Why does he overshare so much? Sigh…

It’s a Sicilian message ...

“I was angry for a minute that the two people who absolutely didn’t need the cash had no interest in doing this thing the rest of us were doing just for the cash."

“Et tu, Mary-Kate?”

In many countries, the gift of a frozen porkchop is considered an act of war.

We really are struggling with it and the powers that be are having a field day with it - especially the GOP propaganda machine. Quoting Chomsky: “The party has since become a radical insurgency that has abandoned any interest in participation in parliamentary politics,...” Instead they shift all of the attention to…

I’m also not sure you could say that any of those movies entered the “zeitgeist” in the sense that people were buzzing about them, they had recognizable parodies, other movies referenced them, etc. If you go back a couple decades you find things that left imprints all over popular culture - not just stuff like Pulp…

TBF those were what 3-4 years ago now already, in addition those are near the entirety of the list of higher class film. So while, yes there are examples of things truly breaking through, when they are operating at, maybe if they are lucky, a 1% rate of total production, So i dont think he is wrong. Not only that, but…

Tarantino is one of those “it it’s not done like they did it in the 50's and 60's, it’s not cinema.”

I think he’s wrong about the british actor thing. All that matters is if you can do the job, not where youre from. A british person playing an american isnt any “less authentic” than an american one if they can fool you. Lots of them, I had no idea they were british until I saw them in interviews, so obviously thewyre…

“The point of movies is to make money” is honestly the bleakest thing someone could write.

So he doesn’t know what The Irishman is about? Or Roma? Or The Ballad of Buster Scruggs?

QT is prickly, he’s combative, he’s a genuine crank. But he’s not wrong*.

The main reason I disagree with his statement is that a lot of “niche” stuff goes straight to streaming, or is only streaming in a handful of theatres in the U.S. (foreign films not in English, some animation, etc.), but that doesn’t mean they’re bad, per se.

I also sometimes just want to watch fascinatingly bad,…

And cast Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate

I mean, I hate Tarantino with a passion.

No, you’re attributing a special slant to the term, although that can be included. Looksism is merely a prejudice in favor of those who conform to a traditional and narrow definition of beauty. Although maybe it can include those who prefer a specific nonconforming set of qualifications?

“Whatever the reason, it begs the question; how many times can De Niro cash a paycheck before he’s known more for his failures than his successes?”

But you see those were two different things: Gal was trying to do something nice and people shit all over her for it and I think it was Ellen who was saying about it equalizing things. Nobody said that in the Imagine video.

It’s more that it was tone deaf and self-aggrandizing and lots of rich, famous people at the time were saying the pandemic was the great equalizer but like didn’t have to ride public transportation to an unsafe work environment every day. Way to go to bat for those poor wealthy people