The existential questions about the dog's existence ("why was its first life in the 1950s?") remind me of Dan Harmon on How Did This Get Made. They covered Jack Frost, a movie about shitty dad and blues singer Michael Keaton dying and getting a second chance as a snowman — "Wait, he came back?! This is proof of the…

Yep. If it didn't get released, investors wouldn't be able to write it off. That's the reason a lot of bad movies get in theaters at all.

I appreciate the follow up. I don't follow the comics scene at all anymore, so yeah, that struck me as tragic! The two of them are a beloved indie comics couple and seem like good folk, glad they're still around.

She's alive on Twitter and Instagram as of today, and no mention of her death anywhere.

I can't tolerate anime at all, especially 26+ episodes, but I find that I can skim through manga quite quickly. The art is terrible but no one is reading it for that.

Did you lie to me on purpose? That was very cruel.

Oh my god, really? Holy mother of, that is terrible. Wow. Oh god.

Yep, which is not surprising at all. (I haven't thought about Dork! since 2000 or so, wow…)

Titans were actually the only good parts of the Japanese live action films. If The Matrix pulled off that cool wire fu almost 20 years ago, I don't see why it wouldn't work now.

Hmm, I really disagree. I wish we could watch it together and talk about it! :)

Oh, just you wait until James Cameron's Terraformars!

It's not a remake of an anime, it's an adaptation of a manga. No one is claiming it will be better or worse.

You probably know this, but the manga is well ahead of the anime. Why wait?

Why wouldn't live action work? The manga is nearly all talk, and a lot of it is politics.

Attack On Titan 2: Oh, Don't You Worry, There's A Basement In The Third Movie

Do you really think it's all that ambiguous? The film is about objectification, using the visual language of objectification, written, directed, shot, and scored by men. In my mind there's very little feminine in that, and not really nuanced either.

I disagree that the Neon Demon is "feminine", and certainly not feminist (which you did not accuse it of). If Refn said it was a parody of male gaze, I'd be amused, but I see the film as hypermasculine.

The Village is not "good until the end". Bryce Howard was nowhere near good enough to lead that film. Adrian Brody plays a slobbering idiot that makes Rosey O'Donnell look like a great actress. Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt are wasted, looking and sounding every bit like community theater rejects faking their way…

It was like watching a very expensive commercial advertising no product, which I suppose paralleled its themes of beauty and body image. I felt those ideas have been much better explored, and not in the way of Neon Demon's wanting to have its cake and eat it — using impossibly beautiful young women to satirize…

If you can't separate art from artist, you're going to have a rough time engaging with a lot of culture.