Jason Reitman said a real dumb thing with some seriously shitty implications, emboldening a bunch of the worst kind of men. But he’s also made a career out of telling great stories about women, and collaborating with women on those projects. I don’t know. He goofed, sees that he goofed, and I haven’t seen any other indication that he’s the kind of guy who would actually agree with or knowingly enable the kind of gross misogyny he did.
I’m not interested in the project, but I don’t have trouble believing he just said a dumb thing and didn’t realize how dumb it was.
Edit: I do think it would be worth it to acknowledge directly why what he said “came out wrong”. Call out the sexism directly.
Even if that was the case, he hasn't actually addressed how or why the thing he said was dumb. You don't get a pass on that if you can't even acknowledge the harmful thing you did.
The Old Guard, a rad comic from Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez about a group of immortal mercenaries who stumble upon the first new immortal in centuries while on a job, is getting a Netflix adaptation directed by Gina-Prince Blythewood and just revealed Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne are playing the leads
Alita had like three climax-epilogue cycles in the ended that felt weird, but overall I loved it! All the action scenes were awesome. Black Knight eat your heart out.
Alita was a lot like Aquaman for me in that I felt they were both pretty badly made movies that I still had a ton of fun with.
Rushmore should've 100% ended with the protagonist going to juvie for attempting to murder his teacher and also sexually assaulting his other teacher jesus christ max is an asshole. what were we talking about
The two things that didn't make sense to me in Aquaman:
When Ocean Master revealed that he knew that Willem Dafoe was secretly helping Aquaman and Mera. Why did he choose to reveal that he knew at the time that he revealed it? He had followed Dafoe's advice through the entire movie right up until that moment, and there was no scene before it that indicated when he found out, so presumably he knew the whole time, but chose not to let Dafoe know that he knew until the third act climax for completely arbitrary reasons?
The whole deal with the Karathen and the trident. At first the Karathen is described as a terrible monster and enemy of the old King of Atlantis, but then later it's actually his ally/friend who guards the trident for some reason? Apparently the King thought nobody in Atlantis was responsible enough to wield the trident but doesn't give any reason in the film that I can recall as to why that is?
The two things that didn't make sense to me in Aquaman:
When Ocean Master revealed that he knew that Willem Dafoe was secretly helping Aquaman and Mera. Why did he choose to reveal that he knew at the time that he revealed it? He had followed Dafoe's advice through the entire movie right up until that moment, and there was no scene before it that indicated when he found out, so presumably he knew the whole time, but chose not to let Dafoe know that he knew until the third act climax for completely arbitrary reasons?
The whole deal with the Karathen and the trident. At first the Karathen is described as a terrible monster and enemy of the old King of Atlantis, but then later it's actually his ally/friend who guards the trident for some reason? Apparently the King thought nobody in Atlantis was responsible enough to wield the trident but doesn't give any reason in the film that I can recall as to why that is?
He called Dafoe out on it then because victory seemed assured
While Arthur and Mera still seemed like tangible threats it was worth keeping that in his back pocket but by then he didn't see the point. Because he is explicitly incredibly arrogant.
The King locked the trident away because its power, unchecked, literally sunk Atlantis as shown in the flashback. No one could be trusted to wield it so Atlan hid it with his trusted friend and over the thousands of years the Karathan turned into a beast of legend
The two things that didn't make sense to me in Aquaman:
When Ocean Master revealed that he knew that Willem Dafoe was secretly helping Aquaman and Mera. Why did he choose to reveal that he knew at the time that he revealed it? He had followed Dafoe's advice through the entire movie right up until that moment, and there was no scene before it that indicated when he found out, so presumably he knew the whole time, but chose not to let Dafoe know that he knew until the third act climax for completely arbitrary reasons?
The whole deal with the Karathen and the trident. At first the Karathen is described as a terrible monster and enemy of the old King of Atlantis, but then later it's actually his ally/friend who guards the trident for some reason? Apparently the King thought nobody in Atlantis was responsible enough to wield the trident but doesn't give any reason in the film that I can recall as to why that is?
He called Dafoe out on it then because victory seemed assured
While Arthur and Mera still seemed like tangible threats it was worth keeping that in his back pocket but by then he didn't see the point. Because he is explicitly incredibly arrogant.
The King locked the trident away because its power, unchecked, literally sunk Atlantis as shown in the flashback. No one could be trusted to wield it so Atlan hid it with his trusted friend and over the thousands of years the Karathan turned into a beast of legend
Why was keeping Willem Dafoe around beneficial to him? Why follow his advice at all if he knows that he's working with Aquaman and Mera?
