Here we have someone who was identified as a violent car-jacker

Gotham. Brigadoon.

As a resident of a city where many, many car-jackings result in death to the victim

The number of car-jackings that result in murder is vanishingly small.

If the police hadn’t engaged in a reckless, high-speed car chase there would be two fewer dead kids today.

I’d much rather these teens steal my car than have them or the police slam into me at 100+ MPH.

What are the odds that in a few weeks the police quietly release an update that this wasn’t actually the stolen car they were looking for?

The reason is simple: which one of the spoiled brats is spoiled the most?

Part of the problem is imagining it this way though. When people say the movie should have been shorter, they don’t necessarily mean “Take the finished product and remove parts until you get to a good length.”

How does the car know you’re the passenger not the driver?

My car won’t even let you sync a new device to bluetooth while the car is in motion, but we like Tesla, so we’re going to pretend it’s totally cool to play video games while driving. Okay...

It’s obviously very funny, but I do hate that this is going to give the Fox News bunch another reason to feel victimized and oppressed, despite having a massive platform on the most-watched news channel in the nation.

I concede it’s a fairly common statement, although I think a more general “that movie was too long” is far more common.

To be fair, no one in this thread spoke with that kind of certainty about exactly how much any particular movie should be cut down by. You introduced that to the conversation.

It’s what Ellen said when she hosted the Oscars: “Let’s be honest, it’s not that we don’t have time for long speeches. We don’t have time for boring speeches.”

Do people actually revolt though? Or do they just say “Man, that movie could’ve used a few more cuts.”

See, for me it wasn’t a distraction in Big Little Lies (at least season 1 - my memories of season 2 are hazy and there was a lot I didn’t like about it beyond anyone’s appearance). In the undoing it was a bit of a distraction, but her amazing hair distracted from the distraction, lol. And in a way it made sense for…

I think she’s an amazing actress, and I find the distraction of her plastic surgery varies between roles.

if Sheen is paid $1 million for a role (for example), but turns it down and they pay some other actor $100,000 instead, there’s another $900k sitting there that can go toward other productions, and will end up paying people anyway.

The last paragraph doesn’t really undercut anything. That reported clause in his will has no legal weight. You can make your wishes known, but you can’t legally demand that kind of thing in your will.