‘So while you and I can at least appreciate what GoT was trying to do, if the emotional/instinctual through-line isn’t there, those people are gonna end up feeling cheated (see also: HIMYM). Which is why it’s gotta be done well if you’re gonna do it - you can’t really take any shortcuts with deconstruction, which I…

Okay, let me make an addendum. I wasn’t talking about the recent spade of woke remakes where the anger primarily comes from lazily trashing an established francise while shoehorning in an extremely sanctimonious ideology in the process. This is a new, specific and easily identifiable phenomenon to which Game of Thrones…

1) 7 seasons of set-up not enough?

2) The consequences thing I also don’t get. Because, for example, when you see Tyrion walking amongst the ruins to witness the horror of what Dany has done, you have some accussing the show of dead air.

3) Character motivations made perfect sense, in fact in most cases were overtly…

Okay, I’ll bite. What about the execution was the problem?

No, it was about the nature of power. It was about the nature of ideologies. It was about how societies progress. It was about how old cultural mores get abandoned and new ones take their place. It was about how to conduct oneself in life. How to weather the challenges life throws at you. How to change. How to grow.…

I love the people that continue to talk about the show ‘no one talks anymore.’ They say they hate the show, but it has gotten under their skin. Bad works of art don’t get such reactions. Bad works of art get forgotten.

Amen, Peter, amen! Thank you for speaking up! Every word he said was worth its weight in gold. He gets it. It’s really depressing that such a brilliant show gets so much hate for trying to do something new and daring, even if you are of the opinion that it didn’t work, which I am most certainly not.

I CREATE GREAT ACTING PERFORMANCES.... and I destroy them.

The Hook is a mediocre movie, but it has two brilliant scenes that absolutely have no place being in a movie of this caliber: RW learning to fly and the speech his wife gives to him which is perhaps, no exagerration, the greatest speech on parenthood in the history of cinema. So many lesser movies would have the wife…

There is also the question of: Did Mikey commit sexual assault by fraud or did Mikey's brother's gf commit sexual assault of a minor?

That’s beause both Potter and LOTR were always about pandering to their audiences and flattering their preconceptions. GOT on the other hand was the misfit that somehow gained cult status and catapulted itself into the mainstream just based on it’s quality alone. No one can deny that GOT tortured its audiences, took…

Well, for all the people who insist on GOT being ‘forgotten’, it still isn’t anywhere close to being so. The influences of GOT are far more subtle and long-reaching. The story of Dany’s turn will forever be etched into the people’s consciousness. The very intensity with which people deny that Dany’s turn was…

Well, in this case, the show is literally the end of history, or at the very least the end of Middle Ages. The corronation of King Bran signifies a new era for the realm.

Now, I would love nothing more than an industrial revolution take on Westeros, but very likely few people would go for it. It’s the least ‘romantic’…

How can it not be anything other than Jimmy Kimmel f***ing Ben Affleck? So much star power in just 5 minutes of deliciously irreverent comedy. 

Problem is, you can’t make a restaurant out of gas-station pizza and orange soda.

For a fantasy/sci-fi work to do well on the movie or TV screen, you pretty much need at least one of there two things, preferrably both:
1) Amazing storytelling, either absolutely top-tier in quality or daringly innovative.
2) Elements of…

Looking forward to the documentary “A Stream of Piss” sometime in the late 2030s.

Marlon Wayans, Requiem for a Dream
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Michael Palin, Brazil
Sarah Silverman, Star Trek Voyager, Future’s End I and II
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of The Chicago 7

You guys only managed to forget the biggest comedy-to-drama transition in history: Tom Hanks! He’s the quintessential example of this. From making a sandwich containing a chippendale dancer’s penis, he has gone to perform so many memorable dramatic roles it’s insane: Philadephia, Forest Gump, Saving Private Ryan,…

How the hell did no one mention ‘’All of Me’’?

Look, everything you say is true, but being good in this and interesting in that is a far cry from the career they could have had. Not a single one of them landed a single iconic role after Friends. By far the most successful person to emerge from Friends was Paul Rudd who used his episodic role to launch himself into…