I think that’s close. It’s more like culturally we prefer rags to riches stories of “midwest nobodies” who scrape and struggle to get noticed in show biz. It’s the whole stupid fucking American exceptionalism that we get drilled into us as kids. (And I don’t want to hear from any Adbusters anarchist dillholes that…

The first time I read a MAGA quote from him I was like, “Wait. Did they mean to write Randy?”

How do you measure success? Because I know who Joe Estevez is. Does that not imply a pretty impressive level of success?

Wow. They essentially admitted in there that what they really profit on in the theatrical experience is the *fucking junk food*.

Film prognostication is a fucking joke and I don’t understand why people like OP do it. Audiences are fickle. Who the fuck thought Everything Everywhere All at Once was going to make the kind of bank it did? Skinamarink was incredibly profitable and got a lot more asses in seats than I would have expected for what…

This is just a variation on the same old bullshit mentality executives have been relying on, and failing with, for decades.

Just gonna slightly push back on Hereditary. Without the back half I don’t love that movie as much as I do. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the uncertain “Is this all in her mind or is this a haunting” tension and the overall family drama tension of the first two acts. But that just makes it an effective…

Look, I’m just gonna be a semanticist about this. You closed with “Bizarre take”. No. It’s not “bizarre”. It may prove to be wrong in the end but that doesn’t constitute “bizarre”.

The weird culture warrior pearl-clutcher who thinks that not casting little people in a TV adaptation of a movie featuring little people is somehow a fucking reflection of “the current times”, which is very obviously a chickenshit way of not saying “PC cancel culture” or whatever buzzword bullshit they want to use,…

It’s incredible that you continue to breathe air despite obviously being from the late 1800s.

You’ll notice how much I emphasized that *I* am a Type II. I didn’t say shit about Type I and if you took that personally that’s YOUR problem. My POINT was that “disability” has a broad legal definition that doesn’t always comport with what we *think of* when we hear the word.

I don’t know that the gender of the writer is really relevant to the question of developing ideas in a script. Representation, gender-specific POV, female character development? Sure. But “meat on the bones” doesn’t feel like a thing women writers do any better or worse than men writers.

See, you say that but Skinamarink did very well and that thing was a feature length experimental arthouse installation. Longlegs at least seems, by the trailers, to have a reasonably followable story.

I know, it’s just so *silly* to try to do the right thing. This current climate of wanting to not be an exclusionary dickhole. Tsk. Such a shame.

I’m a type II diabetic. Technically speaking I am considered “disabled”. In any legal paperwork that asks for disability status they include diabetes.

“Oh no, I posted a poorly-conceived pithy rejoinder to a stated snarky point that countered the anecdotal fallacy of my complaint! Better accuse him of lacking empathy!”

Unless you are someone who thinks that conspiracies happen all the way up and down the line, even intraparty, I don’t understand the mentality of talking shit about the Democratic party machine and not Democratic party voters. There were primaries. It’s not like Biden was UNchallenged going in to 2020. And all the…

I think there’s a significant element of truth here. I think there are an awful lot of cinephiles of every stripe, including genre fandom, who aren’t rigorously critical of the material they watch and are happy to be impressed by impressive-seeming films. That said, a more generous (but no less annoyed) reading on my…

That’s sort of my point. Kravitz is acting like “pussy” is an unacceptable word in a movie title because society has a problem with the word “pussy”. I’m saying she’s being silly. Because they also wouldn’t let someone use the word “cockblocker”. Or “cock” generally. I’m a big fan of the TV show Kevin Can F- Himself.…

I think we are. It wasn’t entirely you, either. I took some shit from other commenters who apparently ALSO misunderstood what I was getting at and I rolled that into a ball of aggravation at everyone.