Also Also: That’s Oakland’s Chinatown in the beginning, and the tunnel they pass through is the same tunnel used for the chase sequence at the end of THX-1138.

Also it’s Ala-Me-Da, not Ala-May-Da.

I lived nearby when this was being filmed. We’d drive around the empty Alameda airbase on the weekends, trying to get peeks at what they were doing for Burlyman (the filming title). Security guards would wave at us to just keep on driving as we crawled past the hangars they’d renovated into soundstages The “freeway”…

I can deal with this movie being real dumb and not that entertaining. What always bothered me was the whole bit with the attempted rescue of Captain Amazing in his chair.

I unashamedly love this movie, but one thing that always makes me laugh is that it’s set in France, but everyone speaks with a dodgy British accent.

> If you’re more of a reading person, there’s a transcript below as well.

You must be real fun at parties.

Of course Donald Trump was there. Of course.

So many pearls clutched about this at the time, about it being sexist and male-gaze-y, all conveniently ignoring that the editor who oversaw this run and had final say on the script, content, and art was a woman.

The CEO of Otterbox donated $500k to Trump in 2020.

Y’know, I could see the subversive thing that Sucker Punch wanted to do, but completely failed to pull off. The ingredients were there but it just never came together.

Man, I’d totally forgotten about this and it’s genuinely great. The Muppet reboot was solid. Wish they hadn’t dropped the ball so hard on Most Wanted.

Spirit Island scales beautifully from Solitaire all the way up to 4-player co-op, with plenty of variance and new difficulty modifiers to keep it fresh. And that’s before you consider any expansions.

Spirit Island scales beautifully from Solitaire all the way up to 4-player co-op, with plenty of variance and new…

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It didn’t really click with it until my NG+ playthrough, but the other world-building that happens later in this level is really important too.

I remember when this came out, coming into this movie as a fan of Araki by way of Doom Generation just fucking wrecked me.

How can you write an entire article praising the story of Sword & the Stone but not mention Bill Peet?

Not just one of the first digital-to-digital DVD transfers, A Bug’s Life was also re-composited and re-rendered for the 4x3 full-frame version. They put a hell of a lot of work into this movie, it’s great.

Hey so, credit where due: I was one of the people who complained a lot when these went video-only, and I really appreciate that they’re text again.