If the trident is too powerful for anyone to wield, why set up an elaborate scavenger hunt to point someone to it?
The two things that didn't make sense to me in Aquaman:
When Ocean Master revealed that he knew that Willem Dafoe was secretly helping Aquaman and Mera. Why did he choose to reveal that he knew at the time that he revealed it? He had followed Dafoe's advice through the entire movie right up until that moment, and there was no scene before it that indicated when he found out, so presumably he knew the whole time, but chose not to let Dafoe know that he knew until the third act climax for completely arbitrary reasons?
The whole deal with the Karathen and the trident. At first the Karathen is described as a terrible monster and enemy of the old King of Atlantis, but then later it's actually his ally/friend who guards the trident for some reason? Apparently the King thought nobody in Atlantis was responsible enough to wield the trident but doesn't give any reason in the film that I can recall as to why that is?
He called Dafoe out on it then because victory seemed assured
While Arthur and Mera still seemed like tangible threats it was worth keeping that in his back pocket but by then he didn't see the point. Because he is explicitly incredibly arrogant.
The King locked the trident away because its power, unchecked, literally sunk Atlantis as shown in the flashback. No one could be trusted to wield it so Atlan hid it with his trusted friend and over the thousands of years the Karathan turned into a beast of legend
Why was keeping Willem Dafoe around beneficial to him? Why follow his advice at all if he knows that he's working with Aquaman and Mera?
If the trident is too powerful for anyone to wield, why set up an elaborate scavenger hunt to point someone to it?
Because it’s a fun adventure movie and silly elaborate scavenger hunts are great
Like if you're saying that a dangeously powerful Artifact being hidden away only to be found by those worthy enough to follow clues and pass tests that lead them to it doesn't make any sense then
You're basically arguing that a gigantic chunk of heroic fiction over centuries makes no sense because that's a pretty well established plotline
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The two things that didn't make sense to me in Aquaman:
When Ocean Master revealed that he knew that Willem Dafoe was secretly helping Aquaman and Mera. Why did he choose to reveal that he knew at the time that he revealed it? He had followed Dafoe's advice through the entire movie right up until that moment, and there was no scene before it that indicated when he found out, so presumably he knew the whole time, but chose not to let Dafoe know that he knew until the third act climax for completely arbitrary reasons?
The whole deal with the Karathen and the trident. At first the Karathen is described as a terrible monster and enemy of the old King of Atlantis, but then later it's actually his ally/friend who guards the trident for some reason? Apparently the King thought nobody in Atlantis was responsible enough to wield the trident but doesn't give any reason in the film that I can recall as to why that is?
He called Dafoe out on it then because victory seemed assured
While Arthur and Mera still seemed like tangible threats it was worth keeping that in his back pocket but by then he didn't see the point. Because he is explicitly incredibly arrogant.
The King locked the trident away because its power, unchecked, literally sunk Atlantis as shown in the flashback. No one could be trusted to wield it so Atlan hid it with his trusted friend and over the thousands of years the Karathan turned into a beast of legend
Why was keeping Willem Dafoe around beneficial to him? Why follow his advice at all if he knows that he's working with Aquaman and Mera?
If the trident is too powerful for anyone to wield, why set up an elaborate scavenger hunt to point someone to it?
dafoe’s skills are still worthwhile and of use to the kingdom, and/or allowing an enemy to believe their source on the inside is uncompromised has strategic value I’d say?
as to the second point that’s just like a kingly relic trope—as a dying king you always gotta account for the fact that someone truly worthy might come along for your accouterments or whatnot
Like if you're saying that a dangeously powerful Artifact being hidden away only to be found by those worthy enough to follow clues and pass tests that lead them to it doesn't make any sense then
You're basically arguing that a gigantic chunk of heroic fiction over centuries makes no sense because that's a pretty well established plotline
Yeah, I’m afraid “quest to get the thing” is not going anywhere as an adventure plot.
I heard really good things about The Souvenir from Sundance, and now A24 is releasing it, which is always promising. It stars Tilda Swindon, her daughter Honor Swinton Byrne, and I dunno, some other people. It looks absolutely lovely.
I heard really good things about The Souvenir from Sundance, and now A24 is releasing it, which is always promising. It stars Tilda Swindon, her daughter Honor Swinton Byrne, and I dunno, some other people. It looks absolutely lovely.
China has entered the cinematic space race. Wandering Earth, the country’s first blockbuster sci-fi film, is on track to be one of the highest-grossing films in China’s history.
The film has brought in more than 2bn yuan (£232m) in the six days since its release on 5 February, lunar new year. So far, it is the highest-grossing film released over the holiday season, a peak time for the Chinese box office.
