Yep. And honestly if I were him I would just own it at this point. “Yo, I’ve made a zillion quadrillion dollars and I’m just not that into writing anymore. I’m in my mid-70s and I’m going to retire and fuck around writing if and when I want, and let the HBO series stand on its own as the end of the story.”

“So, what can we take away from this? Nothing really. As always, the answer is to make good movies.”

It got a huge laugh in my theater. Maybe the biggest of the showing. It was just the perfect song, and not because it was being mean to Matchbox Twenty, but because it encapsulated a certain kind of frat boy with a guitar ethos that many of us women have, I suspect, encountered out in the wild. 

No offense to companies like SLOTRA and CYUREAY, but bags and such tend to be things that I prefer to buy from more established companies. I see names like those on Amazon and it always seems like a dead giveaway that the company is selling knockoffs or cheap imports. They could work perfectly fine, but will they…

“My behavior, while not criminal...”

Women Talking didn’t play anywhere near me, either. The only reason I got to see it is because a friend of mine is an awards show voter and we watched his screener together. It’s a shame, because it was such a good film and it deserved more acclaim and discussion than it got. 

I’m loving this weekend for film/cinema. I saw Barbie on Thursday and I’m thinking of doing Oppenheimer some times this coming week. I love that it shows that women will turn up for a movie that speaks to them. Honest to god, Barbie is the first movie to lure me back into the theater since covid. I don’t think I’ve…

I legitimately hope that “Just Ken” snags an Oscar nomination for best song so that he can perform it at the ceremony. 

And this review has the added bonus of basically proving the entire point of the movie. It’s a terrific own goal by Kyle Smith. 

I saw it yesterday and had the interesting experience of having one of my friends on one side of me and someone else’s boyfriend on the other. It was amusing to watch the movie and get hearty laughter from my (female) friend beside me while the man to my other side mostly missed the jokes but seemed to be having an OK…

This. I only put about 6,000 miles on my car last year (thanks, remote work!), and by my estimate, about 2,500 of those miles were out of state on three separate road trips. How will the per mile tax account for that? Because under the proposed tax I would pay about $150 for driving 6,000 miles, when in reality only…

I mean, people’s opinions can vary, but having seen it I definitely think that you could take kids (there’s nothing objectionable in it, content-wise) but that it is not for kids. I thought that going into the movie and I stand by that assessment. USA Today appraised it similarly:

I saw it today, and I can’t say there’s anything that would make it inappropriate for kids, content-wise (ie: sex and drugs). The one butt slap isn’t even shown on camera. But I also really don’t think kids would “get” it. It’s definitely a movie aimed at adults, given its storyline revolves almost entirely around…

Is Barbie the underdog in this situation, though? Really? Barbie is a smart, well-made movie that appeals to a broad audience through it’s intelligence and nostalgia factor. It is definitely not a kid’s movie (I saw it today). It stars a couple of marquee actors in Robbie and Gosling. Oppenheimer is a 3-hour long…

I saw Barbie today (it’s great) for all the reasons you listed. I’ll see Oppenheimer eventually, but I’ll probably wait to watch it as a screener with my friend who is a voter for one of the industry awards shows. Yeah, I get that it was shot in large format, but I don’t have an IMAX capable of capitalizing on that…

I got kind of mocked for suggesting a few weeks ago that Barbie’s box office would easily outstrip Oppenheimer’s. But my reasoning was much the same as yours: It’s a better sell to summer audiences. It has broad appeal to women, who quite frankly rarely get summer tentpoles targeted at them but are hungry for smart…

And with that in mind, I think these subscriber numbers might eventually prove illusory as more people do exactly what you’re doing. People signed up, but will they be retained? For example, I am one of the six million “new” subscribers in this group. But I’m only a new subscriber because I was a longtime subscriber…

It was awesome. A fun time, slyly smart. 

I just got back from seeing Barbie, and while they do venture into the real world, it is brief. Most of the movie is back at Barbieland. (And it’s great, btw. A really good time).

I am just constitutionally resistant to subscribing to companies who purposefully make their UX terrible in order to get people to subscribe to the non-terrible version. Nope. Not happening.