It’s not too difficult to figure out what happened to Mel Gibson.

...which is a reputation built on his work up through around 2013 or so. That doesn’t mean Donde is worth any sort of awards recognition, any more than “St. Anger” (Grammy award winner for Best Metal Performance) was back in the day. Dollar, Dollar Bill is right, it’s an award nominated entirely on the basis of name…

“Gov. DeSantis committed to me that he wanted to make sure that this law could not be weaponized in any way by individuals in the state or groups in the state to unduly harm or target gay, lesbian, nonbinary or transgender kids and families.”

Do you remember when the MCU did a movie where the bad guy won, killing half the people in the universe... and then let it hang for a year before resolving it? Or the one where the super-spy organization that was the foundation for the very successful Avengers movie got wiped out, turning out to have been…

It’s “obvious” in the way that the winking and nodding makes it obvious, but it’s not obvious in the way that a man who would have just said “I haven’t been the same since my wife died” is obvious. It’s crystal clear, but they’re still being cute about it in a way they never are with straight relationships.

anyone not on a hair-trigger level of defensiveness about Pattinson like the overwhelming majority of his fans

You made a dumb comment about Pattinson being “emo” and then went to 11 the second someone said something about it. You’re right, all the words are up there to read, and yours are evasive and aggressive as all hell, as though you’ve been in this exact argument before and wanted to skip the normal back-and-forth and…

No. In his first comment he assumed you came to that conclusion because you’d only seen the Twilight movies, because that’s the extremely common reason people come to said conclusion.

The point is that Disney flaunted this tiny bit of gay-hinting as some sort of giant progressive leap for them, and the actor is saying “that was a dumb thing to do.”

“What makes you see Robert Pattinson as emo if not the Twilight movies, which are typically the reason he gets that characterization” seems like a pretty ordinary question for a discussion about an actor, so I’m not sure why you’ve wildly overreacted to it as some sort of attempted gotcha moment rather than just…

It’s not about the individual players. It’s about who they, collectively, as a team, are representing in this specific event. Individual members of the North Korean soccer team may not support brutal authoritarianism, but they are part of a team composed with the intention of representing a nation that currently does.

In the World Cup, the players are participating as representatives of their countries. I don’t see why it’s then unfair to treat them as representatives of their countries in the context of the event. And when that country is currently starting a war that’s putting them on a huge chunk of the world’s shit list, well,…

You’re not wrong, but somehow of all the directors to say “movies today need to get to the point” I doubt Francis Ford Coppola is one of them.

My general impression was always that frats and sororities were holding cells for people who weren’t ready to grow out of high school’s cliquishness yet.

It’s not gonna be the same without you. When a lot of the old guard left, you were one of the ones who convinced me that the site still had a future. Good luck with wherever things take you in the future!

I’d think the crew would want the extra hours

To be fair to Coppola, the only Godfather film he actually wanted to make was Part II. The first and third were him desperately accepting Paramount’s offer because he was financially wiped out both times.

Annihilation was 2018. There have been nine Marvel films since.

The fact that every company strives for total market dominance doesn’t mean total market dominance is a good thing we should welcome uncritically.

You can be a fan of something, see all the differences that exist within that genre, and still understand why people might find it same-y in a broader sense. I love horror movies, but if horror dominated the box office for 14 years I wouldn’t blame someone for asking “hey, can we have movies that aren’t about people…