It’s a minute and a half red carpet interview. It’s not 60 Minutes. 

What’s the problem? The show is full of phonies and the questions are mind-numbingly stupid. I’d have probably felt the same way. I appreciated his honesty.

Oof, that Vanity Fair moment hurt. To be fair, I’m not sure how many people have read the book or seen an onscreen version of it. Probably too niche a comment for the red carpet. 

He could have been a bit more gracious about it, but I really don’t get the uproar over this.  He was a bit grumpy with an interviewer asking some not brilliant questions.

She seemed... unprepared for the conversation she initiated. Sure, she arrived equipped with banal boilerplate statements and questions, but is it possible that she received uninteresting answers because she asked unprovocative questions?

This is who he is. I saw him treat Harvey Weinstein in just the same way many years ago. If the price we must pay as a society for his performance in Paddington 2 is having him be an asshole in real life then I say we turn a blind eye to it.

Oh, it’s not from Thackeray - it’s from where Thackeray got the title from: John Bunyan’s (“Oh, the guy with the big blue cow!” - Ashley Graham, probably) Pilgrim’s Progress.

It’s a frivolous exercise, he’s got a zillion good reasons to loathe the press (they hacked his phone and email), and the person he was talking to didn’t know anything about him.

Just watched this and I don’t see anything “cruel” about it.  He answered all her questions, they just were not the typical bullshit fluff answers is all.  In a way, it was probably one of the few honest and real life things to happen that entire night.

He’s a famously grumpy asshole and I adore it. For every hundred striving, grinning fame-thirsty academy members, we need at least one grumpy dick who knows it doesn’t really matter. He’s our Katharine Hepburn for now and I’ll take it.

He’s old. He’s tired. I get it.

This actually makes me like Hugh Grant a wee bit more. This seems like a reasonable reaction to being asked unsolicited questions on camera at an event I don’t really want to be attending, but am attending anyway because of press or reputation or some other obligation (i.e. my tailor needed the money).

This. Ellie didn’t consent, even if she did tell Joel she wanted to see it through earlier. Without full knowledge of what that means (ie: her death), she cannot make an informed choice or give consent. And like you, I wasn’t nearly confident enough in Marlene’s theory of the “cure” to sacrifice a child for it. (Plus,…

Does Joel go overboard in reclaiming Ellie: Yes.

The answers were at least as good as the questions.

Is it just me (don’t answer that) or is the AV Club really tactically reframing it’s coverage of, for want of a better word, “celebrities” in a way that feels insidious and like, pro-gossip rag?

And yet

I went and watched it last night. Within the first 3-4 minutes, I had to stop because one of my favorite comics ever had turned into a whiny bitch. Someone very rich who, outside of a slap, has never been targeted by any one in his career, complaining about cancel culture. Just absolutely ridiculous. I fast forward to…

Oh look.  It’s the woman’s fault.  Never saw that coming.  Shocked.  Shocked, I tell you.

Is anyone else not a fan of the cuts to the audience? It always feels a little forced to me, like the director feels the need to make absolutely sure we know that people are laughing.