I’m not as pessimistic as he is, but if you actually read the article he’s not wrong. He’s also not saying franchise films shouldn’t exist, but that there should be other choices. It’s nice he recognizes he is too old to say where cinema should go, and that the next generation will need to take those steps.

Personally, I think the root cause is that the studios are too risk averse. They only take chances when a vehicle has at least one big name attached, and they rarely give risks the support they need. Further, if one risk doesn’t pan out, they assume everything remotely like it won’t. Sometimes that one movie just doesn’t work out, but others like it could.

Oracle is nothing if not consistent in providing shitty customer support across all sorts of products.

I’m both chaotic good and lawful neutral, depending if it’s for my job or not. I suppose that’s a fair assessment of the difference between my professional character and home character.

That is exactly my point. It’s not worth asking because it doesn’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know. The ones employers ask are the same, though they want you to blow smoke up their ass about how it’s been your dream to write backend code for an insurance company since you were a kid.

I don’t like wasting time in interviews on questions or exercises that don’t help at least one party decide if the other will be a good fit. Unless you a hiring for a position where someone regularly needs to lie about why they’re engaging another party, these questions are rarely if ever valuable.

These are my least favorite questions, along with “what made you want to apply for this position?” I tried asking it back to a recruiter once (“why did you decide to contact me for an interview?”), and they didn’t really know what to say.