That's very true. If there ever was a classic in the making, it's that film, if solely for that time capsule aspect.

Played Hawking well is sorta an understatement. He really was Hawking, to the point that I forgot that he wasn't. It was easily on the level of Daniel Day Lewis's performance in Lincoln.

Honestly, the academy cannot keep playing Wes Anderson like this. I'm willing to accept that GBH wasn't best picture material, but not winning best original screenplay? Come on, guys.

The way his suicide was presented was so jarring. "Oh yeah, he killed himself a year later. BUT ANYWAY."

It really stinks for Boyhood, tho. Best director and best editing should have been a slam dunk for it.

Honestly, Boyhood was straight robbed for best Director and best editing. Like, I don't understand how creating a movie over 12 years and editing it into a chohesive and emotionally satisfying whole doesn't win those awards. Perhaps it's because the Acadeny is incredibly whack. Who even knows.

You are truly doing the lord's work.

Kinda? It's a lot more nuanced than that. But yeah, sorta.

I'm happy to have been of service, and I appreciate the discourse.

Okay, I suppose. This isn't the hill I'm going to die on, but I feel like you're trying to twist Tocqueville into your mindset. While what you're describing may very well be true, it doesn't really address any of his specific points. Also, differentiating mindsets and culture is sorta an arbitrary distinction.

Dog whistle ahoy!

The Nordic states (among others) beating our ass in a great many rankings of education, etc. tend to sway me away from thinking we're the best period. And I'd point out that where you'd most like to live is not always an indication of a country's objective quality.

I think the difference is that this is predictive. Volvo's tech detects someone who is in front of you. This can detect when someone might be in front of you soon.

I got that idea from Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," one of the first works in which America is refered to as exceptional.

I know the feeling. It pisses me off even more because its modern usage is a corruption of the old meaning, which was closer to "America is unlike anyplace else on earth." Which is true, for better or for worse. But now the phrase basically means that America is the greatest nation ever to exist in history. Which is…

True. It's also amusing because this fundamental reliance on teaching the modern corruption of American exceptionalism at all costs belies this underlying shame about our country's often checkered past. The only real reason you wouldn't want to teach our real history is if you were ashamed of it. Because, really, it's…

I kinda get why they did it (see quote from their page upthread), but yeah, it's pretty whack. Like, fetishes aren't under the same umbrella as LGBTQ people at all.

Its way is certainly greased with the universal lubrication of politics: money.

It's actually in their description, if you follow the link back to the house's homepage. Which is regrettable, because having an acronym that long sorta defeats the purpose of one.

Hot take, bro.