Chappell Roan is phenomenal and I’m so happy to see her finding success after lots of setbacks and toiling in obscurity for years.

Shame that the Beach Boys documentary isn’t more than a puff piece. Brian Wilson isn’t in the best of health right now so who knows how long he will be around to tell his story. 

Em’s been trying to offend people and then complaining about people trying to silence him for his entire career, especially in his Slim Shady persona which this is explicitly a return to / culmination of. Actually being shocked by any of it is just playing into his hands.

Going back to my youth, the Onion had a story that stuck with me headlined

Cruise is a loon but everyone he works with is highly complementary of his professionalism and how he treats people, so this isn’t entirely surprising.

I mean, dude BEEN a prick for decades now. 

Nailed it. This is how Furiosa works too. I saw it yesterday, and was perplexed by some of its aspects, until I realized that what we’re not seeing is objective truth, but a legend being related by another. The tell being when the History Man says he heard a certain detail directly from Furiosa herself. That’s a…

This is absolutely the way to look at it.

Here’s the two theories the fans posit:

The Tom Hardy re-casting doesn’t seem like something you need to account for, to the extent you really need to account for anything in this exercise. It’s a casting decision that exists outside the narrative — it has nothing to do with the timeline or overall arc of the movies. Mel Gibson was too old and...let’s say…

The easiest way to look at it is that each movie after the first one is a story told about Max by succeeding generations.  Road Warrior is framed as a memory of the Feral Kid, Thunderdome ends with Savannah telling the story, Fury Road ends with a quote from the History Man as if we’ve been told a piece of “history,”…

It was pretty obvious that for the first three films Miller was riffing a slightly new take with each movie and could not give a flying fuck about canon and continuty and all that bullshit which audiences at the time also could not have cared less about. They’re just movies. It’s all make-believe. Fiction doesn’t have…

Did you ever see “The Little Foxes”? The depth of a character’s odiousness is demonstrated perfectly when he steps on the train of his mother’s dress, glances down at his foot then at her face, then blithely goes on with what he’s doing. It’s shocking, and you instantly know he’s AWFUL - I think of that moment…

It’s a shame that his legacy will always be Supersize Me, a flawed documentary that I never cared for. His real strength was his TV series, 30 Days and Inside Man, which really explored compelling corners of life with an empathetic eye.

Olympic athletes fucking love McNuggets.

I don’t think it had anything to do with whether the usher knew who she was? Rowland just didn’t like being physically pushed and didn’t like being touched by strangers, which is a fair boundary to have.  Of course I can’t find a video of what actually happened, just a bunch of slo-mo cut with stills.

Yep. This was rubber dinosaurs at IRL Jurassic Park prices. Really GOOD rubber dinosaurs, but still.

I wanna be snarky but, minus the LARPing elements, the hotel sounds like something I would’ve dreamed of and loved to go to as a kid. I haven’t watched the video yet so I can’t speak to where Disney cut corners, but I suspect that child me wouldn’t have cared. If the hotel had been priced at least somewhat affordably…

My theory has been that the hotel failed because its target customers — well off tech bros who love Star Wars — were disproportionately likely to find the in-person roleplaying elements to be deeply socially uncomfortable.

One of the many highlights: the hotel rooms, for a thousands of dollars per day experience, did not provide fully-paid Disney+ access.