Curious whether you watch other movies about dark, depressing subjects. No judgement either way. I just find it somewhat odd that people who presumably watch other serious films about other weighty topics are noping out of this one sight unseen. I’ve personally been putting off watching Irreversible because I’ve heard…

It is quite telling that you clearly read the critic’s score for Gladiator and decided not to mention it.

Gladiator rules and your opinion is bad. It has great performances, great action setpieces, and immaculate visuals. Your supposed consensus isn’t a consensus at all. Just lame contrarian backlash to anything that gets popular. It has 4.0 on Letterboxd, an 8.5 on IMDB, and an 87% Rotten Tomatoes audience score, so the…

not exploring why any of the other POVs exist aside from the most facile way

It’s not really 2+ hours of intense focus on rape.

Matchstick Men is great.

Oh come on... I’m an MCU defender and even I think that’s a ludicrous statement.

Interesting. Thanks. 

Being “in transition” is a temporary part of a trans existence.

That’s not really the same though. Pregnant actors aren’t a minority group that’s being denied roles. If pre or early transition trans people can’t even hope to be offered roles specifically written about such a character because studio heads will say that it’s too hard to find them or they’re not good enough to play…

But that’s the same excuse that people have used for decades to avoid casting people in roles that are appropriate for them. Fill in any minority group—black, asian, gay, disabled, etc.—and people in Hollywood have claimed at one time or another than the pool was too small to find someone talented enough for the role.…

That’s what I’m asking though. Would that pool be vanishingly small? I haven’t seen any numbers on it, but just from my social circle, it seems like gender transitioning is becoming a lot more common lately as it’s becoming more socially accepted and there are more available gender affirming therapists. Unless there’s…

or pre-transition trans woman, but that’ll be a difficult one

As if he needs an excuse.

I’m happy for her, but I hate that this will probably encourage other fans to get overly obsessed with the personal lives of their favorite celebrities. Not that they’re not doing it anyway, but now they’ll be able more easily convince themselves that they’re actually helping.

I agree with you that young people likely don’t know how big of a star Eddie Murphy was in his heyday, which is part of what I meant by my previous comment. And that could color the way people view his new projects. But I doubt that people are going back and negatively rating his old movies without having watched them…

That’s the one.

if audiences like (or, at very least, tolerate) Adam Sandler movies more, why do his fail to make back their budget more often than Eddie Murphy?

Turns out that none of them are related to the Muppet magician.

In other news, the long defunct Ben Folds Five have reunited to release a statement apologizing for having five in their name despite the fact that there’s only three of them. Said front man Ben Folds, “I’m very sorry to any five piece bands who we may have offended by our poorly chosen name. Thank you for educating…