They would just complain about whatever blockbusters take their place.

Some dude in the 90s: What would happen if Hollywood stopped making disaster movies? Some dude in the 80s: What would happen if they stopped making buddy cop movies. Some dude in the 70s: What would happen if Hollywood stopped making spy movies? Some dude in the 60s: What would happen if they stopped making WW2 movies? Some dude in the 50s: What would happen if they stopped making westerns?

The two mains from the movie aren't the mains in the first book either really. But it made a lot more sense to focus the movie down and their pov probably was the most straight forward.

The 2nd and 3rd books get a bit too ridiculous for me. I enjoyed the first movie but the source material for 2/3 and the long delay in production might be an issue.

I find it ironic you list your art-house bona-fides in an attempt to bolster your credibility, then instead of offering what might resemble an actual argument, you just whine a lot.

> Do yourselves a favor and watch either John Cassavetes' OPENING NIGHT or Emmanuelle Bercot's BACKSTAGE.

Seen those, and I love Tar as well. Funny how that works.

It’s also by Eastwood

I’m meaning in the sense that superhero movies aren’t the only ones guilty of having that situation happen

Have you maybe tried actually looking at thr box office from mote than just 20 years ago?

I watched SHOAH when I was 12. Please don't assume what my attention span is.

What is different is them being not hyper concentrated into one genre but so few studios.

Bug movies used to be called Tentpoles because they provided revenue thst allowed a wider range of things to be made. The last decade there's been less and less tent.

The contrast between blockbusters and other types of films used to be far less drastic. Actually go back and loose a the top 10 box offices lists from before 2001. It wasn't all IP films from one studio. There was a much wider variety of viable genres.

Peace… for 5 minutes… until we find another thing to hate

10 Best Picture slots and they snubbed The Whale? For Elvis? Come ON.

I barely think of Tim Hutton, who won for Supporting (weird since he's pretty much the main lead), but Mary Tyler Moore was astounding. She and Donald Sutherland who was unfairly snubbed.

I personally thought it was riveting, the only thing I wished was that they showed us Tar actually conducting a full piece and not just the glimpses that we saw.

Gotta check out The Place Beyond The Pines if you haven’t yet, he’s amazing in that

Big ass head community

I found it rather engrossing. I’ve only saw it once, in a theatre so it’s easier to be more engaged, I guess.

What you refer to as “woke politics” (what is this in the film, according to you? I’m curious.) is just serious drama to me. There’s no distinguishing the two. In fact, I think it’s the crutch of the movie because it grounds it to the present world that we live in. I didn’t find it uneven because of that.

I don’t know if you can compare her performance in it to someone in a Cassavetes movie because they’re just different. Just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s bad. By that measure every naturalistic actor is “good” and everyone else is “bad” when really it should be there’s good and bad naturalistic actors and good and bad non-naturalistic actors.

Even then, in this instance Lydia should be a theatrical person. She’s a conductor, not a violinist. I’ve met people like that, someone at the top of their creative field. I have literally worked backstage on plays and orchestras. Go watch interviews of some of these people. That’s just how they are.

I thought Naomi Watts in MULHOLLAND DRIVE was a interesting twist in that I thought she was terrible for most of it until I get to the last 15 minutes and everything changes and I had to revisit the movie and it changed my take on Watts, given the context, and I thought it was a brilliant performance but that only worked because of how the movie ended.

Lebowski and ghostbusters

>There hasn’t even been a non-binary actor that I can think of that would ever even be up for an Oscar anyway,

There was - and the main twist of the movie was spoiled by the oscar category they were nominated in. Check out The Crying Game.

At least God's Not Dead was unintentionally hilarious

It was a commercial success which is what matters

I can't wait to see this.

lotsa people remember that movie—haven't watched it in forever but I bet it holds pretty well, what with all that's happening rn

It's a very cold movie. Not that it matters but I found the absence of background music a problem, even if done purposefully.

> dude’s going to explode once his Joker makes a formal Batman debut.

Possibly earlier. He is in the new WW2 miniseries that Spielberg and Hanks are producing, similar to Band of Brothers and The Pacific.

Its on Apple TV tho and not HBO. Due this spring.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2640044/?ref_=nm_flmg_unrel_3_prd

Also featuring the fella who just recieved praise for his performance in the Elvis Bio-flick and other really good young talents.

Damn, I'd actually just looked up his birthday a week or two ago.

A fascinating career. Not only performing as the Gill-man but also directing the underwater sequences for Thinderball and the Thunderball remake Never Say Never Again.