To be fair, there were also a lot of challenges involving Covid safety and Muppets that required multiple being inside to work that didn’t help either. But, yeah this and Julie and the Phantoms being cancelled the same summer pretty much made me lose all confidence in Netflix.

Well yeah. That’s what happen when you got Whedon working on a script. 

I feel like I got a lot of targeted ads for this movie but that may be because the algorithm has figured DnD is the one sure bet for getting me to buy stuff off the internet lol.

Sounds like someone moved two post-its with “Stranger Things” and “Star Wars” on them next to one another on a board.

This doesn’t surprise me given it’s an Illumination film. I actually kind of like the minions movies, but only in chunks. They’re goofy and vibrant and look great and have the occasional great physical humor jokes but the stories are so paper thin that they start to get really boring about 40 minutes in. It really…

I’ve been saying “purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka” every time Din mentions he needs to find the waters.

Riker: Computer, end program.

Yeah my first thought was “Oh yeah creepy dudes will ruin this for sure.”

There was a RJ Trilogy, A Benioff and Weiss Trilogy, a Patty Jenkins Rogue X Wing, and now even a Taika Waititi film. All of them received some kind of announcement followed by nothing for years and then some kind of statement like “we’ve moved on to other projects”.  It seems like Disney keeps trying to attract…

Are you asking, in the year 2023, how a colossal fuckup can become president of the most powerful country in the world? 

If Legolas has done it in Lord of the Rings then be prepared for your players to try it.

The DM: I’m sorry, you wanna do what? (pinches nosebridge) Okay. Give me a sec. I’m looking up the rules.

Zootopia 2 makes me a little anxious. A movie about (animal) cops dealing with (animal) racism seems like a trickier subject than ever to tackle these days. It seemed like the first one was well-regarded for evening tackling the subject but a lot of its real-world allegories/lessons felt really weird upon closer…

Okay, and hear me out. But let’s say I want to drop a heist into the middle of a DnD campaign and don’t want to learn/start a whole new game. These anthology books have been great for that.

I would hope The Great North is getting a renewal soon too. That show has been absolutely heartwarming and hilarious.

Agreed on the boycott. I’m not sure the broader company will learn the right lesson if the game’s fanbase don’t show up to this. If anything, Hollywood loves to make the most bizarre excuses for why films underperform, from “People don’t like fantasy” to “It was too high concept” to “There was a woman in it and that…

Netflix: Oh, you like this show? It’s cancelled! We’re still going to showcase it on the screensaver that pops up on your tv though. Just to rub in the fact there are only 1-2 seasons that will exist on this platform and never get resolved.

Yeah but for similar reasons I could totally understand how a big personality like Johnson getting involved in stuff during a merger, where everyone is fighting to stay in the spotlight and make their projects/departments/streaming platforms seem relevant, would put a big target on his back. I imagine it’d be…

The biggest weakness of the new trilogy is that it feels primarily concerned with Star Wars, its legacy, and the fandom around it. Awakens is all about celebrating the best of the franchise, Last Jedi is all about interrogating the reverence for the franchise, and ROS feels like a sheepish return to what the loudest…

I kid you not. There were people angry that Murdock had casual premarital sex. Like was married to Elektra or something. Or because he was Catholic. I dunno. Weird stuff.