Yup. I was 13 when RotJ came out and I walked out of the theater muttering many of the same complaints people had about The Force Awakens - a mediocre retread of ANH with an emphasis on toys. Even Gary Kurtz parted ways with Lucas over his change in priorities.

Your daily reminder that you need therapy. Bob Iger set an unrealistic, aggressive release schedule by announcing a release date to shareholders before they had a script locked down. That scheduled caused the three films to have overlapping pre-production that further undermined quality (the scripts for VIII and IX…

Currently Hello Games has 28 people on staff, and they made a TON of money off Playstation pre-orders before the disastrous launch. As others have said, every time they release it on a new platform, it launches at full price so boom, more revenue.

The downside of Hello Games being so small is that as the game has…

Ok, I’ll amend my statement by saying she would have been outclassed by everyone but Temuera Morrison on set. :) Animation sells a lot of her vocal performance. Ashley trying to be angry and determined facing Lars as Thrawn in live action would absolutely fall flat.

Really? Because there have been some godawful D+ shows, I can’t imagine this will be worse than BoBF or Kenobi.

We don’t know if they gave Ashley a shot or not, but as a fan of Ashley’s voice work, I can say with confidence that she would have sucked as live action Ahsoka. I’ve seen her act, she just can’t bring the gravitas needed for the character via physical acting. There is a very good reason why her IMDB page doesn’t have…

It has breasts because it can (it is a Roger Corman film after all). As someone else mentioned, James Cameron designed it.

Within the film lore, it’s a semi-organic spaceship with a female AI named NELL, and the entire ship is essentially a stylized torso. That’s the late 70s for ya!

Tig Notaro as Flash is a movie I would actually watch.

Batgirl’s cancellation has nothing to do with a problematic actor, which was the point of the statement you are replying to. :)

It doesn’t have to make sense from a thematic standpoint (eg, why don’t they just remove all Willow content?). Movies, especially movies from the 1980s, have different payouts than episodic TV.

I don’t believe artificial scarcity is the driving factor here, it’s all about not paying residuals to creators to reduce costs.

That said, Disney, of all the streaming services, has years of data to validate driving up demand by intentionally making content unavailable. It was called the Disney Vault, and it drove…

You’re not putting the toothpaste back in the tube. It’s here, and it’s because gamers are, like all consumers, insatiable and fickle. The neverending quest for MORE MORE MORE realism and immersion drives a lot of AI development, and we’re just about at the “be careful what you wish for” phase.

Yes, all keynotes are heavily scripted bullshot, but I hate to tell you that the tech is REALLY close, and when it comes, it will improve faster than you can possibly imagine.

I was involved in R&D projects along these lines in the game industry over a decade ago, a few years ago I was even working a booth at GDC that…

Yup.

Overdub the radio show for what? Adams always embraced the differences between adaptions, and since the radio series predates the books, it’s the original text, so to speak. I know they had to edit out a Pink Floyd music sample after it first aired, but there’s no reason to make any other changes - the second season…

I take it you don’t know any aging goths personally. Once you reach a certain age, if you’re still committed to looking spooky, you generally have a look you’ve settled into. Ain’t got no time to switch up your hair color ever other day, like back in the club days. My wife and I are 50 now. She has had the same hair…

“Disney announced the possibility of a Lake Nona campus nearly two years ago...Nothing ever came of the project”

Celebration attendees got to see Thrawn’s face. That’s why you pay for the tickets - only backs of heads for the plebs. :P

He looks better in motion, but the leaked iphone pics from the panel look disturbingly like Elon Musk.

Your comment is pure confirmation bias - “because I don’t care about handheld gaming PCs, clearly no one else does.” Yes, it is a niche market compared to traditional consoles right now, but the landscape is changing and the PC industry wants a piece of that Nintendo Switch money. Valve did a hell of a lot more market…

You sound like every publisher I’ve ever dealt with. Chasing lighting in a bottle is not a blueprint for success and Fortnite is an exception, not the rule. Also, don’t forget that Fortnite was a very different game when it launched...the moneybags only showed up after they pivoted to rip-off PUBG.

AAA publishers are…