Not really. But a lot of people seem to think doing something big with your prep, or using make-up, makes you a great actor. Happens all the time. Look at Monster. Look at The Whale. Fraser is finally going to be recognised, despite his performance only being as good as every other time he takes to the screen. But we can't admit that. Instead we say that particularly performance was way better than all his others.

Hell, Ledger's Joker? Probably the worst role I saw him in

Nope. Sincere. I don't see what people see in Bale at all. He's good at what he does, and I'd even call it acting. But if you asked me if he was better than, say, Brad Pitt, I'd tell you he wasn't.

Oh yeah, Goldman has range. From Sid to Churchill.

>I didn’t pick up on the slightly crazy in Batman

Well now I know you're trolling.

And played them all as "quiet and slightly crazy plus makeup".

Christian Bale isn't much of an actor, imo. Just a guy who loves wearing make-up and changing his weight.

I suspect, however, that we have still yet to see the true range of Chris Evans.

Is it the movie makers fault that there are enough people out there that will always choose the charismatic douchebag? We've got lots of evidence that they do so with real people too.

Of the top of my head? No, it's been too long. But I do remember clearly it wasn't just about tiptoeing around feelings, but around truth.

Mamet is brilliant at exploring that.

It's interesting you point out how she plays with words...you don't think he is engaged in the exact same thing?

The movie sides slightly more with the professor but the script was written as having no good people. As time progresses, it's easier and easier to see the professor being more in the wrong, though....we are more appreciative of the power dynamic.

Edit: there's been some amazing stage productions over the years. I would have loved to have seen Rush/Blanchett production.

My point is that you would be doing it for the wrong reasons.

Because it adds to the problem I pointed out...it's just more advertising....

Now if you are sincerely interested in book reviewing while you decide on your next book, go for it. But I suspect you're not or you'd already started doing it on the side anyway.

Oh, I like that premise.

Thanks! I occasioned dip into horror though I'm mainly a crime thriller person. I'll check them out!

If you've got a rec, I'd happily check them out! The only ones I've seen have been from my recommended videos list, rather than sought out...which might be why they are so bad.

>People are reading

This the problem I have with this particular genre of short video media....I'm not sure they ARE reading the books they talk about.

Please don't.

Exactly. Not reviews bur advertising.

Booktuber, as far as I can work out, are people advertising books for free in the hope they one day get paid for it. Or am I missing something?

Well, it was an extremely popular IP, was simple to play on almost all smart-phones, and you could pick up and put down any time (an underrated aspect of games). Your casual, "non-gamer" user and hard-core gamer could enjoy it with different levels of effort.

I think we might see more RP games, especially using AR technology. Pokemon Go might be conserved an aberration at the moment but I suspect it was just an early form of what it around the corner. I think the rise of smart glasses (that we are seeing today finally) is going to play a role, indicating who are players, etc.

I sit on "new" when I'm bored. If you see a post less than a minute old with over a dozen upvotes...its a bot.

What are you sorting by? There's definitely bots upvoting a bunch of AI stuff across reddit at the moment. I'm not sure who benefits by it, tbh.

It should come in multiple parts... It was published as an 18 part serial.

You're beautiful, and I'm glad I opened this thread before insta-downvoting that heading.