Set in the distant future, the governments of Earth, confronted with annihilation from an unstable sun, have strapped thrusters on to the planet, ejecting it out into the universe in search of a new home. But as the Earth approaches Jupiter, a malfunction in the system puts it on course to crash into the planet.
Polar has some really dumb scenes for no reason. Like, the woman beater? He rents a room to a woman-hater for ko reason? And the the gratuitously violent fat man kill scene? It makes no fucking sense, isn't funny in any way and makes the rest of the movie worse with its inclusion. It could've been a fine movie but it's terrible.
I'm sorry, I really wanted to like it but it felt like the director was trying to be "edgy" with tits and gore. I liked almost every scene mads was in but everything else was rough.
Nobody is going to buy that the new Ghostbusters was an amazing movie
I wouldn't call it amazing, no. But I enjoyed it in cinemas, enough to buy it on BluRay when it came out and watch it again, and I still enjoyed it the second time. It's a good movie.
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I’m not interested in the project, but I don’t have trouble believing he just said a dumb thing and didn’t realize how dumb it was.
Edit: I do think it would be worth it to acknowledge directly why what he said “came out wrong”. Call out the sexism directly.
eat the blood-rich
This just makes me think of Richard Chase
Hell yeah I will watch that
I will
Alita was a lot like Aquaman for me in that I felt they were both pretty badly made movies that I still had a ton of fun with.
Rushmore should've 100% ended with the protagonist going to juvie for attempting to murder his teacher and also sexually assaulting his other teacher jesus christ max is an asshole. what were we talking about
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Like it was big, dumb flashy and had hilariously in depth ~lore~ but the plot beats were all pretty readily explained
The whole deal with the Karathen and the trident. At first the Karathen is described as a terrible monster and enemy of the old King of Atlantis, but then later it's actually his ally/friend who guards the trident for some reason? Apparently the King thought nobody in Atlantis was responsible enough to wield the trident but doesn't give any reason in the film that I can recall as to why that is?
While Arthur and Mera still seemed like tangible threats it was worth keeping that in his back pocket but by then he didn't see the point. Because he is explicitly incredibly arrogant.
The King locked the trident away because its power, unchecked, literally sunk Atlantis as shown in the flashback. No one could be trusted to wield it so Atlan hid it with his trusted friend and over the thousands of years the Karathan turned into a beast of legend
If the trident is too powerful for anyone to wield, why set up an elaborate scavenger hunt to point someone to it?
Because it’s a fun adventure movie and silly elaborate scavenger hunts are great
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Like if you're saying that a dangeously powerful Artifact being hidden away only to be found by those worthy enough to follow clues and pass tests that lead them to it doesn't make any sense then
You're basically arguing that a gigantic chunk of heroic fiction over centuries makes no sense because that's a pretty well established plotline
as to the second point that’s just like a kingly relic trope—as a dying king you always gotta account for the fact that someone truly worthy might come along for your accouterments or whatnot
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Yeah, I’m afraid “quest to get the thing” is not going anywhere as an adventure plot.
Aquaman rules.
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Southbound
Baskin
The latter two are fairly to very violent
it helps that is just an even dirtbagier horror movie groundhog day
to scratch a similar itch:
tragedy girls
thoroughbreds
the innkeepers
Ahhhh that music is excellent! That *looks* lovely.
I really just need to track down every A24 release and watch them all.
But definitely Blood Punch. it has a lot in common with Happy Death Day
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Man was it good as hell, Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant should probably win
This may be too obvious a suggestion
But have you seen Final Destination?
Netflix just acquired distribution rights to this, TBD when it'll be released on there but please please watch it when it is if you have the service
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Doesn’t seem to be available here yet, but I’ll keep an eye out. I’ll check out Tragedy Girls tonight, since I haven’t seen that yet.
I’ve seen the first three. They were ok, but I think I just wasn’t feeling them.
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Polar has some really dumb scenes for no reason. Like, the woman beater? He rents a room to a woman-hater for ko reason? And the the gratuitously violent fat man kill scene? It makes no fucking sense, isn't funny in any way and makes the rest of the movie worse with its inclusion. It could've been a fine movie but it's terrible.
I'm sorry, I really wanted to like it but it felt like the director was trying to be "edgy" with tits and gore. I liked almost every scene mads was in but everything else was rough.
they should definitely make a new space jam every 25 years
Enjoyable but disappointing in it doesnt really do anything with the set up left by the second movie
I wouldn't call it amazing, no. But I enjoyed it in cinemas, enough to buy it on BluRay when it came out and watch it again, and I still enjoyed it the second time. It's a good movie.