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[quote]they'll slop their drippers over something like "don't look up." Which was genuinely awful.[/quote] It was awful. It was also not well-reviewed....

re: How would you rank these 5 movies:

Posted by Jay Are on 5/3/24 at 7:31 pm
1. Zone of Interest 2. Dunkirk 3. Oppenheimer 4. Imitation Game 5. Hacksaw Ridge ...
[quote]The tweet that sent me to the article actually had that quote.[/quote] Yes. And that quote is in the context of her saying it made for an extremely awkward first day of filming a movie. Which makes sense....
[quote]Exactly. You signed a contract and got paid and now you want to bitch. That is fine, but I don't care. At all.[/quote] The article is her talking about how it was a really difficult scene to film on the first day of shooting, but that it was ultimately a fine experience and that the scene ...

re: Have protests ever changed a mind?

Posted by Jay Are on 5/2/24 at 12:47 am
[quote]I just don't understand having a protest at a random college town for something that is occurring 6,000 miles away. If they want to protest, go to DC where policy is made.[/quote] The college protests didn't start as a way to change government policy, though I'm sure the students would lik...
[quote]But if it's coming from Sorkin, it's obvious that he'll focus on "misinformation" of the right.[/quote] Hollywood's boomer centrist idealist? Have you people never seen a Sorkin film?...
[quote]More sense than them being able to move huge stones.[/quote] How? How does magically being cast from synthetic materials make more sense your brain than ropes and pulleys?...
[quote]To me, a kid showing a lack of respect and appreciation for being born American as opposed to someplace where cannibalism is still a thing is a very bad look.[/quote] That's not what protesting is. And wtf are you talking about with the cannibalism thing?...
Oh shite, is a corporate-owned school that looks like it was built to house a totally different kind of business suddenly closing after the 3 year state testing waiver that charters schools get ended? This never happens....
[quote]Its been apparent to me for years that True Romance has been hid away probably because nobody wants to offend the second most holy exalted race[/quote] I guess scotty doesn't know that true romance is available for digital rent and purchase from the major digital outlets, or that it got a ...
[quote]It's like none of you actually understand what the entire gender-swapping problem is at all. You don't get why it rubs people the wrong way and have never actually thought about.[/quote] [quote]2. Taking the Norrin Radd story, history, narrative, and using Shalla Bal in name only and trans...
[quote]just watched True Detective season 4 and their idea of a strong female lead is a woman who will choke you and try to break your dick off in bed.[/quote] The show that went very out of its way to present its female protagonists as hardened and broken, but not at all "strong"?...

re: The Searchers is on HBO Max

Posted by Jay Are on 4/8/24 at 12:03 am
[quote]I only say its a hidden gem because it doesnt get as much play as some of the other Wayne films. It didnt win any major awards. Its rarely on streaming or TBS/TNT. Im always surprised when i talk to movie fans that havent seen it, but they are out there.[/quote] It features an ugliness of ...
[quote]The media said to prepare for loss of transportation (not traffic) and loss of communications for weeks.[/quote] What media are you watching and reading? Most of us who ignore obvious clickbait have not seen such bullshite. Regular media has talked about traffic, groceries, and an abundanc...
[quote]Please explain in detail how human beings used their legs to walk all the way from Africa to Patagonia to the Orkney isles to Svalbard.[/quote] I don't think anyone has suggested they did it in just a few days......
[quote]Mainstream media is reporting about NG being deployed,[/quote] Yeah, these reports are specifically about places in the totality, where there will be shite tons of tourists... It's a travel advisory, everybody. No one is telling people in New Orleans to lock down or buy 2 weeks worth o...
[quote]He wants to put Perlmutter back in charge of Marvel. That alone is enough to make anyone support him.[/quote] The now 81 year-old who's now best known for being part of the executive group that bankrupted marvel, focused his entire career almost exclusively on toy sales, and notoriously ch...
[quote]the Silver Surfer in the new Fantastic Four movie… who has been a man for the last 50 years,[/quote] Except for when they introduced a female surfer... 42 years ago. And that character was introduced 56 years ago. So, yeah, the Silver Surfer was exclusively male for 8 of the 50 yea...
[quote]I dislike the trend of taking old characters and making them broken and defeated at the start of the movie like all of their progress and growth in previous films was undone off screen[/quote] [quote]this is deliberate[/quote] No shite. His son died. It's fricking called pathos....
[quote]Sure, but she's not Sue Storm level attractive.[/quote] The idiot internet deciding Vanessa Kirby isn't hot is one of the most hilariously idiotic things I learned today. Good job, guys. ...