Asked myself the same thing about whether I was watching a 3d version, and I also had trouble discerning some of the voiceovers with the weird echo it had.
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Do the decadent shit whenever you feel like it, and then be low key and down-to-earth on the publicly known important dates when you know the masses will be watching.
James Cameron was basically the closest thing to the lesbian gaze in blockbuster cinema for decades, lol
Oh, she has tons of characterization, I just mean that the show sometimes costumes and shoots her in a way that makes sense for the character but has the side effect of being hot.
Shiv’s a little thirst trappy, at times.
In this case, it’s probably a bit of a design crutch. You’d think they could get creepy peekaboo humanoid shapes using the shoggoths, anyway.
Yeah, but he goes into their history and how their downfall came from not enough eugenics causing the more recent Elder Things to be weaker and dumber than the original ones.
Humans are wired to recognize and respond to the human form and distortions thereof. Most of the more recent Lovecraftian monsters I’ve seen tend to use the “alien monster emergent from a ruined human (or Garfield) form” template because it’s hard to make a sea anemone scary.
Carpenter’s The Thing was pretty faithful to the actual plot of the short story as well, though. There’s a shape-shifting alien they dig out of the Antarctic ice, it infects the dogs first, they can only kill it with fire, they can detect it by heating a blood sample since the alien’s cells will act to protect their… Read more
“A dark presence uses a well-intentioned alcoholic’s own demons to turn him against his loved ones” versus “Jack Nicholson finally gets the excuse he’s been looking for to kill his family.”
Some of these guys (Trump, Dominique Strauss-Kahn) probably think they’re god’s gift to women, but some of the others are clearly getting off on how repulsed their victims are.
Heard the zoomers are referring to the 90s as “the late 1900s.”
“Velvet or velveteen. A gentleman must know the difference.”
It would have been funny if they wrote it so that Florence Pugh turns out to have been a trad influencer in real life, who joined the simulation and had her memory wiped on purpose to make some kind of point, and that’s why her sexist 50s husband is a pretty boy who goes down on her all the time rather than, like,… Read more
Realistically, it will be the 2030s before we see a military conflict between China and Taiwan. China is just not ready, and they know it. Invading Taiwan will be a more difficult task than D-Day, and it will take them a decade to get to the point where they have a reasonable likelihood of success, and we will see all… Read more
I want Alan Moore and Grant Morrison to have a televised wizard duel.
Moore wrote a subversion of the superhero genre, but the problem is that to write even an entertaining subversion you have to accept some of the premise. Watchmen makes the point that powerful vigilantes running free would actually be bad for society, but it still has to buy into the idea that some people are just so… Read more
Frodo is the one who spends months carrying the ring while it is at its most dangerous. I think we’re supposed to count that towards his heroism; Tolkien tries to get across how damaging that experience was by describing how Frodo never actually fully physically or mentally recovered from it.
In fairness, Tony did try to get them some oversight, even if it didn’t work.
Bilbo/Frodo was like an 18th/19th century country squire, effectively the version of aristocracy that survived into the late modern period, whereas Aragorn and the like are the original medieval aristocrats. He’s definitely a rich guy with an outsized say in the Shire.