i mean, yeah, it was obviously a bit, but it was a very fun bit. glenn close giving it up for the DMV is hilarious

it’s pretty cleanly split in two — they wrap up talking about Used Cars about halfway through the episode and it becomes a long conversation about the modern state of hollywood comedy for the rest of the ep

I don’t think the credit card at 12 thing is *that* crazy — I got my first bank account and debit card at 13, and a credit card is smarter than using a debit card for stuff if you can trust the kid. 12 is a little young, but if they’re going out with friends often enough it’s good to have some access to money in…

Everything the Wachowskis have ever made has some spark that makes it interesting and fun, I really like them a lot in general. Even something like Jupiter Ascending, which I don’t think comes together at all, is admirably bonkers and heart-on-the-sleeve earnest. But Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite movies, and I…

eh, I don’t think Revolutions is *bad*, it’s just way too long! I kinda like what’s going on in terms of the ideas (honestly I think the Neo stuff still owns). The big problem with that movie for me is that the entire battle section of the movie, where it’s just a big Aliens ripoff.... it’s real bad. It sucks the life…

I’m a fan of the Pirates trilogy in the exact same way I’m a fan of the Matrix trilogy. I love the the first movies in both trilogies because they are these pristine artifacts that do exactly what they intend to do perfectly (obviously The Matrix is better, but Pirates is an insanely perfect Hollywood summer…

I don’t think I needed her to behave in the perfect moral or legal way — obviously it’s a work of fiction. They probably didn’t even need to get into specific acts of making amends.

Yeah, maybe 90% of what I’m mad about is that awful line. “They’ll never know what you sacrificed for them”? Jesus christ, what about what they sacrificed for you??????

Man... if this story was useful to you, I’m genuinely glad. But I thought the ending totally flubbed what was a great little show by not dealing with its implications.

yeah I’m into this but they’ve clearly got a lot of work to do on performance. 

It’s bizarre that there’s this sort of representational progressivism grafted onto this argument too, as if comic book movies are more equitable and representational than any other type of movie. IMO the dominance of comic books is actually just evidence that Gen-X dudes still run American culture, as they have for…

I think that this is the right take. IMO poptimism has wildly overshot the mark about what deserves to be taken seriously, but that was totally inevitable, and the balance will swing back towards something that is both significantly more equitable than it was before while still differentiating artists with skill and…

eh, Coppola’s entitled to his opinions as long as he just stays on his winery. If he was more involved in the film industry or putting more thought into what he was saying (like Scorsese is), I’d be more interested in interrogating his thoughts. But he’s just a old guy who makes wine, let him hate what he hates.

but it absolutely does, at least in the American studio system. the sort of movies that will never, under any circumstances, make a billion dollars are being squeezed out by IP and Superheros. Like, this is an extremely obvious thing that’s happening — why would a studio devote any time and energy to a $40 million…

For me, it was the line “At one point, Dornan is in something like a love triangle of Wiigs” and I was like, “god, I’m going to pay $20 for this, aren’t I”

oh no, i actually laughed out loud while reading the plot described in the review. i’m a total mark for this shit.

see, what I love about the ending of that game is that I disagree, but totally see where you’re coming from! In my view, the Fireflies were painted as a failed and decaying revolutionary group that didn’t allow Ellie the chance to give informed consent (or even say good bye!). They would have killed her if there was a…

maybe... but, man, I don’t know how they wouldn’t end the first season with the end of The Last of Us. like, that’s the whole point of the narrative!

Definitely, it’s a question of degree (three movies for The Hobbit was just greedy — maybe they could have made two without stretching too much) and quality. If you’re stretching out a narrative with meaningless junk, obviously it was a bad decision.

ten episodes gives you a lot of time to flesh out character and add subplot. and there are a whole lot of people who will never play the game because they don’t play games!