Mmmm well, isn't Avatar 1 the biggest movie ever?

No I don't. As I said, I bump into all kinds of people because of my work. One of my best friends has very different taste in movies than me. He is more of a mainstream guy and yet, no Avatar discussion. This is just one example. But no, no echo chamber since I really want to stop seeing Wednesday tribute dance videos. I have no desire to watch it and somehow I see a ton of people close to me reference it or talk about it.

It's not. It's just that for such massive movies, you usually see it trascend cinema and ingrain itself in pop culture. Most people, even those who haven't watched it, know about the misquoted line "Luke, I am your father" or know who Darth Vader is or at least that he is from Star Wars.

What fucker in the glasses? I haven't seen those memes. I talk about this because I do bump into very different kinds of people. I know I won't hear about Avatar from one of my best friends because he didn't like either, but I would bump into people asking me if I have watched Wednesday (I haven't) or whatever Netflix has released that week or whether I watched the recent release in theaters of a blockbuster movie, but I have yet to have someone ask me if I watched Avatar. I know the topic won't come up in my movie club because, you know, but at least I hear from other people I work with what new thing they're watching, even if our taste in media seems to be very different, but not this movie.

But we are not talking about the movie itself. We don't talk about the characters, or quote them, or do tributes or anything that indicates the movie is beloved. We are talking about why it seems to have no impact. I mean, yes, you talk in the lunch room why Karen from HR is such a bitch, but that doesn't mean that's the type of talk I wanna hear about myself

Me neither. I watched it once and I inmediately forgot about it. For movies I like I go two or three times to the cinema. I have yet to meet someone who has seen this movie more than once.

Sam Esmail knows what he's doing. This show has it all: killer cinematography, a superb soundtrack and score, delicious acting from amazing actors, a plot that hooks you from the start, memorable characters, innovative visual storytelling, a satisfying ending and incredible social commentary. Mr. Robot knew what it wanted to do and ran away with it. There is some growing pains on season 2 because season 1 was the buzziest show of the season, but the show is very good. One of my favorites.

That's it. It laid out mysteries through its run and it manages to answer many of them, while leaving others unanswered but that don't feel frustrating.

I was disappointed by The Leftovers. Some questions do need answers like how did Kevin get powers and what did it mean? With a show that finishes with a big question mark about the sudden departure, why bother introducing an extra layer of supernatural things and not explaining that. I am ok with no explanation about the sudden departure but to me not explaining supernatural Kevin felt like a cop out. Like Lindelof hadn't decided whether or not he wanted to give an answer about the sudden departure and gave Kevin superpowers, then decided for an open ended mystery, but it leaves Kevin's arc twisting in the wind. It's a good show that is frustrating because of its shortcommings

Dude... spoiler warning please. OP hasn't seen it

I am torn by The Leftovers. To me it has many of the Lindelof list of sins. It's a good show but insists upon itself. This episode, to me, feels like Lindelof showing off without caring much whether or not it serves the story or its characters. All three seasons of The Leftovers had three episodes I didn't like. This is one of them. I hated the three final episodes from season 2. Careful plotting and character building go out the window to bend characters out of shape to have a batshit crazy ending. Nora acting stupid when she is far from it. Characters not making phone calls and a long list of plot devices. I hated Assassin because it feels that it's weird just for weirdness sake and many plot devices were written without an endgame in mind (like Lost did), writting yourself into a corner, if you will.

I have no problem with weird shows and episodes. I love Mr. Robot and I feel the weird season two episodes work within the universe of the show. Not for The Leftovers. To me is Lindelof showing off. Again, this is a guy we know well bungles his writing for having no endgame for many of the things he writes. This is the guy behind Lost and Prometheus... a movie that clearly had characters acting dumb, introducing mysterious things without knowing what it all added up to and adding mythos that didn't need to be added and changing lore that didn't need to be changed. Watchmen is amazing but I think it has to do that the source material is batshit crazy to begin with.

It has been. It's been touted as the worst business decision ever

I think that it has to do more with being a first world problem. Voice assistants are a solution searching for a problem to solve. They really have no essential application for a great deal of the world population. Being able to say "Alexa turn the lights off. Alexa, turned the volume down" hardly screams to be widely implemented or has any essential application. If we suddenly lost voice assistants right now... like a glitch takes out Siri and Alexa right now... how is your life going to be impacted? Barely... like a minor nuisance. Add that privacy concerns in exchange of something that feels like a gimmick... the technology is doomed, I believe

It's the drinking. Some people just are mean drunk. Do not get drunk ever again. If you drink just limit to a drink or two and just state that you won't drink anymore due to what happened last time and just stop there. Do this friends drink a lot? Do you?

I see that you contradict yourself in your statements: "I am not mean, I am a good friend, I am a nice person. Don't know where this came from" and then you go on to say you have a history of violence when you were younger... or at least a history of being mean. So you do know where it comes from, and there's more from where that came from. In therapy go through this and the unresolved trauma because your inhibitions disappear when drunk and that's why your mean behavior came back.

As for your friends... you need to apologize profusely. Sit down with every single one of them. Go through the behavior. Accept responsability, say you are going to therapy to address that issue and you are committed to work on this since it was not ok and it hurt people you care about. Finally, offer restitution. How sre you going to make it right by the people you hurt? Maybe some dinner and just go through the whole process of... being in the dog house as it were, since your stunt hurt people. Just be patient with them and with yourself. You made a mistake, a big one but you are a human. Just try to make this right.

Fully agreed. We have seen what Star Wars can be. There's no going back

I never liked The Mandalorian. To me it was too damn simple. No plot, just cameos galore and "quest of the week" storytelling. I watched one episode of Boba Fett and three of Kenobi. I was done with Star Wars Disney. Gilroy made me believe again. There is no way Favreau or Filoni have this level of sophistication or creativity. We have been spoiled by Gilroy.

Andor and HOTD are two shows that had no right to be this good. Andor blew me away. The level Gilroy brought to Star Wars is amazing. I feel sorry for Favreau... there is nothing that will come close to Andor

He was definitely fucking mothers.

A dick with blue balls

Who knew this would be the next monster hit from HBO. First season was really good. Last night episode showed a lot of promise

2015 called and it wants its meme back