Think there’s always going to be that factor that the age people watched them will impact on what they see is the best ones. The people who were at the right age for the golden age are now the ones writing the articles. 

Remember reading that for Seinfeld, the writing process works by having people pitching three story ideas - each involving separate characters that have to intertwine. These were then run past Jerry and Larry. If approved, the writer would go away and work them up with the help of the writer’s room. Jerry and Larry…

So basically, if Netflix didn’t make it, they won’t keep it around. Make’s sense, though. Netflix had to licence shows to get subscribers, but in the future it’ll all end up being Netflix created series and movies only. Disney will pull all Disney, Marvel, Pixar and possibly Fox stuff, the BBC might find a way to not…

Yeah, Muse is an obvious one. I was going to mention early Radiohead as well to an extent. But Muse don’t really sit within any genre or sub genre, straddling a number (rock, prog, glam, electro, pop, even a bit of dance) much like Queen did.

With the Foos? Don’t really hear that but there you go.

Queen are an odd one. While they were huge and loved by many they were so unique that they didn’t seem to influence anyone directly. They sort of stood on their own. Also, there are a number of excellent documentaries about Queen available that I feel would tell you more than this film ever could.

Where is the hill? I mean, it’s called Hill House and the book constantly refers to the overbearing hill that looms behind the house.

Assume the bent neck lady is a reference to the person who hung herself in the books. 

I get the feeling the Hiram has lost his edge. He’s been kicked out his old stomping ground as is worried he doesn’t have it when it come to being a gangster anymore, so he takes it out on his family and their friends. I think Veronica will end up killing him. End of this season maybe. Either that or he’ll get a…

Dan in Real Life is a good autumn choice. Goonies for some reason (the rain at the start maybe). Also, You’ve got mail - a bouquet of pencils. 

Poos booze

Think the issue with Halloween movies is that what made the original so good is hard to recapture. It wasn’t plot, or original characters, or special effects, just a great director working at his best. No sequel or remake will be able to get that back. There’s no new angle to the series that could meet the cold,…

Would love it if the whole film was shot in the black and white look the Instagram posts are in

Agree but think there’s this feeling at the moment that everything ever created in history can only be viewed through our very narrow window of time. Like we are the only ones that are correct. I’m not defending him just that we risk sidelining pieces of art because they don’t meet out specific standards of today

Ok, I get that these haven’t aged well in terms of how people are looking at them right now - but imagine if he’d written something someone today would have been happy with back then. It probably would have bombed.

I guess that counts as originality at Disney

There are better ways to tease something. The art of the teaser trailer has been dying for a long time. 

This is a remake of the Aladdin story as told by Disney - it’s not a racially sensitive, balanced retelling of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. This story is as much about race and prejudice and Dumbo is about animal conservation or Cinderella about class divisions. 

Agree but the argument is a little flawed in that none of these are original properties - book adaptation, tv adaptation, theme park adaptation. TBH I don’t expect original from Disney anymore - they own so much stuff now that it’s always just going to be endless brand recognition. 

These Disney live action teasers are all becoming very similar - swooping shot of key location or item (jungle, desert, slipper), then quick shot of key characters in action (but not main one). I guess they don’t really need to worry too much about marketing these though