Bautista, as covered in that recent GQ profile, basically discovered that he actually wants to act and be something other than glowering muscle on-camera. Cena has no issue taking one on the chin or looking foolish if that’s what the role calls for (Ironic, given that he was WWE’s most protected guy for over a decade.)

I do enjoy a glass of Mick Foley’s Mankindischewitz.

Math is a much simpler form of logic that follows rigid values and equivalences, ethics are extremely complex and would require dunces like you acknowledging the nuanced histories and general social perceptions of different experiences and inequities of different genders, races, cultures, etc. in order to come close…

Hot take: while it was rude, inappropriate and unprofessional of him, and I understand a temporary ban, it was still not even fucking close to as big of a deal as people made about it. The hyperbole is insane - everyone was acting like Smith beat Rock to a pulp.

“This white dude with dreads is definitive proof that Avatar isn’t a Dances with Wolves ripoff!”

I laughed out loud at using Edgar Rice Burroughs as a defense against the white savior narrative. Wither the author is straight up trolling or it’s a massive self own.

“December has provided James Cameron with the unexpected boon of invoking Avatar in the same conversations as Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens, if only to remind everyone that his Dances With Wolves companion piece still holds the record for highest-grossing film of all time.”

I would really like to know cleanly and clearly one way or another if any money exchanged hands to lead to these articles as my goodness this reads like a shill piece.

Yeah arguing that it’s not a white savior movie because it’s not based on a 30 year old white savior movie but even older white savior material is not the winning argument that Luke seems to think it is.

“white savour-y”

the problem with the first avatar being dances with wolves wasn’t necessarily just about the political undertones, but rather being a hackjob of cliches from movies such as dances with wolves 

This is in no way a defense of Crystal Skull, but how else were they supposed to handle Henry Jones Sr. and Marcus Brody? Connery was firmly retired and Denholm Elliot was long dead. I can see why they had that scene where they showed their Last Crusade-era headshots and were just like “Eh it’s sad they both died last…

Short-term thinking also explains the most tedious criticism of the first film: that it’s just Dances With Wolves in space, complete with all the problematic “going native” and “white savior” aspects of the narrative. Put aside for a moment the fact that Cameron’s actual credited inspiration is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jo…

“Never bet against James Cameron!”

It’s not fanfare, it’s a warning that there’s going to be an entire new generation before the next one comes out.

Somehow, Quatrich has returned.

What’s weird about these reviews is critics pretending they didn’t also give raves for the first Avatar, simply because the movie hasn’t aged well. If you look at the reviews from the time on Rotten Tomatoes (meaning no retrospective reviews post 2009) it’s almost unanimous praise. AO Scott said he hadn’t felt this…

In the best possible way, the closest cinematic analogy I can draw in energy and appeal to Glass Onion is Ocean’s Twelve

They’re good but they’re very much a formula- which isn’t necessarily bad either, there are other examples of studios doing something similar, such as Universal’s horror films.

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