YES, 1000%

Maximus is a prime example of what Jonathan Nolan has a tendency to do that annoys me. What was the narrative benefit of making the audience doubt him all season? Why not just reveal the truth about Dane in the same episode or the one immediately after? Maybe it creates some tension for the viewer because we don’t…

Surely there must be a male equivalent to Olivia Colman. Perhaps Berry is it.

They talk about that a little bit in the How Did This Get Made episode about the remake.

I’m *mostly* on board, but I’m having doubts about his characterization that come from what I think is a Jonathan Nolan problem (sorry, to be accurate to my feelings on it, a fucking Jonathan fucking Nolan fucking problem) of holding back vital character information from the audience that ultimately might not amount…

It’s all subjective and who are you or I to draw some arbitrary line to determine what is or isn’t frivolous? Should we treat ethics and the legal system like a fucking white elephant party where there’s a money limit to whether or not we give a shit? Or a limit to how much time someone spent on a faulty product?

Fair. And I’m sure that’s where the class action had hoped to go. But part of the problem, IMO, is that far too many people look at something like this with the appeal to tradition shit I mentioned. Like we can all shrug and say “That’s how movie trailers work.” But is that how they *should* work? And if not, why not…

I don’t think they will respond at all, really. My comment has a lot less to do with expectations for a change in policy than it does a general frustration with the way the industry works and my own aggravation with people who can’t seem to see past the appeal to tradition when it comes to the industry. This is just…

Just to be clear because it’s kind of buried in the article’s snark and the admittedly humorous aftermath: the actual merit of the initial claim stands. One of the plaintiffs was an idiot after the fact and there weren’t grounds for a class action. But the first judge agreed that what happened with that trailer WAS…

Nah.

If only I had student evaluations and recommendation letters and faculty peer reviews to support my contention that I don’t treat students the way I treat internet randos...

You’re free to believe or not believe whatever you want. But I find it pretty consistent with my biggest issue with you over many interactions and readings of your responses on these sites, which is a complete inability to perceive outside of your own sense of self. Because you don’t believe that I’m different with…

The two are not mutually exclusive.

This is not the first time and you’re not the first person to make the weird mistake of thinking that I interact with students the same way I interact with you, a random idiot I don’t like on the internet.

I actually do plan to see MaXXXine, though probably not in a theater. I watched X in a theater and Pearl on streaming. I liked X a lot and while I didn’t think Pearl added anything substantive to the story/character I did think it was a well made movie. I think it might be West’s best, at least aesthetically.

I have and will fully admit that it’s not a generous reading of the text. That said, I think it’s entirely fair to suggest that IF West had more on his mind than simply exploiting our discomfort he did a faulty job of it. Which I don’t think is all that harsh or unfair a criticism. Scorsese insists to this day that…

Oh, I dunno. Wordplay seems pretty civilized to me. Granted, it was vulgar wordplay. But still...

Tell you what, I’ll grab a dictionary and you can grab a thesaurus. Unless you just want to keep replying “attitude adjustment” at me?

Yeah, it’s especially sad/annoying re: Haywire because of how much I love that audio mix. I love the minimal foley and no score during the fight scenes. The fact that they had to ADR the shit out of it for dialogue... ugh.

I get that you have a bug up your ass about education. Maybe go get a fucking enema.