I’m sure everyone is working from the same script writing handbook that dictates writing character means jamming in some kind of Chekhov’s gun of character traits, but I’m starting to wonder if its becoming some kind of industry in joke to see how stupid of an idea they can set up for a forced pay off in the last act.…

Fortunate to have not seen most of these (Mute being the only exception, *sigh* Duncan Jones).

Its pretty much the Aquaman movie you’d expect from the guy who directed Furious 7, derivative, loud, overly long, and empty. There’s a lot of lazily stitched together story telling and tonal shifts, and most of the action is forgettable cgi nonsense but there is one decent fight/chase sequence (not a great sequence,…

I thought that too, in retrospect I think I must have just been conflating talk of the film being a closer adaptation to Kipling’s text with the idea of it being a more realistic film.

Your reasonable points are lost here, when I see someone use phrases like “I own him,” “you get chumped,” “I smack him down” its clear a) why they missed the joke and b) why they lack the humility to see the mistake even after its pointed out to them.

The show runner for Umbrella Academy was an executive producer on Legion, as well as a writer/producer on Fargo and Netflix’s Altered Carbon, so starting off on a good foot.

I really thought Spectre was going to pull a twist and reveal Belluci’s character was the one behind Spectre, and SHE would be our Blofeld moving forward. Instead we got the lazy retconning and random fraternal relationship.

I’m not necessarily one to insist on the sanctity of a movie watching experience but...the guy is watching this movie on an ipad outside sitting on a park bench!?!

The Russel Crowe Robin Hood originally started as a story being told from the perspective of Sheriff of Nottingham, which sounded kind of dumb at the time cause between Wicked and Maleficient it was just riding coattails on the villain perspective, but then a rumor started swirling that Christian Bale was to play…

I think you’re confused because PI hopped networks. PI started on Comedy Central, proved to be a popular weeknight staple, and moved to ABC. In search of another weeknight show to replace what had become a good anchor for the network, Comedy Central developed The Daily Show to replace it. The were never on Comedy…

I don’t think I’ve seen that one. 

I feel like the plus-sized girl in a rom-com positivity might be undercut by the film being a rom-com parody set in a fantasy alternate reality, like does it really do much for the idea of plus-sized women in romantic movies if you’re saying the only way to do it is by making it a coma-induced fantasy of the…

I’m suspect of this being real not just because they’re silly, but why would they release the names of all 4 movies upfront? Releasing the movie name is an easy piece of movie hype building pre-release, a smart release strategy would be to release the name of the next one and sit on the names of future sequels until…

Yeah, I remember during the 2016 Presidential elections, when the thinking was Hillary was going to win, people looking ahead to 2018 were noting that any 2016 democratic victories would be short lived, just because the seats that were coming up were not going to be ones promising to dems. There’s a lot of unfounded…

“That being said, we tried to dig just a little bit deeper than “Thriller” and the original Ghostbusters theme. If you want to pad out the playlist with some even bigger hots, Billboard’s got a list of the most commercially successful Halloween songs of all time here.”

But also, don’t overthink it, The Doors “This is the End” and Nina Simone’s
I Put a Spell on You” make good additions to any Halloween play list.

The same episode featured the neon sign from The Dinner Party, so while the plasma tv is a fun Easter egg, the seasons later callback aspect of it isn’t that surprising.

I’ll be sacrilegious and say I not only enjoy frozen pizza, but I enjoy it more than most chain brands. Local pizza joints around me are the superior option, but I’ll go with frozen pizza before I opt for a pizza hut or dominos. And to throw out two newish brands that are giving frozen pizza a good name, Screamin…

In one scenario a studio doesn’t have the rights and has to pay for them, and in the other they already have the rights (though, just to be anal, Sherlock is public domain). If a studio was remaking a movie it didn’t have the rights to, it would have to pay for those rights as well.

Typically screenwriters aren’t paid for remakes in any scenario, live action or not. There might be cases where the original screen writers, by retention of original material, earn a significant enough of a screen credit to warrant a paycheck (something like Gus Van Sant’s Psycho comes to mind), but generally, “based…