“Barrows had previously claimed on Twitter that Avellone was “an abusive, abrasive, conniving sexual predator” who had attempted to sexually assault her after getting her “black out drunk.” Barrows told Kotaku in 2020, “He’s f****** disgusting, but he did not rape me. He assaulted me, 100 percent, but I stopped him.””

This may have contributed, it may have been the reception to TLJ, it may have been Star Wars fatigue, and it may have been a general disinterest in the idea itself. It may have been all of the above.

I was not suggesting that Harrison Ford, who we agree is 80, should have played the character in the film. To me, even though I like the film, the film should never have been made. It was unnecessary to fill out Han Solo’s backstory.

Sometimes we can only understand ourselves by testing the limits of our abilities. Yes, we may produce something ugly, but at least we have the capacity to reflect on such actions and products.

Audiences are likely to view an actor other than Harrison Ford in an Indiana Jones film as recasting. I personally don’t think there’s much interest in recasting the main incarnation of the character. Potentially, a spin-off could work, but I think even that’s hard sell.

I think what she is getting at is that Harrison Ford is a major (and may be the defining) contributing factor to the success of Han Solo and Indiana Jones as characters.

That might not be the issue with the movie in terms of its content; Alden Ehrenreich is a good actor and does bring something interesting to the role and character. The issue might be that audiences just aren’t that interested in the character without Harrison Ford (particularly a young Harrison Ford), which may be why…

Visually perfect, narratively dead. A real shame that this film is the first time Gotham truly came alive on the screen, but the story was one cliché after another, for Batman stories and for the genre. 

There is definitely going to be A LOT of renaming/restaging of locations, alterations to various characters, and probably a general restructuring of the story.

I imagine most of the movies will be closer to their Imaginationland and GOT specials rather than the feature they released.

Christine Chandler wasn’t the one who had a meltdown in Gamestop, that was an unidentified trans woman. And Natalie didn’t mock her, she described her behavior at the Gamestop location as “brutish, masculine, intimidating, bellowing like a drill sergeant.” The tone wasn’t to disparage the women, but to accurately…

Dear God

Guess I’m crazy haha

Am I insane to think the original looks more like Tom Holland as well?

As did I, but I went back to view that horror (I wasn’t sure if it was real)? Alas, it’s real and has induced an existential crises!

Considering all three of those movies more closely resemble psychological thrillers (important, considering they’er all heavily Hitchcockian), I would say the issue is semi-inadequate use of terminology. I say semi-inadequate because psychological thrillers are horror-adjacent, but they’re not strict horror films in…

Underwhelming experience, but overwhelming content? I assume that’s what op means for DA:I since that actually seems to be a common complaint from the game’s detractors.

I think at one point your argument was right, but imo the $60 price point is a non-issue. Most publishers release multiple editions of games now, and actively marketing the higher priced editions, and we’ve also seen a more diverse pricing range for games because of independent publishing and I suspect the various…

I totally agree with you. The issue with the abundance of time-consuming games doesn’t seem to have much to do with consumers not wanting compact experiences, it seems to be that publishers see a more potentially lucrative model.

The defining feature of the series at this point is how inconsistent most of the games are from each other stylistically.