the musician biopic, a trend that has gotten only more prestigious after Bohemian Rhapsody brought Rami Malek an Oscar

Presumably his lawyers are begging him to do just that, although not in those words (probably, though it’d be pretty funny if they did).

Wait, that was real and not something from Clickhole or The Onion? Dang...

...Frank Stallone?

I rewatched the MacGruber movie a few weeks ago and realized that you really gotta be on Forte’s wavelength sometimes to fully appreciate what he’s doing. (I’m not really describing that right, maybe more like you need to be in the right mood.) Luckily, that time I was.

I don’t remember enough to give an actual example but there’s definitely been a few times where I’ll hear about a band for the first time and then learn they just sold out some giant venue like Madison Square Garden four nights in a row.

I assume it’s also much dumber than whatever you were picturing.

Tarak (Staz Nair), a nobleman turned exile (whose animal-bonding abilities have been sadly discarded)

I saw it and forgot most of it, but did they explain in the first movie why anyone gives a shit about this remote village on a remote planet (or moon, I guess) in the first place, other than that’s where what’s-her-name ended up living? That place could not possibly provide “much of the Imperium’s grain”— it’s one…

Oasis fan, huh?

Obviously, multitudes exist in all people, but as played by Zendaya, Tashi seems like many different women rather than one coherent character.

Either one Cage movie, or only Cage movies.

Before scrolling down, I thought that the Nicolas Cage picture in the header might be from Pig (though I doubted it, because I didn’t remember him being coated in blood like that), and it wasn’t. But maybe it should’ve been?

Didn’t it start with The Matrix, the red pill / blue pill thing? And then being “redpilled” became a phrase after right-wing dumbshits started using it. I guess “___pilled” became a more generalized usage, though I don’t recall seeing it much. It looks weird as two words though.

Having just reread it, Tad Williams’ Otherland series (4 books, ~850 pages each). It’s unfilmable mostly in the sense of scope— a couple dozen or so main characters (both ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ versions of many of them, given that much of it takes place in virtual reality) and many more minor ones, a tremendous number…

Your mention of talking-bulldog cops reminded me of Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, With Occasional Music (his first novel), which features, among other things, a gangster kangaroo.

Anathem would a great miniseries but might have to be a longer one (or 2 seasons, I guess).

If you want unfilmable, try M. John Harrison’s trilogy Light, Nova Swing, and Empty Space. I’d settle for just Light.

Oh ye gods yes. Casting (for a live-action one, anyway) is crucial though.

I think I remember an interview with Banks where he said that was basically how he wrote it.