then there you have it, Titanic, the Sequel! Bill Paxton on the run from the Russians, with old lady and crew in tow. They would just stay on the boat the whole time, for nautical continuity.

Not to mention, the ship was only equipped with six or seven floating rescue door-rafts, with a maximum capacity of one person per door.

I’ll never forget how the entire theater erupted in cheers and applause when the Darth Vader helmet got put on and we finally, finally heard James Earl Jones’s voice. It generated a bit of cognitive dissonance when you considered what was actually happening in the story.

I hear you, and I don’t disagree. It’s just that I’m imagining how this is all going to play out in the context of a Scorsese movie.  

I agree.

The book was a great read, and revelatory, but it was shaped as a bit of a white savior story. Judging by the fact that Scorsese is making this and putting in his favorite actors, I’m afraid the movie will double down on that. Also at its heart it’s a story of Native women, and what are the chances they won’t end up…

I can’t hear the word “jasmine” without seeing Gina Torres and hearing David Boreanaz and Vincent Kartheiser sing “... and I’ll love you forever, oh Jasmine!”

Best take.

Peak Taye Diggs was such a great romantic lead. Also I love the revelation that “Love stories happen in communities outside of just the Upper West Side of Manhattan.” If you were an alien studying our cinematic culture in the 1990s/early aughts, you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

We have a DVD of the Star Wars Christmas Special and for a while that was a rare gem; can’t get rid of it now.

Maybe, it could work. Like sticking Paul Walker in that car for a final no-dialogue drive-by.