300 was originally written by Frank Miller, who is sometimes an idiot and had weird messaging but who also wrote some interesting stories and was a real writer. Sucker Punch was written by Zack Snyder and a guy who otherwise had worked as like a cameraman or grip

I’d love to see a film crit example of Sucker Punch vs Spring Breakers because it’s interesting how they both have a similar aim of “sexy story about sexy girls and explosions but also deep y’know?”. I enjoyed Spring Breakers and even found some parts moving but couldn’t even get through Sucker Punch in a “it’s…

I think the main issue is that he has this auteur thing where he has so much creative control over things, but his control results in things that are just off-putting. If he would occasionally do films where he was mostly workmanlike and less Ayn Rand then he’d be another Michael Bay or Joel Schumacher. From all…

It just reminds me of like middle school, worst of my self esteem me but just caught in a never ending cycle of self pity self hate and poor decisions, like a self loathing ouroboros. It’s fascinating but probably unhealthy to watch. He’s so lonely and yet has so many kids he’s neglecting. I feel vague pity and…

I mean we also have unlimited access to the lives of celebrities. I’m sure that the people in our neighborhoods suck in their own way too. Some of them probably go to public restrooms and don’t wash their hands. The trash collectors and construction workers that support our society probably also sometimes vote for…

Yeah- I try to just keep in mind that I don’t really know any celebrities even if I consume their work and what they put out socially. They’re more or less a stranger and we’ll never truly know who’s really “good” (evil is a bit easier to find out and decide for yourself). And I always try to keep in mind that people…

Yeah plus Lizzo’s is a lot more involving her directly, some of Ellen’s stuff was with other people managing the show and then you get in the tricky situation of how much the two had to do with one another or interactions that were unfortunate in retrospect. Whereas “tried to get an employee to eat a banana from a sex…

Yeah I would imagine any competitive game event would need to have ways to make sure mods aren’t in use- it would be similar to consistent testing for performance enhancing drugs and betting. Otherwise how can you have any faith in the results of the tournament? Since it’s tech I feel like it should be easier here…

I don’t really care what kind of mods a person wants to use, but the host should still get basically a lifetime ban- it seems like a basic part of hosting should be making sure no mods are present. What if you impacted performance or gave someone a hidden edge? Having it be a porn related thing doesn’t make the basic…

I think the producing is part of the problem bc part of the problem is the lack of communication of cohesive world building- that’s stuff like making it easy to tell the different locations apart and making it easier to tell which fantasy dude is which. In a show like this that’s so many different elements like how…

Yeah I’d imagine if they were trying to go by a certain age range, people of color tend to get ‘old’ faster than white people in America due to societal factors (I’m sure systemic racism and medical racism isn’t easy on the body) and class. You can see the difference if you go to an upscale nursing home vs a cheaper…

I couldn’t find it there but did find that she threw a pool party (?!) after murdering the estranged husband. I really think she was a sociopath that found another sociopath

Hadn’t heard about the dancing room- where did you hear that? But yeah she was in Mrs. Texas pageants and Wheel of Fortune. She only killed the one husband but I think that’s bad enough. Her mother told this ‘cute’ anecdote about how she was on the church softball league that her mother coached and how she’d “never…

Yeah I’m not sure I would have picked that photo of her with an older kid- is that even a child she has custody of? It paints maybe too generous a portrait of someone who’s already lost custody multiple times. Addiction is a disease but growing up the child of an addict can be dangerous and very unpleasant

Wasn’t he the one where the rest of the cast celebrated when he was temporarily killed off because he was a jerk?

Having watched a couple things covering her, I’m still not 100% on her precise malfunction. She seemed pretty clearheaded about everything she did, I’m not sure ‘deluded’ really works, I think she’s someone who spent their whole life being told they were amazing especially since she was pretty. Her mother would always…

The “tight” part is much grosser than the Barbie nickname. If he was less gross a guy it could come across as a cute nickname but apparently he is a jerk in other ways too

Yup driver assists can be nice and useful (I also get an alert if I have to stop hard to avoid an accident or if it spots something in the backup camera and it also lowers itself while turning to make it smooth)- other manufacturers seem to be focusing on that which makes more sense. The focus on level 4 and 5 doesn’t…

Definitely- being able to slow and pull over for emergencies is pretty much the only good extra thing they could do right now. Overall, I think we’d be better off focusing our resources on how to design ways drivers can deal with increasingly flooded roads than “maybe a computer could be better at driving than a…

The problem is that then it also has to be aware of when it’s over its head which is tricky, plenty of people don’t know what point that is and the human driver will get distracted if they mostly aren’t driving so they would have to be notified with a lot of time to get back in driving mode. Right now we have maybe…