The girls take his clothes off for him, main character reaches for his clothes, clearly uncomfortable, and the girls physically take them out of his hands and go “no”. Like there’s no reasonable way you could explain to me that it was consensual.
I find it really really REALLY odd that every single review of Almost Famous simply does not acknowledge the scene where the main character experiences statutory rape and shows clear verbal and physical language that DOES NOT communicate consent. And it’s framed as a positive.
Ali Arikan unsurprisingly probably has the best review and critique of The Odyssey (that I've read so far) while telling everyone worried about its "faithfulness" to Homer's text and worldview to...kick rocks.
https://t.co/66XKcPNCYy
Anyway, very fun movie. Beyond the bigots who think art should be as closed off as their own worldview and minds, I never get the people who complain that adaptations are different from the book. They’re supposed to be. “It’s not how I imagined” is not a point of criticism.
D-tier personality type: person who goes “Okay, it wasn’t THAT funny” when you laugh at something. Would you like me to pull the gun out and shoot myself in front of you, would that be funny?
Sam Neill (2025): “It’s not a happy place, America, and I wasn’t happy there. I’m interested in the condition of America now. It beggars belief what’s happening there now. When you hear a slogan like Make America Great Again, it makes a sort of weird sense because America could be great again, but at community level. Not with sort of strange billionaires making weird decisions”
Hard to feel like Norway haven't been completely hard done by. Between conceding a goal that touched the skycam, to having a goal ruled out for a 50/50 challenge in the box, to awarding Pickford a foul after he bashed into his own teammate...some very bizarre decisions today.