I agree. The UK needs to kill Bond, and in its place establish Mr. Bean as their preeminent national IP. That way they can cast all the cis white men they want in the title role of bumbling idiot Englishman and nobody will complain.

I totally get where he’s coming from re: not wanting to be “defined by race.” It’s maddening to hear ignorant people insist that racism would just go away if minorities and liberals “just stopped talking about race,” because it’s so blatantly not true but we really wish it was. I would love to just exist as a person…

I find it all fascinating. I hadn’t seen this video yet and its very interesting.

Also Scream 3 as a failed actress who didn’t get cast as Leia because she wouldn’t sleep with Lucas. Oh, and the movie was produced by the Weinsteins, it’s a whole uncomfortable Mobius strip.

Particularly when it’s not about actual elements (Water is a molecule, fire is a chemical process, earth and air both are complex mixtures of molecules). Do kids really understand the history of pre-science and know that the Ancient Greeks thought those four things were elements?

Goddamn that scene between Gwen and her father with the colors shifting was so beautifully done.

And if you want formula, that’s what sequels are for.  I’d be perfectly happy with an Inside/Out sequel (which of course is in the works).  But for other things, I wish they’d tell other stories.  I thought Soul was a missed opportunity to tell a straight story.  No whiz bang wondery or world building or magical…

ACTUALLY IT WAS ME

I didn’t ever get to the end of ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’, even though I love it’s wholesome message about boys growing up like their fathers.

I tried that with llama.cpp running Manticore-13B (an open source LLM that runs on your own computer rather than using some corporate server) and produced the following, which sounds better than Elemental.

“Look what the cat brought in the house.”  (Not a malapropism per se, but still made me chuckle.)

I think I heard that when Ed Norton was dating Salma Hayek he did an entire rewrite of “Frida” uncredited and for free. Also one of the rules is or was that you get script attribution if you have written some percentage of the script, so that incentivizes rewriters to rewrite what need not be rewritten. Many scripts…

We don’t know what she changed, but we know she only changed her own lines and wasn’t involved with plotting. Like, nothing she has said dismisses the importance of writers. 

I’d imagine the problem lies more in a big sticker that says “X has taken steps to earn this and gave me their phone number” than the check itself. You can probably give someone a service they don’t want as part of the terms of sign-up; I doubt that gives you license to lie about how they got it.

She wrote Twilight and made vampires into glitter-fiends.

They don't watch this shit man, we do. They watch YouTubes and Tik Toks. And they're smart - they go to the movies they want to. Tentpole means less to them inherently. 

I mean I’m not asking for them to go full Christian Bale haha. Wouldn’t have minded a real quick aside that “x person passed out from not eating”. Every time I used to fast for Yom Kippur it’d be like 8 hours and I’d start feeling a little light-headed. I think they could’ve thrown in bits and bobs like that to make…

“There was an episode one time, this has only happened once in 20 years of being on the show—the episode was so offensive I can’t repeat it now. It had to do with Christ on the cross but there was no humor in it and it was just so, so horribly offensive,” he explained.

Guess we’ll have to hold out for a while to see if the dude from the Mandalorian can act convincingly while wearing a mask.

I mean he has always been a weirdo so I could buy him saying crazy shit even if innocent. The question is...is he merely an asshole or something more?