For
@GQSports
, this weekend I flew out for the GOAT’s debut and wrote about the scenes on South Beach and transcending mortality in the sunshine state.
guy at this karaoke bar in a full suit and studded coke white boots just dedicated his song to “the most important first responders in New York” and proceeded to do ghostbusters
jason momoa rules because most of his roles are just like “what if there was a dude who was fucking rad as hell” and you don’t really need range when you do that better than anyone
Thus far Raimi is the only filmmaker to get to the real core of Peter’s appeal, that being that he is poor and his life sucks and every win comes with two or three losses.
imagine directing your masterpiece, one of the great movies not only of the year but of the decade and reaching across cultural divides to tell a story simultaneously uniquely korean and universal, and you get punished for it by being forced to hang out with jimmy fallon
THE BEAR premiered around this time last year, coinciding with the anniversary of the suicide of one of my best friends. a lot of shows and movies rn pay lip service to grief and none of them have remotely approached the truth of the line “I lost track of time and then he died.”
People will say he didn’t tell enough jokes or whatever but losing his shitty pizza delivery job because he stopped to save a kid from being hit by the bus and ended up 30 seconds late is a perfect distillation of Spider-Man.
tweeting antivax shit six weeks before your tentpole superhero sequel comes out indicates a lack of self preservation instincts that should honestly be studied in academic journals
What's the wildest instance of someone calling something problematic on Tumblr you saw? I'll never forget the extended argument I saw in the replies beneath an HD photo of the inside of a pomegranate that started when someone said it should have had a trigger warning for gore.
Anyways Spidey 1 also has the best Jonah moment committed to film, that being when Green Goblin tries to get him to give up Peter and he no-sells it without hesitating.
“Vindicated” is the perfect song to close out a perfect Spidey movie because it is about the grace of somebody accepting you in that totality, not refusing to acknowledge those faults but rather accepting them because what good they see in you outweighs them.
my therapist changed my life when he taught me there are 4 types of conversation:
1) small talk (weather, etc)
2) swapping (you tell a story, I tell a story)
3) listening (you tell a story, I listen/validate)
4) problem-solving (you tell me a story, I help solve the problem)
If we can just get this part of the Twitter Discourse out of the way: you can totally have complicated feelings about someone and also be sad that they died at age 41 in a helicopter crash, leaving four children fatherless
becoming one of the biggest movie stars in the world and signing a deal with a high-end fashion brand only to turn around and make them make fucking Naruto merch is the biggest flex of the year and nothing you say will convince me otherwise, MBJ is the GOAT
there is nothing genre adults on here fear more than owning the fact that they like things meant for middle schoolers, and I say this as someone who attended a power rangers convention last year
it’s very funny to see people call the mildest elements of THE FABELMANS self-aggrandizing because comparatively if I made JAWS I would literally never shut up about having made JAWS for the rest of my life
Something I really wish folks on this app were better at distinguishing wrt art at large is the vast difference between “bad actually” and “not for me”
Few shows these days are this good without aspiring to prestige. There is a workmanlike quality to this show that stems both from the subject matter and the tight production timeline (it premiered six months after it was shot) and it stops the first season from
Anyone who had a part in publishing this on
@UPROXX
should be embarrassed. Four paragraphs whining about why he doesn't like a TV show before a cursory mention of a tremendous charitable gesture. Shameful hack work.
somebody is inevitably going to respond to this with “omg this isn’t even the craziest thing to happen on the bachelor!” first of all who are you second of all as someone who has never seen the bachelor I am fully confident in saying yes it is
*checks to see if the coast is clear*
*whispers*
I really enjoyed Ben Affleck's performance as Bruce Wayne despite it being marred by the films said performance was in and I'm bummed we won't get to see what he could do with the character under a competent director
@IowaGOPer
yeah damn it's wild because republicans have been so cool and supportive and thoughtful over the last few years and i definitely haven't seen relatives drinking out of coffee mugs that read LIB TEARS
So my new piece for
@HuffPost
is live. Writing this wasn’t fun and we spent a month and a half editing it. It sucks that it had to be written at all but I hope it contributes in some small way to this dialogue.
support small businesses during this difficult time if you can but do not let anybody convince you that it is the responsibility of the working class to keep any business or industry afloat when shit like this happens
Hey comics pros, what’s a moment at which you had serious doubts about whether or not you’d make it in comics?
I feel like it’s important for young creators (hi, me) to be reminded that doubt is natural and sometimes ever-present in creative careers.
