I saw this over on Bloody Disgusting. He’s so good in Dawn at riding that “hero/dickhead” line.

Unpopular opinion around nerd culture websites. But I agree with you. I have never liked fully produced fan stuff. And there’s a LOT more of it now than there used to be. And for some fans to even suggest that they’re being woefully unoriginal is like being the Fun Police. I don’t think it makes anyone “look like an…

I miss my Wabbit of Seville gif.

I love Anderson for the most part but you are not wrong. He does his thing and he does it well but that thing doesn’t always work. I find that more true in the latter films of his career than the earlier when he had Owen Wilson chipping in on script. I think he’s a more fruitful collaborator for Anderson than Roman…

Well that’s a lot of pity since I’ve been a professional story analyst for over 15 years and teaching screenwriting for around 6.

RIGHT??? What a jagoff.

I didn’t have to read it, no. But I do have to read scripts by young screenwriters who may be influenced by that bullshit and who may decide that if HE can do it, so can they. And no, they can’t. Because he shouldn’t have either. He’s the director so it doesn’t particularly matter if the script is a bunch of twee…

Well sure. But they have to be using *some* rationale for it. I have a general impression that it’s a bit of a subjective popularity thing but surely anyone who takes it even a little bit seriously has to have a rubric of some kind. When I think of “directing” I largely think of visualization and performance. Whereas…

My complaint is very specific. According to interviews about the script he wrote all the scene and action description in first-person POV, which is the most fucking aggravating thing I have ever heard about a screenplay.

I mean.... okay? That’s fine that you do that but maybe back off a bit on the “nobody should ever remotely” hyperbole.

Man, FUCK Nolan getting a nom for adapted screenplay. His dumb first person scene description bullshit should be disqualifying for any kind of fucking writing awards.

Not to get all whataboutist on you but the fact that Nolan got a fucking screenplay nod is also DUMB.

I’m not saying one way or the other re: Gerwig as I’ve never quite understood what standards the awards use to determine these noms. But I will say that the qualities of the movie you’re discussing seem much more in line with the screenwriting as opposed to the directing. I totally agree with your assessment but it…

Not sure why you think those are incompatible positions. People can contribute positively to society and also be terrible. Utilitarian much?

If Barsanti was a woman the bile would probably be so much worse. Maybe there would be less of it because some of the people who shit on him constantly don’t strike me as misogynists so much as weirdos with an axe to grind against NuAVClub who have chosen him as their scapegoat, but still.

You seem to be conflating the existence of sex with talking about it. Is the chess anal beads story actually ABOUT sex at all? No. It is not.

I’m on your side here but *please* knock it the fuck off with the “kid” shit. It’s cheap dismissal.

I misread “that” as “this”.

For sure they have had their share of material I liked. And there are things I will miss out on like the last season of Stranger Things and the second season of The Sandman. And for some stupid reason they’re the only place Noah Baumbach seems to like for distribution.

Yeah, I think how you feel about your job affects this greatly. My buddy obviously does not love his work. It’s corporate IT with more project oversight than he would like. But he lives in the Boston area so a corporate IT salary is helpful.