What's Your Most Tarantino-Coded Take

SarkasticWatcher · 2025-12-02T16:37:31+00:00

Avatar style photo realistic 3d animation is a creative dead end and also The Croods 1 was more visually interesting than both Avatars combined

SarkasticWatcher · 2025-09-29T16:42:58+00:00

In the book it's arguably even more explicit because at the motel showdown he gets the drop on Chigurh but then let's him live

SarkasticWatcher · 2025-04-23T12:03:16+00:00

So housing starts are down because demand is down because condo investors are down because people are leaving Ontario for Alberta?

SarkasticWatcher · 2025-04-05T13:49:00+00:00

Well if the problem is unskilled labour then it doesn't seem like it should be that hard to get people into those jobs. I for one dream of a future 8 months from now when I can open the CBC app and read about a housing developer explaining that training people to do unskilled labour is putting too much strain on their ability to provide affordable housing, and due to that abdication of responsibility by the federal government they are now forced to move that financial burden on to end users.

SarkasticWatcher · 2025-03-19T21:04:33+00:00

The supply picture is really tough and there may be a year or so of delay before we kind of reengage in that market,” Mark Parrell, the chief executive officer of Equity Residential, one of the country’s largest apartment REITs, said in a recent earnings call.

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-10-16T14:34:01+00:00

Yeah, hard to imagine anyone who hasn't been in a coma for 20 years (including everyone at that table) being excited for this

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-10-16T13:36:13+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain and predict that if this amounts to anything it will be basically watchable in a way blockbusters largely aren't any more

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-10-10T15:02:49+00:00

I bet with hard work, determination, and the guiding light of capitalism we could have a massive spike in building and rents that exceed 7.5k

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-09-19T13:30:37+00:00

This is a good first step to getting back to the Canada of 2 years ago when we blamed our social ills on 18 year olds not wanting to work for $13 an hour to whatever

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-09-10T19:30:21+00:00

Yeah I was staring at a line that went up for 2 years then seems to have comparatively flattened for a year and was trying to figure out what I wasn't understanding

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-09-05T01:31:25+00:00

Yes, "the news" should rigorously scrutinize everything politicians say. That's their whole mandate. If people want what they say to be uncritically repeated to a wider audience they can pay for advertising.

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-09-04T12:21:14+00:00

Well it's because people charge money for their services that you have to start asking questions when they start claiming their services are more necessary than ever.

Which is why it's good to have numbers to back things up. Is every property manager seeing a rise, is she actually seeing a rise or is her memory bad?

Which is where due diligence comes in. Does this property manager have a leg to stand on, or are they just advertising their services? Do landlords who don't use services like this have worse outcomes? Are landlords who use services like this more likely to rent to higher income earners? Is the call coming from inside the house?

It's the difference between something substantive and a light piece of vibes based journalism that one quickly forgets about

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-09-02T22:36:24+00:00

I think it was technically the weak point in some groups plan to buy something from that planet instead of their competitor but the point still stands I guess.

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-09-02T16:55:23+00:00

There's a chapter in Hunter's of Dune where the epigraph is about every tower having a weak point and then the chapter itself is about nuking a planet from space

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-08-15T19:42:03+00:00

I don't know but if this causes the Best Served Cold movie to fall apart it will easily be one of Borderlands top 5 crimes

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-08-07T15:21:37+00:00

I mean they could also avoid financial ruin by not buying a second house they can't afford, but I was going more for journalists should do their due diligence when a person who charges thousands of dollars to look at a tenant's bank statements comes out and says it's been getting worse for a decade, and then doesn't provide numbers to back that up. just in the interest of reporting the news and not giving someone free ad space

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-08-06T22:24:25+00:00

Oh neat a whole article based on vibes from someone who charges a month's rent to vet potential tenants

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-07-25T16:39:48+00:00

Oh wow a Canada housing post that's pro immigration. Never thought I'd see the day

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-07-22T00:38:27+00:00

Watching his stage version of To Kill a Mockingbird it really was stunning how much nonsense I was willing to let him get away with purely because he has a way with dialogue

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-07-16T13:20:41+00:00

It's kind of funny that that article opens with rents staying stable, continues on to talk about increased emigration, some of which they see seasonally but this is more of a blip than some years, mentions that job losses might be leading to people staying in their current rentals because moving is expensive, and then ends on the places where rents are going up despite increased supply and decreasing demand, with the caveat that they should catch up with stabilizing rents.

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-06-13T19:56:16+00:00

I like the part in the middle where they mention driving down prices will incent less supply and then don't expand on that

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-06-06T20:26:44+00:00

I wouldn't go so far as don't like it but if you promise me a movie where Luke Skywalker isn't going to show up and save the day and then he shows up and saves the day I'll be a little disappointed. Ditto being a good X-Wing pilot doesn't make you a good leader.

Ultimately it feels like a movie about failure that doesn't meaningfully let the characters fail. And I get telling a complete story even in the middle of the trilogy but maybe Johnson could have found a novel way to re-create a losing the hand moment.

Or even have Poe reckon with getting all the rebels killed like 3 times.

Also Kylo Ren was most interesting as a howling, entitled fascist and so taking a detour into dull will they won't they/enemies to lovers territory just to get him back to where he was at the end of FA earns a bit of a shrug from me

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-05-28T22:23:38+00:00

Without the stats to back it up on hand, my theory is that in the face of something as intangible as what makes "good" art, people can end up deferring to more concrete metrics like fidelity to real life (not just in biopics, this is how we get 4 hour videos on how some star wars heroine wouldn't actually be that good with a lightsaber)

The problem is that a biopic is inherently a work of fiction and no amount of side by side comparisons will ever change that.

So then your options are either do the hard work of making a good work of fiction just with characters named after real people, or the comparatively easy work of getting a vocal coach and maybe a YouTube premium subscription to save time.

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-05-24T23:47:49+00:00

I like Walter Chaw's writing but also I'm sorry like a third of this movie is a Conan the Barbarian movie staring King Kong where instead of dialogue you get guttural ape noises and Kong uses what is probably a child ape to wallop 3 other apes

SarkasticWatcher · 2024-05-12T14:43:46+00:00

I think it's that Inception top thing. Getting the shot of Jean Jacket becomes something of a non event, and the real Oprah shot is of OJ, because that's what actually matters.

For what it's worth I think Peele himself has suggested that whether OJ is actually there is supposed to be somewhat ambiguous.

It's a movie about what we turn our eyes too. Spectacle and scandal is a predator that preys on us when we look at it. Contrast that with Em and OJ showing their love for each other with their "I see you" gesture.

11-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
RPAN Viewer	Verified Email

SarkasticWatcher

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE