The movie CATS is like the Homer Car. Tom Hooper in this metaphor is Homer Simpson. The VFX people are the engineers. I suppose the producers would be Herbert Powell. The point is, they did the best job they could with a steaming pile of insane shit, and Hooper released the movie 2 weeks before they actually finished…
I notice that the presenter for best director was pointedly NOT Idris Elba in a nude suit saying, “Hey, remember a few weeks ago when a director thought THIS was a good idea? Ha ha! Anyway, Bong Joon Ho, here’s your award for making better choices than some directors. Boy, can you guys really screw the pooch…
Still, the Oscars are the top award in film making. There’s no other category of award that would ever dream of presenting an Oscar by referencing the Razzie winner for the same category. “Hey, acting is hard! Just take a look at Lindsay Lohan in The Canyons. Woof, that was terrible acting! Worse than community…
That’s waaayyyyyy more about how tight the deadlines are for VFX people than anything about their skill. The CATS producers scheduled the release of the movie over 2 weeks before the effects people would be able to finish it. Which is why, 2 weeks later, a new print was sent to theaters with accurate hands. Because…
So did Brightburn! But as Bojack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Madmen, Game of Thrones, Dexter, etc have taught us, there’s entertainment value in taking an old story and adding a sociopath, even if it’s been done a hundred times before.
The Mansons?
We’ve got a good list going here! I nominate:
If they are smart, this will simply be a nice sci-fi vampire movie, probably with Morbius dying at the end.
Physical copies degrade over time too. The plastic ages and crumbles and circuits oxidize. Everything dies, and if the things that replace it aren’t as good, then it’s only the fault of the engineers and developers, who in turn should have fruit thrown at them in public, and potentially be guillotined, if they happen…
After Return of the Jedi, one single, populated planet was blown up.
I’m a bit sad about the bumping up the timeline. Half the fun of the books was the greasy coziness of hanging around Dickensian/Victorian-era semi-London. Everyone wearing ratty velvet and bustles. It was gritty but fun. Whatever era this is supposed to take place in looks like... less fun. I’m sure, production values…
I am vaguely disappointed whenever someone I meet does not introduce themselves with, “My name... is Max. My world is fire and blood.”
The lack of pure comedy games might come from how games are set up: the player controls the main character. Any game that tries to make a joke at the expense of the player is treading on dangerous ground because people play games to feel powerful and accomplished, and humor undercuts that, and gamers are not known…
the 800-person team Bloomberg’s filled with former executives for Facebook, Foursquare and GroupM
I sort of enjoy how a movie for kids about space wizards inevitably turns into a story about sex slavery because of one guy’s commitment to “keeping it in the family.”
Under Palpatine’s military dictatorship, like under all military dictatorship, sex trafficking most likely blossomed. Naturally he partook.
Heh. I plan on renting it from the library. Ain’t no Disney gonna get my money off a bad movie.
Abrams and Zack Snyder are two of those directors who work looks best in Youtube clips devoid of context.
