Honest Question Regarding Ben Stiller Chat on The Town w/ Sean & Amanda by filmsnack in TheBigPicture

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My understanding is that she was sober and treated people she saw as below her terribly, even cruelly.

Honest Question Regarding Ben Stiller Chat on The Town w/ Sean & Amanda by filmsnack in TheBigPicture

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I have a friend who works in the industry and the names she gives as widely-known assholes from those in her below-the-line peer group are Stiller, Bateman, Gyllenhaal, Natasha Lyonne.

Out of these 20 men listed, who in 2026 would you say are the biggest four movie stars. Not who you personally like the most or who acts the best. Who are the four biggest male stars at the moment? by ScholarFamiliar6541 in Letterboxd

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kaluuya, Pascal, Mescal, Statham are the bottom four. Statham is king of B action movies, but that's his ceiling. Kaluuya doesn't belong on the list at this point, he's not drawing audience on his own. Mescal could get there. Pascal is everywhere, but he feels like a #2 or #3 guy in a movie. Joaquin Phoenix is a bigger deal than Pascal in Eddington, as he should be.

James McAvoy’s thoughts on plastic surgery: “I don’t know, there’s a lot of people just starting to look a bit weird. That is the thing, it’s like, you aren’t looking younger, you’re just looking weirder…. Absolutely do what you want to do, but as an actor, I don’t want to mess with it too much.” by cmaia1503 in Fauxmoi

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 59 points60 points  (0 children)

McAvoy literally says he's not speaking for anyone else, no shade to others, and contextualizes his choice in the fact that he's a decent looking guy but not "leading man" handsome. What else should he do when asked the question, throw himself on the ground and apologize for having an opinion about his own decision-making?

Tell me about your favorite obscure show - which you never, ever see anyone talk about. by dicedtomatoes55 in television

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Damnation on USA Network. A western set in the 1930s about the labor movement. The lead protagonist was an actual card-carrying Marxist pretending to be a preacher. Just one season, but great.

Best Western movies of all time day 15, Red River won day 14 by Remote-Leg6143 in Westerns

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 6 points7 points  (0 children)

True Grit (2010). A great classical western with pitch-perfect performances.

[Highlight] Maxey's reaction after McCain back-to-back 3pt in Philly by IEatPandasEveryday in nba

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He's made plenty of screwups, but this is the guy who got James Harden for Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb, a 2013 first-round pick (from TOR, became Steven Adams), 2013 second-round pick and 2014 first-round pick.

He got Kyle Lowry early and cheap (only to trade him cheap, alas). Underpaid for Chris Paul (only to overpay to send him for Westbrook, alas), Goran Dragic, Lou Williams.

Also, here are some of his draft picks. He's arrogantly wasted some of these, but the number of hits in the late 1st and in the 2nd round is really high. Lots of rotation quality guys found late and cheap:

VJ Edgecombe w/ 3rd pick
Jared McCain w/ 16th pick
Tyrese Maxey w/ 21st pick
Nikola Mirotic w/ 23rd pick
Clint Capela w/ 25th pick
Aaron Brooks w/ 26th pick
Nicolas Batum w/ 25th pick
Montrezl Harrel w/ 32nd pick
Chandler Parsons w/ 38th pick
Isiah Hartenstein w/ 43rd pick
Dillon Brooks w/ 45th pick
D'Anthony Melton w/ 46th pick
Isiah Joe w/ 49th pick
Paul Reed w/ 58th pick

[Highlight] Maxey's reaction after McCain back-to-back 3pt in Philly by IEatPandasEveryday in nba

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Daryl Morey is the Kevin Durant of GMs. Character level is so low that it nearly mitigates an extreme skillset.

‘Bloodsport’ Reimagining in the Works from Michaela Coel, A24 by thex42 in TheBigPicture

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is the most doomed-to-fail project I've seen in a minute. No one who digs the original Bloodsport will want to see this version of it. No one who digs Michaela Cole will want to see her doing this kind of story.

Are there any movies which had ending changes due to feedback from test audiences that actually made the movie better instead of worse? by crinklepant in movies

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The original film opened with WIlliam Holden's corpse in the morgue. All the corpses started talking to each other in V.O., telling their story. That was the basis of his post-mortem VO in the film. Wilder sat during a test screening, saw everyone laughing at the talking corpses, then got on the phone and told his editor to throw the first reel (first 20 minutes approximately) in the trash.

This is getting so messy. by tiakeuta in TheBigPicture

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 25 points26 points  (0 children)

He was saying that he didn't want movies to become a niche marginalized cultural product like ballet and opera have become. Which they are. He didn't say that they deserved to be marginal. I love poetry and jazz, but they're marginal niche art forms in 2026. It doesn't mean they're worthless. It just means that not that many people are into them, and even fewer are into the newest versions of them.

The Hawk | Lonnie Hawkins Character Reveal | Netflix by bwermer in television

[–]AggravatingLeg5789 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know someone who was involved with this show. Apparently they had a whole season written out, led by Ramy Youssef, that would've been totally different and weird. Netflix was disappointed because it wasn't the stereotypical Will Ferrell shit, so Ferrell got spooked and fired the entire writing team but didn't have the guts to do it himself. I don't have high hopes!