Just out of curiosity, did you see the movie?

Those “zings” would have a lot more oomph if her production company had ever hired a female director not named Natalie Portman.

I’m excited for the return of High Maintenance. Although excitement is probably the wrong word to describe such a low-key joy.

The joker is only a white guy because he’s been drawn this way since the begining.
If you know enough of his history and knew how he was treated (when done right, looking at you Leto...) neither being white nor being a guy (except for one story where that part is kinda important) are important trait of him. He’s a…

The thing about the Joker being written by white guys in white America in the 1940s is that they wouldn’t have thought of writing him as anything else; “white” for those people (and I’m white myself) was synonymous with “default human being”. There was no statement being made in writing him as a white man.

You don’t actually understand why it’s a problem for a white person to play a person of color, and think that the reverse situation is “the same” somehow. I’m going to assume at this point that you’re just uneducated on the issue and not actively trolling.

Is his race a factor at all? Joker is almost always shown to be a guy wearing white makeup covering his entire face. An occasional origin story may show him without it, but it’s hardly an important feature. Personally, I’d not like a black Superman simply because his look is so iconic. But I don’t see the occasional…

The bigger underlying difference the long vast over-representation of white men in our media and that ‘white’ and ‘male’ has been the default characteristics of protagonists in western media. Also, when lead characters weren’t white men, their ethnicity or sex were often central elements t0 their characters. For…

There are three types of people in this world: those who can do math and those who can’t. ;-)

Here’s you discussing The Outsiders:

From the Allison article:

Maybe it's just me, but for me, Laura Dern is pretty great. 

A couple thoughts: Good, I’m glad he’s looking to do something new. Star Trek needs to be doing new things and stop either going back to the well of prior characters and franchise minutiae or its recent tendency to just ape big blockbuster spectacle wrapped around the simplest of story ideas. It doesn’t even have to…

My feelings are not quite as hyperbolic as yours, but you aren’t really wrong except that the PT is far, far, far worse than the ST. Almost everybody will agree that the ST has at least one good movie and one OK movie, even if they can’t agree on which is which.  The PT has (easily) the three worst SW movies.

I’m now a 100% OT Purist. I have no love for both Prequels and Sequels and I think that the true quality Star Wars trilogy will always be The Original Trilogy especially with TROS having completely screwed up the entire Sequel trilogy.

In a completely unrelated point to the article above.

It’s going to be a weekend of delivering packages and getting places on the chiral network in Death Stranding for me.

I started Death Stranding so I’ll probably play more of that. I’ll also work more on Outer Wilds. I feel like I’ve found a lot but I don’t feel like I’ve actually made any progress. I dunno. There are things about it that I like but so far it hasn’t really clicked for me.

I loved TFA and TLJ, and am a bit bummed that JJ took the best elements of TLJ and tossed them aside. TRoS is full of nonsense and some incredible leaps of faith, but at the end of the day, I wanted to sit in the theater and have fun while watching a Star Wars movie. TRoS gave me that. So despite all of it’s…

That changing of Rey’s parentage really frustrated me to no end, especially because it really made me appreciate the TLJ’s approach. There’s something awesome about this concept that someone will be there to rise up, no matter what their background, only to ignore it because it has to be about destinies and…