Yeah, there’s this weirdly romanticized notion that studios in the 70s were just throwing money at artists to make capital-A Art, when the reality is that a lot of that art was either made within the confines of standard studio expectations (Coppola viewed doing The Godfather as slumming it with a trashy mob story at…

Where does Jack fit into that

with Coppola, with Scorsese, with Ridley Scott

“Back in the day we’d just hand John Boorman all the money and cocaine he wanted and deal with the consequences later, because that’s what artists do.”

I’ve got to be honest, I’m not seeing much in common between Dune and No Time To Die beyond both of them being expensive movies with large effects budgets. I get what he’s trying to say, but a slow-paced adaptation of half of a novel from the 60s and movie 25 in a film series that’s been going since... the 60s might…

I do agree that the finale would have landed much better without the highlight reel, but I still think it was fatally damaged by taking these dumb asshole characters and suddenly subjecting them to real consequences. It felt dangerously close to Having A Moral which went against the entire vibe of the show up to that…

It’s possible to enjoy a character without wanting to be them. Entire genres of media are kind of dependent on that!

And WotC already lets you play online. They’ve got multiple ways to do so.

The cookie-cutter sprawl-style development is happening either way. The only question was whether any of it was going to be set aside for poor people.

If you’re totally for real no foolin’ for affordable housing but manage to find a problem with it (and only it, in a broader piece of planned development) when the topic comes up that amount to “aesthetics” or “vibe” then you’re actually against affordable housing.

I loved it as the stupid mid-80s no-budget Italian knockoff of Jurassic Park that it was (setting half of it in a generic jungle and half of it in a big isolated house had a real “okay so what locations are cheap, we have some forest and a producer’s mansion” energy to it, and making the back half a slasher definitely…

He clearly had an idea of what he wanted to convey with the anthology format (it’s a film about the different ways people receive, interact with and discuss art, and the different kinds of impact it can have), but it just doesn’t quite build to any sort of larger observation that makes the journey feel worthwhile. I…

hot damn is the “young white male is the chosen one” trope getting old. I’m aware the original novel is probably an early iteration of said trope

Yep. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a comment so clearly written in Comic Book Guy’s voice.

Donald Trump was mostly remembered as a kitschy, grimy relic of the dullest part of the 80s until The Apprentice aired.

I tend to err on the side of telling them to fuck off, telling them why they can fuck off, and giving them absolutely none of your platform to present their side of the case in rebuttal (even if you think it’s just going to be giving them rope to hang themselves with). They have their own platforms to whine about it…

Compare Rogan’s repeated “oh that’s interesting” mantra with the time Johnny Carson had Yuri Geller on his show and fucking humiliated him for being a scam artist.

And the back stories and motivations and everything all seemed like they’d been plucked whole from a soap opera

Which is different from bad.

lying is bad