He’s one of those weird pseudo-progressives who will happily admit to the reality of crimes perpetrated on the indigenous by white settlers while still glorifying those settlers. He’s not shy about his support for the indigenous community but like you say about the casting sheet, that support seems a *liiiiiiittle*…
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It’s the platonic ideal of a pretentious dipshit fanboy’s favorite movie. I don’t know which movie poster would be worse to find on a dude’s wall: Fight Club, TDK, or Boondock Saints. Honorable mention: Scarface.
I didn’t get the impression of in on the joke so much as lazy. It felt to me like he set up a Cade sequel in Twisted Pair and then realized that he didn’t actually want to *make* a sequel but felt obligated. Yeah, actually, I think “lazy” isn’t quite the right word. I think “obligatory” is more correct. You can kind…
Abso-fucking-lutely not. It’s not even as good as its predecessor.
TDK is a goddam mess of half-baked Ethics 101 thought experiments shoved into a self-serious crime drama masquerading as a comic book movie that mostly gets by on some incredibly solid performances. I absolutely loathe the ham-fisted bullshit dialogue in that thing. Every other line is a fucking inspirational poster…
He said, offering no follow-up.
The ads that have been playing all over TV and YouTube drive me nuts with the insipid expansionist American exceptionalism bullshit. I just want to see Kaniehtiio Horn as Deer Woman shiv the asshole.
It’s too bad that Breen is so much more litigious than James Nguyen. I’d love to get a Rifftrax of any of his stuff but I know the fellas avoid him for legal reasons.
Maybe he owns a Chris Steakhouse?
I sometimes struggle with SBIG. I like them more than Red Letter Media, who I’ve come to really dislike (Rich is the goddam worst but they’re all kinda awful in their own way), but I’m a pretty leftist dude and the SBIG crew can be... not that. I was frankly kind of floored when they did Ben & Arthur (though…
That’s a really great, fair point. Upstart Crow is satirizing britcoms while engaging in those beats. It doesn’t really want you to think those plots are *good*, and in fact their ridiculousness is part of the point. (And given some of our modern understanding of Willy Shakes as a cheap populist with an outsized…
No, because she’s talking about him like nobody ever questioned his talent despite his family connection and yes, they did. Clooney’s family connection was a topic of discussion 30 years ago. She’s framing it like “Why isn’t anyone talking about George Clooney being a nepo baby?” and the answer is “Because we did that…
Yeah, imagine being frustrated by the lack of opportunities in a labor situation because of nepotism in employment!
THE FLAGON WITH THE DRAGON, MOTHERFUCKER! SAY IT!
They can bristle all they want, at the end of the day who gives a shit what some nobody online or working for Variety says about them? It’s such a weird position to be like “I got where I am because of my talent! Now don’t suggest anything otherwise because if you do then it might make people doubt my talent!” Either…
Starring Daniel “Tool” Bernhardt!
Well now I’m curious about the possessive apostrophe.
But the actual text of what she says is very much about the conversation NOW. And it’s sort of funny that she’s like “Nobody talks about George Clooney being a nepo baby” when yes, Emma, they DID. Back before you were born. They don’t talk about it now because that conversation has already happened. Clooney is a weird…
That’s totally fair! And frequently something I either think or actually say in those conversations. I tend to be pretty “meh, whatever” about the subject. Right up until someone who is accused of nepotism gets defensive and snarky about it. It’s why I appreciate Williams or Hawke shrugging the whole thing off…
FWIW, this reminds me of a tangential complaint that I like to drag out because... well, I’m an ornery dick about it honestly. But I deeply dislike positive spin interpretations of the end of Robert Eggers’ The Witch. Thomasin might have disliked the yoke of religion but she was 100% a believer. She doesn’t like how…