They’ve gone less from letting it shape their opinion to more trying to use it to back them via the ol ‘vox populi’ strategy (ex. citing what they refer to as a low user RT score for TLJ as proof it failed...which, again, sort of falls flat as an argument given the fact these review bombing campaigns have been pretty…

On the plus side, they had the good taste to give Best Picture to *checks notes* the guy who just flashed his dick at women.

...yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh...

Honest question - are you secretly Glenn Close’s agent or PR person? Cause you are taking this surprisingly personally and, for insisting you bear no ill will to Colman, you seem to be going out of your way to take swings at her.

Every time.
Every bloody time I feel like this was cancelled and died quietly with a knife between the ribs, only to learn it’s still going and getting more seasons.

The blessing and curse of working nights.

To be somewhat fair to Thiel (loosely) it’s not just him.
There’s a whole weird pseudo-religious ethos in parts of Silicon Valley that basically believes in the idea of advancing science to guarantee themselves immortality (Live, Work, Work, Work, Die is a fascinating read in the first part for the desperate gold…

Prettymuch the impression I’ve had, yeah. For a movie Cameron spent a decade building up as his magnum opus, a lot of people, myself included, were surprised at just how rote and by the numbers this masterwork’s story turned out to be.

Usually people are quick to point out how that is a term actually used in some scientific circles for theoretical/nonexistent materials.

Having said that, if the past two years of news/politics are anything to go by, just cause something is real, doesn’t mean it won’t read as contrived and on the nose in a work of…

We’re kind of seeing a proof of concept re: Cameron’s strengths v weaknesses right now with Alita - another long-standing passion project he’d been promising to bring to the screen for years before finally handing the directing off to Robert Rodriguez.
To the movie’s credit, the action is well-directed, the CG’s good,…

Oh, it happened...
I had managed to forget about it for years - years, I say - but then I saw this and like a cliched flashback scene, it all came barreling back (...though if we’re being honest, my memory was of them doing it for The Thin Red Line. The point is - yes, that was a thing they actually did.)

‘guy in charge of the country’ - that was sort of the problem. As far as a lot of people up top were concerned, he had no business ruling a country he had never lived in and was gonna fuck up the whole plan to take the war to the surface that was the reason he was being called to take over in the first place.

This…

Prettymuch this.
It’s a movie that looked at the more fantastic aspects of the DC Universe and went “Yeah? What of it?” and just embraced them unabashedly.
After the painfully dour start to the DCEU it was a welcome change of pace.

Also...James, I know you like to act like you’re above these comic films, but it’s been…

hairfuck the animal into submission?

And then he went on to appear in Batman v Superman.
THIS is where you want to put your tacit endorsement, Neil?

On the one hand, there are people who will tell you that is technically a real term used in some science fields.

On the other, if the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that often things that happen in real life can, in fiction, register as painfully contrived and on the nose so that people don’t care if it’s…

Interestingly, AVC was the source of an article that tried to get behind that mystery - how Avatar could be one of the highest grossing movies...and then so quickly vanish from the collective consciousness as little more than a title.

The world’s priciest flash in the pan, if you will.

He can try all he wants, he’s never going to top incinerating his career through his general beef with 12 Years a Slave.

I hear that sound and rather than getting misty-eyed, I start staring into the middle distance as it becomes mixed with the opening guitar strains of ‘The End’ by The Doors.

Dark years, those were...

It’s possible to get out, thankfully.
Speaking from experience - and holy shit, looking back on my younger self, there’s better than average odds I’d have backhanded the little shit at least once.

Even with that factored in, the algorithm has a tendency to prioritize in such an odd way that it will take even the slightest inch and try to run a full marathon.
Most of my YT history within the past 6 months consists of The Majority Report, old episodes of Mr. Show and Mystery Science Theater 3000 and a whole…

Ultimately that’d still hang in part on the system.
I remember going to one of the roadshow screenings of The Hateful Eight where they had the intermissions.
...and even with that in mind, the line to the bathroom was long enough I almost wasn’t back in time.