Mazin and Druckman need to stop worrying about how adapting every detail of the videogame needs to placate the rabid fans. I can understand wanting to replicate and keep story scenes, major character choices, wardrobe and dialogue similar in order to capture the spirit of the game, but they seem VERY concerned that…

While I can appreciate this idea and I think it would’ve worked well, I gotta say I prefer them sticking to the game’s ending. I love the abrupt-feeling cut to black. It forces you to dig into your feelings and figure out how to feel about it for yourself.

I’m not sure I 100% agree. Parody isn’t inherently protected, it just by its nature is more likely to be successful under a claim of fair use, but it’s not guaranteed and fair use is a grey area. Copying another work in satire will more likely fail fair use because satire isn’t inherently derivative. The movie Don’t…

I love how "I like to do my own research" has become such a convenient shorthand for me to instantly dismiss the person saying it as a complete fúcking moron.

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I don’t remotely get how We Don’t Talk About Bruno became, apparently, an earworm. Nothing at all against the piece, which is a fine exposition song, but I didn't find it musically gripping at all. Surface Pressure is also my favorite from that film, but there are multiple others I also thought were more catchy.

Every last person I know who has seen Encanto has agreed that “Surface Pressure” is a far superior song than “Bruno”.

Where’s “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah?” “Poor Unfortunate Souls?” “Be Prepared?” “Prince Ali?” “Friends on the Other Side?” “You’re Welcome?”

Tale as old as time... “Beauty and the Beast” isn’t on this list, and I have some issues with that.  

Not to drag a controversial stance in to this...but what I liked about The Last Jedi was the little boy at the end randomly using the force to pull his broom over.

I feel like the obsession over her ability is going to cause people to overthink the show itself.

Emma Caulfield was in WandaVision & I think going to play the same character on the new Kathryn Hahn-starring Agatha show. Glad to see more of her. Anya was my favorite character on Buffy.

“SCC was the stepchild of the Terminator Universe and was never as well-received as even the worst movies were. “

The consistent trope is that Maverick, or more aptly Tom Cruise, knows better. He knew better than the geezers when he was a kid and knows better than the kids now that he’s a geezer. The hero knows best.

Several of the most recent Terminator sequels were trying different things.. they all did pretty poorly. I thought this movie (unlike those) was an attempt to return to the original formula, ala Maverick.

I think, at least IMHE, the article hit the nail on the head. It was a pretty good movie, it just couldn’t escape…

I think, particularly with Luke’s journey, that’s what the lightsaber symbolizes.

Having Linda Hamilton back was a treat. But I agree having Arnold back was unnecessary. Especially since the way they wrote him in was so. goddamn. goofy. It would have been better if the secret contact had been a new character, maybe someone tangentially linked to the events of 1 & 2 (Miles Dyson’s son is the obvious…

A lot of things could fix that. Put in a time jump of five or ten years. Leia has died in the interim, that saves you the trouble of a CGI cadaver. Rey is now a Jedi training Padawans on a planet untouched by the wars. New factions have arisen in the galaxy as the remnants of the First Order and the Republic become…

Just to clarify, TFA came out 10 years after RotS, so it’s not like it had been ages since the last Star Wars movie had come out. TFA banked on nostalgia because that and lens flares is about 80% of what Abrams can do with a movie.

Based on many decades of reading comics, it’s perfectly okay for a new creator to abandon “all the overarching plot points” of a story if they weren’t all that interesting to begin with.