Yeah. If there’s anything the Oscars don’t need, it’s more solemnity about how important what they’re all doing is. Killers of the Flower Moon was one of the major movies nominated this year, and a joke about its length is about the mildest possible joke anyone could make about it.

Wouldn’t an unappealing mix of The Morning Show and The Newsroom just be The Morning Show or The Newsroom?

Also, no movie has any claim on your time if you don’t want to watch it. “Important” movies are still just entertainment.

Did the AV Club forget that it put not just Oppenheimer, but also Poor Things, ahead of Killers of the Flower Moon in its list of the best picture of 2023? So why all the sudden wailing about the fact that the Academy . . . agreed with you? How is a movie “snubbed” when you think the actual winner was better?

I also think there’s also a simpler answer here: Anything new you turn on is potentially something you won’t like. But time kind of acts as your editor with old TV. At the time you first watched Friends, you also probably watched a lot of other stuff, much of it shitty, just like today. But the stray episodes of Caroli…

The author’s pissy attitude about a joke about Killers of the Flower Moon being long is dumb and self-defeating. Particularly his grouchiness that we need to devote more time to movies about the “long, painful trail of genocide that runs throughout the world.”

I totally agree with the value of art and entertainment in a total way. But we’re talking about Max here, one of a handful of large-ish streaming services, and only a very small part of a larger ecosystem of ways to see movies or watch TV, and TV itself being only one of the ways humans entertain themselves..

You know what? I’m deleting something I wrote that was snarky.

Maybe VRTY could give her a nickname to make her seem like she isn’t someone who has been a legal adult for a quarter century.

One of my problems with Megan Markle and Prince Harry is their tendency to conflate online criticism with threatening behavior. If YouTube hosts, and refuses to take down, videos actually threatening Markle, then that’s absolutely a problem. But saying Youtube “incites death threats” seems like a softer, mushier…

One of my problems with Megan Markle and Prince Harry is their tendency to conflate online criticism with threatening behavior. If YouTube hosts, and refuses to take down, videos actually threatening Markle, then that’s absolutely a problem. But saying Youtube “incites death threats” seems like a softer, mushier…

We’re talking about an entertainment product. Even if it costs too much, who cares? Then it’s basically a Ferrari — something that costs too much, which is why people decide not to buy it.

This seems to me more like the thinking that destroyed journalism — people get used to getting something for free that they used to pay for, then get indignant at the idea that the thing costs money. Here, a lot of people got used to the idea that they should just get to see whatever TV shows they want without paying…

Why would the people paying for Max drop it?  Out of . . . solidarity with people who weren’t paying for Max but using it anyway?

Finding Forrester’s a great call! But the one I’m really kicking myself for forgetting is Witness.

Look, once you add Suits to your Netflix queue, that’s nine seasons you gotta get through.

“Wait a minute! The Holdovers is about a hard-hearted character finding a new lease on life through caring for a kid? That was my idea!” — the writers of Gran Torino, Up, True Grit, St. Vincent, Dennis the Menace, Logan, Leon, Shane, The Royal Tenenbaums, Jurassic Park, and Terminator 2

All the people who saw Man from U.N.C.L.E. agree.  So that’s at least two of us, and probably a few more.

How is Max using it’s “market position” here? Spell it out in a couple sentences here. Because you seem to be using these terms to suggest some level of economic exploitation, without ever explaining what you mean.

How little self-awareness does this site have to have to criticize someone else for just seeing an actor’s name, thinking of how they dislike something about them, and prejudging a project on that basis?