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Movies are definitely getting longer. The question is why? Ticket prices are the same. Budget/cost increases with longer films. If anything, you'd expect the market forces to be pushing movies to be as short as the audience will tolerate, rather than as long as the audience will tolerate (which seem...

RE Breaking Bad: I actually re-watched the whole thing with my gf a few months ago and wrapped up about a month ago. One thing I noticed was that the first couple seasons definitely had a "reliance on broad stereotypes of affluent suburban whites." This sort of changed toward the end. I do...

I think another factor that is lowering the quality of mainstream Hollywood films is technology and how it has affected our access to media. I'd argue that in the past 10-15 years, most quality drama has shifted away from cinema and moved to television. Character development and complex storytellin...

All-in-all there's probably 10 or 12 fan categories, each with sub-categories according to race, religion, potty-humor, predilection to watch movies in the first place and on and on. It isn't as simple as hitting all the quadrants. Of course you can break down the four quadrants into smaller subgro...

Stewie, stop what you're doing and start watching Breaking Bad . Not sure Stewie would like it. While he might last longer than I did (1.5 seasons before the boredom and idiocy overwhelmed the show's good points), I doubt he would be a huge fan, either. I didn't realize you lasted so long, for some...

Figured I would add another scene I wrote myself. It's about a green grocer in Arizona who got diagnosed with ALS and has decided to turn to nefarious means to make money for his family before he checks out. This is a dicey convo with his wife. Werner: Who are you talking to right now? Who is it yo...

I came up with another scene that may be applicable to some of the people in this forum. It starts with this men or women, humans if you will, sitting at a bar. Human on the left: I think the best economic way to heal our ills is by raising taxes to funding public assistance programs and support ne...

But Gordon's acting aside, the character of Maude is fundamentally shitty, and not one to look up to; she is a hyper-selfish sociopath. She victimizes and traumatizes innocent people throughout the film, caring only about herself. Portraying her as a paragon of independent living and a model to asp...

Women may have a natural advantage in that regard, as men may have in directing, including artistic direction. You think that women have a natural advantage in rangier performances? I've not heard that before, nor have I had reason to think it. As I'm thinking through this, I'm not sure I'd put eit...

I like giving Stewie a hard time as much as anyone, but the hypocrisy of his story is pretty damn clear, and anyone stating otherwise probably isn't being truthful. The liberal line is all about stopping pollution, cleaning up the air, living a healthy lifestyle, etc. All are wonderfully laudable g...