Do you have Redbox? They have it there, along with any number of new art films. I love Redbox.

Yes, Ratchet & Clank! Yes, Mighty No. 9! These were both games I intended on buying. Now, I have them, or almost have them.

“. . . the finest big-screen interpretation of Dracula,”

And by “wrong,” I mean “slightly rude and unconsciously so.” If the restaurant industry is so reactive that this gets you “garbage” as your thumbnail, then god, what have we done to make it such a Puritan shitfest that we have to clench ourselves to even go into?

I mean, come on, if you’re asking for all this compassion, can we have some compassion for people who don’t even know what they’re doing wrong?

“Garbage” seems a little rude for people who were late, maybe stayed later than they should have, and had a bad idea of tipping (or a different one, than you have). It’s all rude behavior, of course, but it’s not crazy, and I think it’s kind of crazy how we have to tip-toe around waitresses, or at least how there’s…

Or good and great, in general.

It’s the difference between very good and great, between the sum of its parts and greater than it. Greatness is a thing I think a lot of people don’t know, or don’t see.

It’s not entirely irrelevant to conversation about great art and what makes great art. Lady Bird, The Florida Project, and Phantom Thread are much closer to—they begin to be in the same realm as—Aguirre, the Wrath of God or Apocalpyse Now, although I don’t refer to them because I’m not talking about what almost gets…

Well, art is eternal, in that the value of it does not change with the tides of public opinion or even form. There is something that The Wire has that Get Out does not. Want a movie? Okay, Phantom Thread, though I would say that is not as good as The Wire.

I see that it might be, but whomever you are, whatever your color, if you say Get Out was a great movie on par with something like Aguirre, the Wrath of God or Apocalpyse Now, I say you are wrong.

I don’t hold Split up to be that, I just said it is an interesting movie. Get Out does not have the same depth as Phantom Thread, as the piercing nature of Moonlight. There is depth in it, but would you hold it up against something like Death of a Salesman or something more recent, like, say, The Wire, and say that…

But I’m not saying it was nominated for politics in that sense. You can have political art that is not lacking in emotional depth. Get Out is not deep in nearly the same way Phantom Thread is, The Lost City of Z. There is something called emotional depth (I’m saying that not to be condescending but to lay out a…

I agree that there’s something there, to it. You could say the same for Split, or etc. But you could have a very average movie that is very thought-provoking and political, very satirical or otherwise. I think many good things are not deserving of “best movie of the year,” or greatness-status.

Not that Stanley Kubrick is a barometer for everything that’s good, but you know.

I do get what you’re saying, and I haven’t seen either of those, so I couldn’t put it that I didn’t like those (either, for Best Picture), but I thought to put those, because those are clearly political picks. I just feel like the strength of this, as a whole, is not nearly the strength of half the other good movies…

Okay, I appreciate your response. It was good; if you really thought, in a deep way, it was the best movie of the year (or deserves to be up for it), then go you. I just don’t want to nominate a movie without looking at what’s really, deeply good about it, and I just think, in a deep, Stanley Kubrick sense, there are…

Oh, the second comment. You should have edited it into the first comment.

Thank you, that’s a reasonable comment. Yes, there are levels to Get Out that are good, and it has a lot to say, with a lot of interesting ways. Whether all that elevates the movie itself, as a whole, to the level of frontrunner for the best movie of the year is another matter, but I like your opinion, in breaking it…

So you don’t think American Made, Logan Lucky, Atomic Blonde, John Wick 2, and The Florida Project, and A Ghost Story, are good? I would love to see your list.