Wesley Morris

You know, I think there's a, there's a tier of, you know, Joan Micklin Silver, Nora Ephron.

Like, there are people who are really good at doing a particular kind of thing that was never intended to, like, Walter Hill.

Dominate, Walter Hill, dominate the box office.

And so I don't know what it looks like because, you know, TV, those people used to come from TV.

And now TV and the movies aesthetically, they're almost indistinguishable from each other.

Mm-hmm.

You got me to watch.

There's a movie.

There's a show you got me to watch.

I would never have watched that show.

Now, I am confused about some things, though, Bill.

Like, for instance, I don't know what to do with the fact that Bong Joon-ho's first movie after winning all those Oscars for Parasite

was Mickey 17 with Robert Pattinson, a movie I enjoyed, really strange movie.

Nobody went.

Nobody went.

So I don't know if that's a marketing concern.

I don't know if people didn't know it was out there and they didn't know to go see it.

Well, it only worked for Avatar, right?

Yeah, and not for 20 other movies.

Right, right, right.