Jay Are

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Yes, if you make a caricature of your opponent it's easy to paint them as odd and unhealthy.

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You're painting in the broadest strokes, about straw men.


Got out of the movie a few hours ago. Loved a few decisions and scenes; liked some others much less. Loved the Calypso framing device, cyclops, Circe scene, and sacking of Troy. Thought Scylla looked dumb. Thought the first 20 minutes were the slowest. Thought the final trial and fight were the worst looking moments in the movie. I enjoyed every major performance, except for Holland. I remain convinced that Corey Hawkins holds the most powerful blackmail materials in history.

Outside of Holland, the Telemachus stuff really suffers in comparison to The Return, which came out less than 2 years ago. That film stages the trial better, and Ralph Fiennes gives a powerhouse performance as Ulysses in it. It also handles Argus better. If this has already come up in this thread, cool and sorry. This is my first time entering.

Was pleased that this does not have the drowned-out dialogue issue. If anything the dialogue in the first act was too pronounced in the mix. Noticed this most during the Penelope/Telemachus palace rooftop convo.

After one viewing, I place this above Inception and Interstellar, what feel like the most obvious comparison points in the Nolan filmography, but it should be noted that I think inception is only dumb fun, and I think interstellar is actively bad.

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Question is which one breaks first?

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Dune has the imax screens. They'd have to move far out into 2027 to get that window again. Dune isn't moving.

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She has the range of a 2004 Hummer.

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Dune Part II
Challengers
The Drama

Can anyone explain how these three films show a limited range? Bonus points if you can still do it working in Malcolm & Marie.

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Why did Supergirl have it and The Devil Wears Prada 2 didn't

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There aren't millions of clicks in yelling about a comedy legacy sequel set in a female-dominated space (fashion magazines). There is endless rage to be generated by yelling stupid shite about a superhero film.

This board is also much more privy to social media "controversies" in the genre filmmaking. It's probably ignorant (as a collective, all of us) to assume there aren't content creators nitpicking and complaining about TDWP2. It's a huge sequel to a huge movie that has developed a massive fanbase over the past 20 years. There will be protective fans with strong opinions, both positive and negative.

If someone started a thread here about how they're casting gay actors in a movie about the fashion industry, it isn't going to get the same amount of attention as something about The Odyssey. People here can pretend to know what period-accurate armor looks like, and they can pretend to have read the source and pretend to know history, but they can't pretend as convincingly to know better than the filmmakers of The Devil Wears Prada. So such controversy would die on the vine here, and it likely doesn't reach your X and Youtube algorithms, which many of you have trained to feed you negative stupidity all day.

Tl:dr - posturing and virtue signaling for a louder group of social media users.

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No, I just don’t factor in irrelevant qualifiers because they’re irrelevant.

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It's okay to use your speech-to-text function to just say, "I ignore things I don't understand."

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So Ella Langley is “real” country music?

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Please.

They think she's attractive, and she hasn't done or said anything that politically annoys them yet.

It's just radio country, complete with the same rural pandering lyrics about farms, trucks, and Texas that you can find anywhere

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Jurassic World dominion made over 1 billion just 4 years ago. Is it ever talked about? Are the Avatar sequels? Didn't one of those come out less than a year ago?

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None of those set a recent record for r-rated live-action openings. None of those opened higher than their respective directors' other, larger franchises. None of those were the highest grossing weekends of a big name director despite being rated R. It's almost like making billion dollars wasn't part of the point I made.

I didn't make a claim about the odyssey making a billion. Making a billion does not guarantee a long cultural memory (though the Avatar mention is really stupid -- "No one cares about these, and also they keep being the highest grossing films of all time whenever they are released" Plenty care, even if I do not). I made a claim about The Odyssey being cited as a comparison point for its huge opening weekend in the near future. Unless something unprecedented happens tomorrow, its opening is going to be a frequently cited data point.


You must voice type all of your posts. You can't seem to read the things you're responding to.

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They don't let you do it exclusively through production hires anymore.

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Correct. You can meet it through on screen talent or content, production/creative crew, producer/marketing/distributor personnel, or literally just paying your interns.

2/4 of these gets you qualified. No previous Best Picture winner would have failed to meet these very easy requirements. Stop spreading bullshite.

You can very fukking easily read the Academy rules on the Academy website

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You can look it up.

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You could. As you, very obviously, have not.

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It’s funny you think this is a good argument

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The guy he responded to was pretty funny suggesting he didn't care about race, just realism, then ignoring the issues with other races, ignoring other unrealistic elements, and doubling down on complaining about only black actors.

A dumb joke in response to a really stupid point seems fine.