It never feels treacly but also never delves into pessimism and is perhaps the only piece of fiction I personally feel actually understands the complexities of the sort of loss that lies at its center
the best and perhaps only good kind of famous person is the mads/Olivia Colman/Pedro pascal type where they work for decades, suddenly get a huge break, and you can tell they know the fame thing is bullshit and are just enjoying the ride while it lasts
Emily Hagins directed a zombie feature when she was 12 years old that shits all over this. If you need an AI module to be a filmmaker you just don’t have the fucking juice.
one of these days we’ll get around to talking about how encouraging men to reject gender norms and embrace a warmer and healthier masculinity doesn’t just mean commenting YES KING 😍 on IG posts of their painted nails and does in fact require you not say shit like this
At midnight it will be four years since my friend passed away. Tonight I cooked something for myself and I opened a bottle of Malbec and I’m finally starting the second season.
It is silly to say this about a wildly popular and award winning show but it feels like it was made for me and me alone, from the soundtrack to the subject matter to the Surprise Jon Bernthal
one more thing - the “grumpy old man” moniker wrt his critiques is both at odds with his reputation as a really lovely guy when talking about literally anything else and also implies that his words stem from unfounded pettiness rather than decades of experience and mistreatment
“big” dick Richie from Magic Mike extra extra large had given up on feeling loved and accepted because he spent over thirty years looking for a woman to settle down with and constantly found himself used for his body and then tossed away because his hog was just too big
i urge you all to be free. unshackle yourselves from the burden of pretending you like something made for babies for academic reasons and just own the fact that sometimes things made for babies are cool
I feel like at least once a week we all see an aspiring creator ask a big-name writer How To Break Into Comics and the answer is always "make comics" and yes, that is a true thing, and anyone who says otherwise is trying to shirk the hard work that takes, BUT...
put on my detective hat (knives out joke right there for eagle-eyed readers) and found them at the following retailers:
- target
- j crew
- literally anywhere that sells clothing
the amount of money i would pay to watch ben affleck at his justice league physical peak beat up joss whedon is the entirety of what's in my bank account right now
hate it when i am assigned to go undercover and infiltrate a group of criminals who participate in a countercultural extreme sport only to find myself falling in love with the adrenaline rush of the sport and succumbing to the allure of their charismatic leader
@PJaccetturo
@TannanJB
It’s wild how you’re being pretty flip about doing something an artist you claim to respect said he finds inherently disrespectful to both the medium he dedicated his entire life to and, as I’m sure you’re aware he said, life itself. Self awareness doesn’t absolve this endeavor.
The work these guys did for film, fandom (non-derogatory), and community in addition to giving some of the best artists in the game sustainable work is unparalleled and they're suffering the consequences of people losing interest in paying $12 for a plastic beanie baby
Tommy Wisseau is an actual honest to god Golden Globe Awards attendee in 2018, whatever your dream is this year just go for it, there's literally no reason not to at this point
its not news or anything but the Himbo Is Ableist discourse is the surest sign that weve really gotta make tumblr an amenable space for that kind of person again
don't mean to come at this person specifically and i get the sentiment but:
- There is. former CEO of IDW was making $400K a year. AfterShock basically stole a $90K option from a creative team. The money is there.
warren ellis directly or indirectly made a lot of our careers
every single one of us owes it to the women he hurt to interrogate that and, more importantly, to make sure he and anyone else who looks to do what he did doesn’t have a place here
One of my least favorite modern phenomenons is people who go to therapy long enough to learn the language to articulate the ways in which they’re terrible rather than actually work to change the ways in which they’re terrible.
wow so these are the messages jonah hill sent to his wife(now his ex). once again, Internet's favourite male celebrity turned out to be a huge misogynist.
Boy I didn’t know how much me and Vince staples had in common 😂 nooooo people ain’t just coming to my house mane 😭 I don’t even order Uber eats to my damn house
@YNB
pretty expensive cop car you’ve got there
would be a shame if someone were to
defund the police instead of making taxpayers pay for devices that are then used to mow them down like tumbleweeds
Uh, hey,
@TheAVClub
, this article you just published looks a little - scratch, that VERY - familiar. Right down to Katie Rife's echoing mine in writing. I'll send y'all my direct deposit info since y'all better be paying me for this shit.
For my (full-length)
@vulture
debut
@emilypheller
let me yell about underrated secret weapon/my
#1
celebrity crush forever. Friends, countrymen....the Hahnaissance is here.
Hey, are you an artist who:
- has sequential samples available
- likes drawing mechs and sad people
- potentially has room in your schedule for a big project in the next year or so
- (preferably) has experience working with a publisher?
If so, drop me a line, I'd love to chat.
I am unbelievably stoked to announce that I’m writing a book about my literal hero
@TheRock
for
@quirkbooks
! FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON is coming to you Fall 2019.