same vibes

You know what I was thinking about this morning? He did this bit for months live, presumably, before putting it in his special. That means hundreds or thousands of people saw it and were cool with it. Woof.

4. Quitting Twitter

He could have very well been in a scene where he was required to fire it at the camera, we don’t know.

I’m curious exactly what the line is that even conservatives aren’t willing to back.

Man if that tour thing did happen (which I suspect it will not, for a variety of reasons), can you imagine how stale and busted the trans material in it will be? It’d be tripling down on doubling down, which he already did with this special, and he certainly isn’t gonna learn to not be a shithead about trans issues…

Any chance they can fire and recast that anti-vax twit Letitia Wright?

Someone needs to tell these guys “You realize you’re literally the bad guys from Philadelphia right now?”

If Sarandos thinks that viewing bigoted content doesn’t have a connection to real world actions, let me introduce him to a little movie called BIRTH OF A NATION.

yeah this was not something this guy pulled out of his ass; it has a musical score; someone paid for possibly 2 or 3 actors, realistic sets, makeup; he may have had to pay a licensing fee if it is indeed a “word-for-word” recap of that part from a book.  The whole thing was way too polished to be some rando’s “passion…

At the time of this scene, sending a video to someone’s daughter would have required a correct home address and the capability to dub a VHS tape. Condensing that process down to a few quick clicks has somehow also removed the thought “Is this really a good idea?” from the equation.

I cannot even fathom actually sitting down to watch this miserable fuckin internet saga as a whole-ass movie. Jesus Christ

I get it, the news anchor is cool. But shouldn’t this be more about Mr. Premium? I mean, c’mon. My cold grey heart just grew three sizes today.

I’m not in the entertainment industry, but I also get the impression it takes more than just viral fame to get a film done— especially when it’s about a real person or event. There’s meetings and money and legal documents that need to be exchanged first.

Again - no, you don’t NEED permission, but the idea that there’s no such thing as “securing the rights to a life story” isn’t true, either, because it’s happened before, it will happen again, and it’s not even a weird, arcane practice I’m referencing. People seem to believe there’s a “Robin Williams Biopic” project…

I think political figures have more wiggle room because for a biopic on Williams, there’s a fair amount of IP you need the rights to otherwise you can’t say things like “Mork & Mindy” “Mrs Doubtfire” “Aladdin” etc. Like there was an unauthorized biopic about David Bowie where they couldn’t use any of his music... who…

To be fair, most the major influential elements of the X-Men we know today come from the book’s late-70's, early-80's relaunch of the X-Men book.

It’s not really “test footage.” It’s a fan-film. This dude makes Fan Films, and that’s what this is, too. Calling it “test footage” is a good way for people who don’t know what his whole deal is to share it

looks pretty good as long as he doesn’t come back from Yale Law School and act like an insufferable condescending prick who looks down on his humble beginnings (but doesn’t look down on them enough to not make a buck off of them) before joining a cult whose leader would happily throw his family to the sharks for shits…

Well, it is kind of a thing. Not to say unauthorized biographies aren’t also a thing, because of course they are - but it really does seem like everyone is defaulting to “GIVE HIM A BIOPIC” as they mash the retweet/share button, as if there’s one already in pre-production just waiting to be handed over. But there…