Bourne Ultimatum helped popularize shakey cam so the audience thinks they’re right there. Greengrass also made sure to include static shots and clear geography so you can both feel empathy and confused in the situation while also knowing what’s going on. Audience confusion is not the same thing as character confusion.

It’s so weird how we’ve had night scenes in movies and tv shows for decades without this same problem.

I also went to a small liberal arts college, ~1500 students total though in the NW. Maybe because I was an introvert/dealing with gayness+conservative background, but that’s still a fuck ton of people to know or even be aware of on campus. Then once you got past your general credits and going more deeply into your…

“Lets make the writing/villain in this tv show shitty on the off chance we do a prequel in the future” is not a good move in my view.

If you require tons of fan theories to explain what happened, you might have some poor writing problems. Still wish the Night King had like any sort of motivation we knew about other than “destroying history”. I don’t plan on reading the new books (if they ever come out), but I’ll make an exception for anything to…

Nope, because it was fucking cut out of the movie, which is the whole entire issue.
http://collider.com/thor-ragnarok-valkyrie-bisexual-scene-cut-taika-waititi/

`Russo told Deadline that he and his brother, co-director Anthony Russo, included the gay character because they understand the importance of representation. “It was important to us as we did four of these films, we wanted a gay character somewhere in them,” he explained. “We felt it was important that one of us play…

I like how you ignore the whole Black Widow part that undermines your complaint.

See also having a nameless man in therapy talk about his gay date and not allowing Valkyrie to kiss a girl. Insert NotLikeThis.gif

And it helped highlight just how far the Republicans bad faith readings of anything will go. Calling that smokey eye joke misogynist was some bullshit. And we still have major journalists falling for this, e.g., Ilhan’s “anti-Semitic” tweets.

Gotta maintain that Accessssssss. Who cares that the access lies all the time, and their jobs as journalists are now that spreading misinformation because they won’t call lies lies.

Avengers spoilers.


The soul stone is dumb and baldly emotional manipulating. Black Widow was treated so dirty. Dies and then is basically forgotten. And then they have all the female characters come together in a line in the final battle in a pretty pandering way, especially coming on the heels of BW’s death.

The movie…

Not nice 

There’s a difference between drawing a saying like “not today, Satan”, which in itself isn’t a joke, and wholly taking an entire punchline without any form of repurposing or recontextualization which is what the Level 4 vegan is.

And she loves crosswords, and her (co-authored) 4/2/2019 puzzle in the NYT this year was also pretty good.

Yes, it’s a common title, but interesting that this article has the same title as Film Critic Hulk’s massive essay about RDR2 + game mechanic design + “realism” vs immersion + narrative structure + character design: https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/22/18298277/red-dead-redemption-2-review-rdr2-story-design-criticism

Yep, sounds about right (even without knowing the actual spoilers). RPDR always has 1) music video, 2) snatch game, 3) reading minichallenge, 4) makeover (and of course requisite acting + improv + dance + unconventional materials). Since we haven’t had 1 and 4 yet, those are still coming.

I definitely agree about having a better runway would have helped (lack of wings was a MAJOR oversight; if she had had like bloody stumps as wings because someone pulled them off, that’d be cool. But nothing at all? Wut?). Stubborn and is a much more apt descriptor.

Good thing Go Fug Yourself ALSO does men’s looks!

Silky’s won two maxi challenges (tied with Brook Lynn for the most right now). Why would she need to “step it up further” when what she’s doing now has given her wins and kept her from lipsyncing? This isn’t some middling contestant who’s been safe and without wins under her belts. And yeaaaah while not putting on…