What is “his target demo”?

So basically, all internet commentary beginning with “so basically” is automatically wrong even if it’s right.

Anderson and Tarantino arguably both don’t care much about the real world relative to movies. Although Anderson is fixated on his own ability to create worlds, while Tarantino is like George Lucas expressing his fandom of the schlock he consumed when young.

Scorsese is better than Anderson or Tarantino. He has range. He didn’t make a real mob movie until Goodfellas, and has also done comedy, made a musical, and the film he made before The Irishman was Silence. Tarantino was at least trying to stretch a bit with his latest, which was mostly a comedy, but he’s still no…

Wahlberg did supposedly grab a loudspeaker to complain about Russell groping him during Huckabees, but that didn’t stop them from working together again. Russell’s behavior during that particular film seems to have been quite odd, supposedly with the intent of keeping his actors on edge.

I don’t see how our stance toward Russell has anything to do with someone dying.

His most notorious incident, because we do have the video, is blowing up at Lily Tomlin on I Heart Huckabees, and she said afterward she’d be happy to work with him again. It seems standards really are different in Hollywood.

We didn’t get a tape of it, but during American Hustle supposedly Bale had to get up in Russell’s face to tell him to stop being so awful to Amy Adams. I don’t know if anything like that happened on The Fighter.

I don’t think “phobic” is the right term to apply to him. If anything, he could stand to be more afraid of other people.

here’s hoping his stab at colossal kaiju mayhem is as much fun as his first two films, You’re Next and The Guest

She came out as “impossible to describe by Governor_Explosion”, while everyone else is free to use even the most offensive words to refer to her. Some have called this quite innovative, while others objected that she’s partly just imitating Prince.

I thought the name was “L. Ron Hubbard”. Elrond Hubbard sounds like a half-elf.

I hadn’t heard of that. Do you remember any of the films he liked?

The “silent generation” comes between the “greatest generation” who fought in the war, and the boomers. Scorsese was born a bit too early to be a boomer, so he’d be at the tail-end of the silents. Of course, since age is a continuous variable, talk of discrete “generations” across society is a bit silly.

I’m surprised there have been this many replies to a comment bringing up Angela Lansbury and nobody else has brought up that angle of The Manchurian Candidate.

I actually don’t know much about the details of how the adoption worked in that particular case. I did hear more details about the birth mother once her daughter started doing the same things.

Dowd’s final comment made me wonder if there are any reviews of it by actual Nazis.

I remember NBC briefly imported a Canadian family sitcom called Working the Engels that she was on. One half of the family, including her, was decent, but the other was so broad that they didn’t all seem to belong on the same show.

What has Rohl been up to since Hannibal? I thought that last season misused her, but then it misused everything.

Tell that to Sergeant York and the Lost Battallion!