It's longer than the entire Broadway show including the intermission.

Yeah, somewhere along the way "auteur" came to mean "talented artist" in the public imagination, which isn't what auteur theory states.

Auteur theory is still bullshit, though.

Cameron thinks Avatar is about how the native Americans are responsible for their own genocide, though.

"It should have been a fun movie where Joker goes on a rampage through Gotham and causes chaos" is a take I've seen far too much of. It's "Gandhi should have finished with him gunning down his opponents" levels of missing the point.

FWIW, I can't really agree with the "it's a genius depiction of mental illness and will be reappraised in time" takes, either. I just thought it was...fine? Not great, not terrible, just there.

There were people suggesting given the age of Bruce Wayne in Joker, that the Phoenix character probably wasn't The Joker, merely an inspiration for him. Harley showing up in the sequel would seem to refute this theory.

It's expensive, often less comfortable than my own home, and I like theatre in which the crowd plays a part in the experience,

This is why I don't understand the "big action movies need a cinema, small comedies you can watch at home" argument. My home theatre can replicate the big-screen action experience just fine, but a comedy with a crowd is immediately 35% funnier.

No? Words mean things. Enshittification is a deliberately driven business model, you're using it to describe random happenings.

Enshittification is a specific business model, not just "things becoming shit".

My understanding was that "millennial" was first coined to refer to those graduating in 2000.

Insecure much?

How is this franchise still a thing? One entry did surprisingly well 20 years ago, and somehow continued flops haven't dissuaded anyone?

When did the “Mission: Impossible” films become action movies?

Eagerly anticipating the author's next article, "Is it time for America to elect its first Black President?"