I stay subscribed to Netflix for the same reason, but HBO has too many naughty bits and swear words for my parents, so they’re scared of it.

Wasn’t Amazon only “in the red” as an accounting trick to avoid taxes though? I’m pretty sure they were making massive profits, but they were investing those profits back into the company to make it look like they were not breaking even. College athletics programs do the same thing.

Because they didn’t have the rights to the X-Men and they thought it could be the next best thing.

You mean when the NWO split into two different factions and two thirds of the roster was either in one or the other? Yeah... That was not great in retrospect.

I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment, but there’s a big difference between some rando on Twitter and a well-known actor on one of the most popular podcasts.

You guessed incorrectly on most of that. While it’s far from a fun, lighthearted movie, it’s not as depressing as your version would be. I found it to be far less dour and dark than The Piano. Though that’s a low bar I realize.

I don’t think you were supposed to be shocked that the characters are gay. They pretty much give that fact away in the trailer.

I’m less concerned with your bad opinion and more with the fact that you think The Sisters Brothers came out last year and First Cow was called Cow. I didn’t really care for the former and liked the latter quite a bit, but I don’t see how either has much relation to The Power of the Dog beyond the setting.

Sweet birthday baby...

They finally made a movie for said fatalists and those outside that demographic are baffled why the movie resonates with so many people.

What movie did you watch? Don’t Look Up is exactly a film that strokes you softly on the head and tells you that you’re one of the good ones. That’s one of the things people are referring to when they call it “smug.” The message is very much “We all get it, but those ignorant hicks are too busy obsessing over…

Sanders bought a modest lake house for vacations with his family using money that came from his wife selling a family home she inherited. He’s also 80-years-old, so it’s normal to have accumulated some wealth after a lifetime of working. That’s orders of magnitude different from a 30-year-old twitch streamer with no…

Do you honestly believe that $3 million is the price you have to pay to own a decent home in all of Los Angeles? The median home price in Los Angeles County is $795,000. Which is a lot for sure, but it’s not $3 million. He could have spent half of what he actually spent and still live in the same city. But he wanted…

That’s not a very good metric for whether a film is good or not. I’m not big on rewatching films even if I love them. But I’ve already offered to watch The Hand of God with my wife since she missed it when I saw it. I wanted to watch The French Dispatch again immediately after seeing it because it has so many…

Maybe you should watch more movies. There were a lot of great ones that were released this past year.

People get the point. They just don’t like the movie. The fact that people like you and the makers of the film seem to think that’s impossible is really ridiculous.

This is exactly the kind of smug, holier than now bullshit that’s making people hate the film even more. I’m definitely not one of the people the film is making fun of. I believe in climate change. I’m not in the media in any way. And I found it to be an unfunny, unoriginal slog. So congratulations. You’ve met one.

I guess I’m a fake person. I always suspected it, but it sucks to find out this way.

Elgort was the biggest issue I had with West Side Story. I loved all the restagings. I really liked all the other actors, particularly Faist and DeBose. But even putting the MeToo allegations aside, Elgort was a big dull lump at the center. It’s still a four star film and comfortably in my top 20 of the year, but…

Good list. My ranking is a little different, but I had many of the same thoughts about the individual films.