[Ugh crashes car while masturbating.]

The cast of Empire’s batting average in making accusations of racism is not great.

Are we sure he fell asleep? Maybe he got fixated on thinking about how he was filming a show where characters time traveled to try to save Martin Luther King’s life, and had some kind of mental break.

I think the data we have challenges your argument, at least when it comes to this movie.

A $90 million budget, with a $40 million for marketing, is a huge amount of money to spend on a musical The Color Purple remake that does not have Spielberg behind the camera or someone like Oprah in front of it. Barbie’s not a meaningful comparison here. It’s also puzzling how the author says that the movie has done “…

True. I also seemed like one of those selections where the people making the choice basically knew Nolan was going to win, since it’s always nice when the presenter handing off the award truly has a reason to be psyched about the win.

I thought, “That can’t possibly be right,” so I looked on IMDB. Shit.

It sounds like you’re having a lot of trouble getting through Suits, and you don’t say a single positive thing about the show.

Right. Even when we say that, “Everyone is watching Suits now,” we don’t really mean that. We mean that a surprising number of people globally are watching Suits, given that it’s an old show that wasn’t enormously popular when it aired.

They couldn’t get the rat-faced guy to show up?

You thought The Holdovers was similar to Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, only with steampunk frivolity and some wit?

If you feel gaslit by an article in a humor website making a comment about The Deer Hunter, OK. But then I want a new word for what “gaslit” used to mean.

They aren’t really hanging out though. They were selected to present an award together.

I don’t think that’s wrong, per se. But I do think the Academy, and people who write about movies for a living, tend to have a narrow conception of what makes a movie great —usually subtle, art-y movies tackling challenging or unpleasant themes. Maybe those are truly the best. But I think it’s worth wondering, if…

“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Budget”

Yeah, I wonder if Damon and Affleck resent the idea that they’re defined from being endearingly psyched at an award show 25 years ago. They’ve both had very successful, interesting careers, occasionally in shared projects but mostly separately.  If you’re the star of the Bourne movies and The Departed, or director of T…

I really like Meryl Streep, but I think this continues to be an astute observation about her from The Onion:

If you’re talking about two big, tentpole movies that are expected to appeal to a broad cross-section of moviegoers, it can make some sense to think of them as being in competition with each other. But a movie like Night Swim is really only in competition with its own budget. Horror movies thrive by being…

It’s a reference to a Seinfeld joke.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think you have anything to feel sorry for, or necessarily to do better on next time.  I thought your comment was worthwhile, and pushed back on it in what I hoped was a constructive manner.  I didn’t think anything you said deserved more than light disagreement, and hope I didn’t go…