I did the same and there is a cat in the back of the first police car! But sadly, the car is driven by a human man.

Yeah. I too have the feeling at times that he’s trying to recreate his previous success more than innovate or challenge himself. Though he made Big Eyes, which wasn’t totally like anything he’d done before, and that one didn’t work either.

I thought he showed some range in his limited screen time in Ladybird. That character was very unlike his characters in Little Women and Call Me By Your Name. Though I do agree with you that it’s not unfair to pull a Bill Simmons “Are we sure he’s good?” Lucas Hedges, to name another Ladybird costar and contemporary,…

Interesting. I hadn’t really considered how young millennials and gen-zers would look at both of them. If you’ve grown up with both directors, it does really change the calculus.

You’re not wrong, but I’d say Noah Baumbach is more of the modern Woody Allen than Wes Anderson is.

I’m a white male New Yorker around 40

15 years is a little low in my estimation. The last Burton film I enjoyed was Big Fish in 2003. But I think we forget how good he was before his work fell off of a cliff. His two Edward movies, Wood and Scissorhands are both all-time classics and Beetlejuice, Mars Attacks, Batman, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, and The…

On a side note, I’m totally down for continued Timothée and Saoirse collaborations. At least one new movie featuring the two of them every year please.

Better career: Wes Anderson or Tim Burton?

I think it’ll be like anything else. Certain films will transcend and be talked about. Others will be forgotten. 

It’s definitely a similar look. Hip-hop culture has become mainstream culture at this point though.

I would argue that old people being appalled by young people’s clothing choices is a tradition that goes back a lot further and is almost infinitely less harmful.

You mean metaphorical country? Because they’re both American. Though I thought Billie was from the UK for some reason until recently. Maybe the name?

Absolutely. She’s very intentional in her choices and wears what she wears, in part, to attract attention. I just feel like she could do it in a way that was more stylish. But what do I know? I’m certainly no fashion-plate.

I mean, yeah. That’s true. I’m sure Billie Eilish doesn’t care what I wear and as someone who was already old when The Babadook came out in her long ago youth, she probably shouldn’t. I’m just a guy who made a silly joke on a silly article about a singer’s silly clothing. I’m not the one making this into a serious…

I get that. But that only explains the clothes being baggy. It doesn’t explain them being garish and ugly. She’s clearly trying to attract attention with her clothing choices, even if it’s not sexual attention. Some people love it, I’m sure. I happen to be a person who does not. And that’s all okay. We can all…

I already addressed that in my initial comment. The fact that her clothes are more loose fitting than some people would wear isn’t the issue. The issue (which isn’t actually an issue at all but just my opinion) is that her clothes are super ugly and trashy looking. I’m not “concern-trolling” about anything and I’m…

I don’t mind some level of that, but there is definitely a point where it feels excessive.

This is a bad take. She’s a public figure at a public event posing for pictures on a red carpet and intentionally wearing things that she knows will attract attention. I’m not commenting on her figure or her weight or asking her to show more skin. And I’m not saying that her clothing choices should have anything to do…

I don’t mind an article letting me know about some funny tweets I may have seen, but it’s super weird when they tell us what the tweets say before embedding them. I’m also not a fan of posting a video and describing what happens in the video in detail afterwards.