I don’t know about “realistically” since it wasn’t nominated, but he should have won for The Dark Knight, full stop. All due respect to Slumdog Millionaire which was indeed very good, but Dark Knight, Best Picture, Best Director.

Fun fact: more time has now passed between Tim Burton’s first Batman movie and now than between the Adam West TV show and Batman ‘89. To your point about time blurriness, it sure doesn’t feel like it.

I’m not putting down Oppenheimer; I really like The Departed. And yes, I’ve seen Infernal Affairs; I still like Departed more. But even at the time, the consensus was that Scorsese was long overdue for an Oscar win, his Departed Oscars really felt like a belated award for his earlier works.

Sure, but no sense in tolerating an annoyance that can be turned off for now. I wouldn’t be surprised if most people didn’t even know that they could turn it off because the toggle is somewhat buried in the settings.

Rooting for my boi Chris even though if he wins for Oppenheimer, it’ll be kind of like a Scorsese/Departed win to me.

You can turn that off in the settings.

Yes! More voices! All the voices!

Can’t flop if you’re never in the box office.

ETA: whoops, didn’t mean to post as a reply. Sorry!

Not necessarily. Some CEOs prioritize the long-term sustainability of a company, and make long-term strategic decisions. Some CEOs actually value their workers. CEOs of private companies don’t have a share price to worry about at all.

Not saying it’s criminal activity, but we know there were veterans that turned down the job because they would be required to juggle duties, and from the stories that we’ve heard about the set, even if they had found a seasoned pro to agree to work as an armorer/prop assistant, they probably would’ve walked off the…

The biggest mistake at the production level was hiring someone unqualified for the job eliminating the line item for hiring an armorer full time from the budget.

I haven’t read every article about the case out there, but I still appreciate when they do raise concerns about all of the issues behind-the-scenes, since the vast majority of people don’t follow the case and only retain the snippets of information that get repeated in the headlines. You’re right that this case isn’t…

In addition, actor or not, everyone handling an actual firearm with the intention of operating it is responsible for personally verifying the condition of the weapon and not aiming it at anyone until they do.

I don’t think it’s “hard” to understand, just that based on what was excerpted in this write-up, my own perspective & experiences, and based on other filmmakers that have expressed similar views, I don’t understand why something has to stay “dead” just because it didn’t make it into the final film. I didn’t draw the…

As a human being checking the gun IS Baldwin’s responsibility.

If criminal background checks were some infallible way to pick out the troublemakers and ne’er-do-wells, maybe not. Since they only catch people who have been previously caught and arrested, I’m somewhat skeptical of their utility. Like do we have a 0% abuse rate among senior care workers now? Did criminal background…

There’s a cruel Republican solution for that too: make migrants build their own houses.

Huh? I’m responding to his belief that, “when it’s not in the movie, it’s dead,” presumably as the reason that Stephen Henderson and Tim Blake Nelson’s scenes will never be seen (though in rereading AVC’s write-up, I realized that’s an inference this writer is leading readers to make, and I’m too lazy to read the…

Sometimes I remove shots and I say, ‘I cannot believe I’m cutting this out.’ I feel like a samurai opening my gut. It’s painful, so I cannot go back after that and create a Frankenstein and try to reanimate things that I killed. It’s too painful. When it’s dead, it’s dead, and it’s dead for a reason.