And the Republican party has some members of LGBTQ community (ever hear of Log Cabin republicans)... and blacks, Latinx, etc. Caitlyn Jenner is a card carrying member of the republican party and endorsed Trump. Extreme example: there were even some slaves who “liked” slavery (emphasis on quotes because there’s a vast d…

No mention of Walter Simeon and The Great Intelligence?

I was thinking about NOTLD, though using it as an example is complicated by the fact that the public domain issue led to a massive theatrical distribution of pirate copies at drive-ins and low-rent independent theaters. So it wound up having a massive theatrical release, too, that helped cement its status.

Same thing with Its a Wonderful Life.  It would not be what it is today without TV rebroadcasts when the copyright lapsed.  The key to a work’s longevity is availability.  If you guard how a film can be accessed, you will just kill off the interest in seeing it.  Availability is key, not WHERE it is available.  

To be fair though, the only part of WW84 I really liked was Chris Pine geeking out about pilot stuff. If Jenkins could bring that energy to an X-wing movie, it might turn out okay.

It’s not that she’s “destroying her reputation”, but that there’s a hedge of goodwill from Monster and the first WW that makes us all willing to think that WW84 was a fluke. It’s just that her recent remarks about the state of streaming cinema are starting to eat away at that because they’re coming across as “My art…

What bothered me most about Wonder Woman is that they were afraid of looking like they were copying Captain America, so they switched out the WWII origin for WWI. Which, fine, but instead of taking the opportunity to depict a much murkier, more morally ambiguous conflict they end up telling a straightforward “good…

It’s not working as a model for establishing legendary greatness.

Truth. It was mediocre at best, and the “let’s set it during WWI instead of WWII so we can seem different and avoid comparisons to the first Captain America movie, but let’s make the villains basically Nazis anyway” thing irritated me. And then WW 1984 came out and everyone was so upset because it sucks, and I’m…

Oh, it got a lot of attention. Mostly due to WW raping a dude because she magically had Steve Trevor steal his body.

The movie was just bad. It didn’t have the same cushion that the first WW did because you had two fun DC films come out with Aquaman and Shazam unlike the total Debbie Downer films the preceded the…

I’m so fucking tired of this complaint though. The issue isn’t the size of the screen, it’s that directors put so much visually confusing CGI jump-cut orgies in the final cut that unless you’re seeing it on a screen 20 feet tall, you’re never going to be able to keep track of what is going on. It’s like everyone…

“All of the films that streaming services are putting out, I’m sorry, they look like fake movies to me. I don’t hear about them, I don’t read about them. It’s not working as a model for establishing legendary greatness.”

On the other hand... not dying!

Well what else do you do on a Tuesday?

And Howard Johnson’s! And the AT&T depicted was the original pre-breakup AT&T, not the current AT&T (which is really just an overgrown Southwestern Bell that renamed itself AT&T in 1994).

I like 2010 the movie, but I thought the book was brilliant.

If you’re going to tell people that Arthur C. Clarke predicted the internet, then you probably ought to remind people that the first prediction of the capabilities of an Internet is generally attributed to Murray Leinster, in his 1946 short story “A Logic Named Joe.”

The C evidently stands for “Criswell.” We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives!

“I also predict that every household will own a small convection oven known as an AirFryer, perfect for french fries, onion rings, and reheating pizza.”

But there was no switch.