I read something online just today that suggested people only dislike ‘The Phantom Menace’ because they’ve been told to, and really it’s a masterpiece. Which is certainly a take.

All true and fair, but there’s still always been that element of fantasy that people can kind of seem a bit too determined to strip away these days. True, Batman emerged in an age where crime and the mob were fixed presences in American urban life, but even at its worst you never saw people dressing up as winged…

Is this show being made on a dare? It's like a throw-away joke from Family Guy gained memetic sentience and wormed its way into enough gullible minds to see itself to fruition. As soon as the first episode airs, we're all gonna cry tears of blood.

Nah, I’m a public transport fabric kinda guy.

The Hateful 8 was just too much of a slog to me. There was no bright spot. It was just all nasty and, well, hateful. I guess he warned us. It was a huge low point in Tarantino’s career imo. 

Agreed. I like all of his movies, but some have way less interest on multiple watches. Jackie Brown and Once Upon a Time both hold up so well. I’d be very into getting more into the Once Upon a Time world. 

It looks to me like a close-up filmed with a long lens and a narrow depth of field. At one point, they have the focus on Diesel and The Rock’s ear is in focus but his nose is out of focus. It does funny things to perspective and the completely out of focus background adds to the impression that they are dropped into…

I have not watched the extended cut of Hateful Eight, because I don’t want to. That said, I would watch the shit out of an extended cut of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It’s the closest film he’s gotten to Jackie Brown quality in a long time.

Wild how EA gets shit on so much but Activision is actually Scum

I think it was more about the fact that he enjoys doing things he has some creative control over. Diesel started up a game company to make sure his stuff got the proper care - it didn’t pan out as well in the end, but at the very least we got a goddamn classic in Escape from Butcher Bay from it. By Fast 4 he had a…

Is this the game where Reagan is the hero?

Hard pass.

This assumes 1) that you live in a house, not an apartment 2) that the house has a room large enough for a projector to be practical.

Unpopular opinion but I hate Dwayne Johnson. Candy-ass? Oh my god, seriously? To me he is the embodiment of every mustard-headed meat freak but just so happened to go on a personal retreat to gain some “clarity”, which clearly didn’t stick too well because his answer to anyone questioning him is insults backed by the…

It doesn’t look green-screened to me, just really awkwardly staged and framed. The whole “I’m going to stand close to you but a foot to your right staring straight ahead at nothing to trade manly banter” isn’t tough or cool, it’s just fucking weird. It’s like they were trying to invent new levels of alpha male…

“It’s possible, but I doubt they’d ever completely write Diesel out of the series.”

One one hand, I don’t think it’s green-screened; if they couldn’t stand one another when it was time for this scene I imagine they would have filmed each actor separately and edited the scene together with reverse shots and stand-ins.

I don’t know, I think Vin Diesel is at least somewhat justified in his worry that they were going to push him out and make the franchise entirely about The Rock. There’s no way the studio wouldn’t be elated if The Rock, not Diesel, was the headliner of this franchise.

Not just that we are all slobs as we attend movies, but that the theaters wanted to be able to cut down the time it took to clear out theater, clean theater, load up theater for next showing.   To the point where they never really “clear” the theater, the high school kids with the brooms and pans have to run in as…

This feels a bit like saying “once I figured out how to go to the liquor store, I never needed to go to a bar again”. Sure, I can reproduce some pieces of it at home, but there’s an added experience of going to the theater that I find can’t be reproduced in my living room (especially after a year of being stuck in…

80s arcades did it first. Pac-Man fever played out on a cosmic space carpet.