Or, never groom a child to date you as soon as they turn 18, fuck them, and dump them. Because that’s shitty af.

“The vibrant, jocular tone of the book?” Persuasion is easily Austen’s most thoughtful, even downbeat novel. There are some elements of humor, but treating it like a breezy Regency lark is exactly the wrong approach, and it’s why pretty much everywhere else hates this movie.

Kingdom of Heaven is the obvious example of a movie with a much better director’s cut than theatrical cut. I get what Taika and you are saying but there is no definitive rule of “all director’s cuts suck.”

I think the LOTR extended editions hit a point of diminishing returns. Extended Fellowship colors in so much lore and character detail--particularly the hobbits and Aragorn--that I consider it the definitive edition. Extended Return, on the other hand, just piles more stuff on top of an already bloated movie. Extended…

Amazing how you people have so many elderly, washed-up comedians on your team, yet you still haven’t been able to come up with a second joke.

Yeah, you’re right.

You’re probably right, (reads screen name).

Could you transition to someone who makes smart jokes?

She’s got 54 acting credits so probably has more experience of working with various directors that you.

have the one token diversity nomination in every single category?

Not even commenting on the efficacy of the demonstration but: not sure what you gain by accurately labeling this as virtue signaling...they’re intentionally virtue signaling because they hope other people will follow their model and act more virtuous...maybe you are thinking it’s virtue signaling where they ONLY want…

“woke virtue signaling.”

And that book actually has a quite powerful ending where the “hero” cop realizes he was actually the bad guy of the story, getting in the way of Chilean resistance fighters who were trying to get back the money stolen from the country’s people in Pinochet’s deals with Kissinger.

Yeah, this is an especially weird project on which to fantasize about an unexpurgated original cut, given that it’s infamous for having been an absolute bear to edit into shape, because Hughes shot reams of extra footage without really having any idea how or if he would use any of it. Basically, it was a movie that…

I guess I can understand where he’s coming from. Celebrities can be tiresome when they get political. Probably, the less we know about them personally, the better.

Yeah I don’t disagree with Kurt but as Trump and Reagan proved, celebrity has power to the point of becoming President so his words while not entirely wrong, also speak of a ship that sailed decades ago.

You know it was/is a traditional Celtic festival right?

Maybe he should have made the mannequins Black, and then no one would care? 

At least the body parts were clothed.  Any hint of nudity would be indecent.