Yeah. You 100% completely entirely miss the point of movies belonging to different genres, one having a broader, more conventional appeal than the other.

Sergio Leone’s strategy was to make him re-do a scene a trillion times to wear him down. Only when utterly exhausted he was performing a bit believably.

I don’t think Guardians of the Galaxy was any different from Star Wars (and its giant growling sentient carpet). It’s standard space opera adventures, that is, Indiana Jones with planets instead of countries. Even though it starts (inconsistently) touching omnipotent sentient planets near the end.

I don’t think it’s related to film qualities. DC movies are quite bad, but they’re still somewhat basic, a handful of superpowered superheroes superpunching supermonsters. It goes wham and it goes boom and it goes the end. What I expect is the multiverse plots of the MCU, as well as increasingly weird supergalactic…

I believe the universality of Marvel is coming to an end. Multiverses won’t appeal to the public that enjoyed Iron Man as the story of a rich dude buying a gadget to fight baddies. It’s now veering towards the ridiculousness of the comic’s overly bloated world.

Should be cancelled. it just cannot fulfill any function anymore. Between those who want it to evaluate movies, those who want it to evaluate the morality of artists’ pasts, those who want it to prove they are not evaluating the morality of artists’s past, whatever it does it will be doomed, suspect, and meaningless.…

Will it come out before or after the muppets special ?

That’s not reasonable.

Godzilla vs King Kong vs Jaegers ? That would be in danger of making much too sense. We need an EVA in there.

Yeah, I’m just confused by Star Wars, of all things (with, you know, Leia, Lando, and even indifferent species diversity), becoming the hill on which white supremacists go die. I was wondering if there was something inherent to Star Wars, explaining it.

I think that “displaying a progressive ideology in a popular movie” and “not firing an actor even though they’re conservative” work at very different levels, and balancing one to the other is unfair. You wouldn’t have wanted the opposite. If the movie was clearly reactionary, but the studio didn’t fire an actor for…

Maybe the Pro Wrestling angle is a key to that. We really don’t have that in Europe, it’s really very strange, seen from here, this fake fight spectacle with recurring characters and blurred lines around make believes contour. So maybe, related to this, we separate actors from roles to a much bigger extent ?

The thing is, I really don’t get this “we” and “our”.

I agree with most of this, barring a few details.

The last episode ? I’m confused. You speak of season 7 ? Out of 13 ?

My greek grandmother died with dementia when I was a kid. You can imagine which scenes strike a nerve. The actress who plays Karras’ mother is terrific.

I’m more nuanced than you on whether assholes are humans. I believe in inhumanity. That is, in the double movement of dehumanization (considering your target as subhuman, and, as such, losing your own humanity). It’s a bit of a paradoxical domino row, because it makes me lose in turn my own humanity. But I keep double…

Yeah I was a bit taken aback by “that’s not creepy, that’s capitalism”. But I know what you mean.

Oh the things you can justify with broad populist feelgood statements just as “we are just calling for bigotry to end”. You spare yourself any question about the limit of “tolerable” bigotry (cultural beliefs, family background, collective history, ignorance - you basically condemn all those without an anthropology…

I mean the job is irrelevant “to” the fault. That’s the question that legitimizes firing a person or not. I’m against firing a plumber because of his opinions. I’m all for firing a teacher, or a cop, because of his opinions. And I put an actor in the plumber category. And this is the sort of relevancy that should be…