Those who were critical of the film found the lack of stakes—or rather, the low stakes—of the movie frustrating

I certainly would hate to be an artist nowadays as much as I respect them, practically every start-up to big name publisher companies are always short-changing the labor an artist does through their lacking-to-no pay efforts and always trying to make the offer worth their while despite it. There is a…

This is absolutely right. The theater chains have putting out a mediocre experience for years, and only started catching up years and years after places like Alamo showed them a better way.

you forgot subtitles and not leaving with additional hearing damage.

I know most people here don’t like it, but movie theaters are back

ya it’s great. i feel a lot safer. people worry me especially at big movies. i hope wb/hbomax does what disney+ is by putting the releases on the streaming service after they run their course in theaters. it was great to see shang-chi and black widow at home and looks like eternals will be on in january. would love to…

Which is exactly what I thought at first and then I did the math if I was to invest compared to if I regularly went and it almost balanced out. Movie-going was a little cheaper but the longer I watch at home the more the scale changes.

With Omicron highly more contagious and variations continuing to mutate, this sounds like a grand idea. 

All of this. I coudnt say it better so I will just star this. Now if you excuse me I have to go reply to a comment on one of mine and explain how gatekeeping is not expressing an opinion and that calling it out is not gatekeeping Gawker comments. 

I think people enjoy and appreciate seeing a sincere tribute to someone. But the “sincerity” of the gesture is called into question when you’re turning a dead person into a digital asset for no other reason than you can, and you would like to use the emotions associated with this now dead person to juice the depth of…

Oh, absolutely, I can see that being the case. And to go one further I think people are even misidentifying that issue with the climax as “nostalgia pandering” rather than “three old guys showing up at just the moment they did when there was no way they should have known to do so is a deus ex machina, regardless of…

To me it comes across not as people genuinely thinking about how Harold Ramis, himself, would feel about this

“It’s impossible to talk about Lord of the Rings without understanding the series as being part of Amazon Studios’ growing presence in the media production business, and how that presence is only possible thanks to Amazon’s vast sums of ill-gotten cash that has come at the expense of workers’ lives.”

Heck if they can CG out wire harnesses for every single stunt movie - they could have scuba gear on all of them and take that out in post. They don’t need to make them hold their breath.

Cameron has this boner disregarding the safety of his cast and crew in order to get a shot. The man’s ego is ginormous, and nobody ever stops him. So of course he keeps completly insane, unecessary stuff, because who are we to question his genius?

“weird water fetish”

Pre-COVID, I would have bet on Avatar 2 being a smash hit (with the following Avatar movies all hitting diminishing returns. Post-COVID, yikes, “Are we gonna’ make any damn money” indeed.

Not true. Words have historical contexts that shape their connotative meaning. “Cracker” has none of the (frankly despicable) historical context of systemic oppression that slurs like the n-word have. Words like the n-word were used to express white dominance over another race and culture. Words like “cracker” were…

As a FDA certified saltine myself, god white people are so fucking fragile.

Yeah, let me know when there’s a Marvel movie on par with, oh, Fargo or No Country For Old Men.