But as the article explains, the Oscars have different criteria than just “the narrative”, and this is far, far from unprecedented.

No he did not have a ghost, he is just fantastically over-imaginative.  Which is what made him so successful, but there were no actual ghosts.

Name the comic that Joker was adapted from. And yet, its nomination was for adapted screenplay. See how easy and even obvious that is?

I don’t understand why this is even controversial. It’s an adaptation of something that already existed before Gerwig sat down to write it. She used several characters that previously existed she did not create. It’s an adaptation.

“Bottom text”! Classic!

You’re choosing to come here.

I guess I don’t really understand what “making sure the jokes are aimed at the right people” means, but I find John Mulaney funny and Gervais...not.

The thing about fuckers like Gervais, Chapelle, John Cleese, Rob Schneider, Tim Allen, and others that are always spouting this bullshit about “cancel culture” and “wokeness”, is that their whole schtick is “We should be allowed to joke and mock anything, everything, all the things, without limits”. And then they the…

Ah. Shame on me.

And there it is. I saw a number of people earlier this year predict that Zaslav’s goal was to make WBD more appealing for a merger of some kind.

There’s a not-0% chance your wife is following her too.

She was pretty good as a kid in Panic Room and I think Adventureland was the best movie/performance I’ve seen from her. (And I’d add a deep cut: Certain Women, a film with three distinct segments and the one with Stewart and Lily Gladstone was easily the highlight). Pretty much everything else I’ve seen from her,…

It’s funny that you mention Only God Forgives, since I was getting a Drive vibe from the trailer. That may just be a more optimistic way of saying the same thing.

I’m sure it’s the music and the neon but I’m getting vibes of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive from the trailer. I mean that as a compliment.

I would’ve gone for William Jackson Harper, personally. 

You people are all my favorites. Keep carrying that torch.

Cast Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Kang. It seemed they were leading into her being a Kang variant with the Loki S2 plotline anyway.

Nobody cares about The High Evolutionary outside of Guardians vol. 3. Just recast Kang with Chukwudi Iwuji and either say High Evolutionary was a variant or ignore it entirely.

I got a Community notification for this?!

Phases 4 and 5 will hereon in be referred to as the “gas leak phases”