![]() ![]() We see this transition through the eyes of Manny (Diego Calva), a Mexican American hired hand who rises up the ranks of the film industry, crossing paths with Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie), a young starlet he’s infatuated with, and Jack Conrad ( Brad Pitt), an aging silent-film star in the Fairbanks mold whose days are clearly numbered. Which brings us to Babylon, director Damien Chazelle’s three-hour-plus-long journey from the silent era to the talkies in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood. ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Is Filming Season 11 and Entering a Strange New Era Shapiro’s whining about Glass Onion is unsurprising, of course, given that he counts himself among the weirdos who’ve tweeted for years about their hatred of Johnson’s Star Wars installment, The Last Jedi. Other stimulating critiques from Shapiro, who also experienced a great deal of trouble wrapping his head around the Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion anthem “W.A.P.,” included: “how many rockets has Johnson launched lately?,” something about “social justice warriors,” and griping about the audience being “actively deceived by the writer” because the film, which again is a murder mystery, contains quite a bit of misdirection. Shapiro took issue with the ways Glass Onion apparently posited that “Elon Musk is a bad and stupid man, and that anyone who likes him - in media, politics, or tech - is being paid off by him.” One of these white knights was conservative troll Ben Shapiro, of the Daily Wire and the Lollipop Guild, who composed a 17-tweet thread to his 5.3 million followers breaking down exactly why he despised the film. Since Twitter has transmogrified into a cult of personality around its erratic owner, Elon Musk, the Tesla raider’s acolytes rallied to his defense, carpet-bombing the film with negative write-ups online (a tacit admission they see parallels between Musk and Bron). ![]() ![]() Unfortunately for us, these three holiday releases also sparked some of the more embarrassing discourse this side of Licorice Pizza. Babylon landed with a whimper, earning just $3.6 million (despite an $80 million budget) in North America during the four-day weekend. Glass Onion immediately shot to the top of Netflix’s movies chart, as 35 million households streamed Rian Johnson’s whodunit within its first three days of release (presumably at the streamers’ parents’ house with motion-smoothing turned on). The Avatarsequel has already grossed $1 billion worldwide (“Don’t bet against James Cameron, yada yada yada”) while weathering the same tired critiques that it has for more than a decade - namely, that it’s made little cultural impact and is a feat of style over substance. There was Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s $350 million special-effects extravaganza featuring emo talking whales and Sigourney Weaver as a 14-year-old girl Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, a Netflix murder-mystery boasting Daniel Craig in exquisite fits doing his best Michael Scott-as-Caleb Crawdad impersonation and Babylon, filmmaker Damien Chazelle’s ode to Old Hollywood offering the sight of a coked-up Margot Robbie throwing down with a poisonous snake. In short: a trio of films, eagerly anticipated by the public, were made available over the Christmas holiday weekend. For those immune to the charms of Elon Musk’s Twitter™ - a Squid Game-like arena teeming with edgelords, crypto enthusiasts, men’s rights activists who resemble Pitbull, and daily spam messages touting “part-time work” - the current film brouhaha may have escaped notice. ![]()
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