This is only true if you see ‘great art’ as a math problem, as something that will grow exponentially as the amount of content grows. But it’s not clear that this is the case. Indeed Netflix et al are glutting the market with their algorithm-created content, which takes a lot of space from the kind of cinema Scorsese…

He’s right about the term “content.” The prevailing use of the word in digital contexts is to denote works as “pieces of . . .,” largely unconcerned with what is contained in those works. And this does ultimately affect how works are produced - more and more, “content” is being produced with where it will sit as a piec…

I'm always amused by the people accusing others of having a limited perspective deliberately knowing nothing about the people they are talking about.

At this point, the only thing worth doing with a Barsanti article is finding the link in it to the original source (or Googling it if it’s not included) to go read what was really said/written by the famous person. There’s no need to try to sort through or react to a recap written by someone with shit-tinted glasses.

Wow, it’s almost like you know literally nothing about Scorsese’s efforts to preserve and distribute foreign films and those made by PoC, and have completely misunderstood his point!

But he’s right. And it’s not because the industry has moved passed him like you suggest, it’s because with a glut of everything, it has added to diminish artistic value

You should totally fight them behind the school at recess.

Not defending the article or anything (its premise is tenuous at best), but sheesh you sound like a lot. Maybe take it down a notch.

I could've sworn the last few times this happened that the AVC was all for shuffling the offensive stuff away. Am I crazy or did the company line change? 

Goddammit, let’s go.

Thank God You’re An Asshole!!!

“I think the idea of “Deserving to be seen on the big screen” need to die at this point.”

Which we shouldn’t have gotten. Releasing that film was irresponsible and will tarnish Nolan’s reputation for a long, long time.

Yes, too many people are going to the movies during a pandemic.

AV Club’s position is that too many people are going to the movies from a health perspective and not enough are going to justify Warner Brothers finacial strategy. There’s no reason those two things are incompatible.

Yes, that is the obvious and sensible reading.

Eh, do you really think Kubrick could make 2001 now? It would need a fight scene and stuff blowing up real good. Lynch can sneak his stuff in through the framework of pulp elements. Tarantino, as much as I like his films, at his heart is more of an exploitation director [One Upon a Time in Hollywood was a real…

Hard agree. There could be a hell of a lot more to this movie that will reflect Villenueve’s artistic sensibilities and grant it life beyond “big Hollywood blockbuster adaptation of sci-fi book.” I’m certain there will be. He’s a gifted director. But the preview alone doesn’t suggest that.

I have no doubt Jodorowsky’s “Dune” would have been a self-indulgent piece of cinematic diarrhea but at least it might have been gloriously entertaining. Villeneuve's take is doubtlessly going to be coldly stilted and as insufferably middle brow as a community college film instructor.

What do suicidal tendencies have to do with euthanasia?