It’s funny that you even bring up Dracula, as it’s 32 years old and the last somewhat “good” film Coppola made. It’s all been awful since (I was never a fan to begin with) and I don’t get this idea that just because he made another middling to bad movie it should just be automatically picked up and distributed,…

There was a screenplay. What are you even talking about? There was 35 page screenplay for eight days of shooting that outlined the story and the actors were all given individual notes daily that outlined their characters actions and what they were supposed to improvise about. The characters’ backstories and…

Even on a union set, improving lines doesn’t entitle one to a writing credit. For instance, Christopher Guest’s movies are mostly improvised but he still gets the writing credit because he wrote the bones of the story and sets up the scenarios where the improvisation takes place and has to fit into. BWP was similar in…

While I feel for them this makes no sense:

Except they aren’t entitled to it legally. That would’ve have to have been before the film was sold, which they all agreed to $300K for (having no idea it was to turn into a massive film) and weren’t SAG. Contract done. Even if they were SAG at the time, they wouldn’t be entitled to any real residuals with the…

Uh, that’s not how SAG works. The production was non-SAG, yes, but the only way you can get into SAG is to work in a SAG, or SAG affiliated production. So, it’s not that simple for indie productions to get any union backing. Bear in mind, this was bunch of people running around in the woods, on a non-existent budget,…

“Cold fusion” doesn’t exist in the FO games. Stuff like Microfusion Cells and Fusion Cells are all “hot fusion,” require H3, need to be contained, and eventually run out, as opposed to (the scientifically impossible) cold fusion that would produce power indefinitely at room temperature without any significant…

Capitalism isn’t any more inherently rational than any other economic system or any less likely to fall prey to regular human foibles like greed, stupidity and outright narcissism. Hell, it has a penchant for rewarding them. I mean, currently Elon Musk is the poster-boy for that, but there’s endless examples of…

All the Overseers were frozen Vault-Tec employees, Bud’s Buds and in on the charade and the experiment between the vaults. The Triennial Trade, where the vaults interact, happens (obviously) every three years so, during the show, the shit is all hitting the fan at the same time.

As with the Vault 4 residents in “The Radio,” though, Moldaver and her people are just so unambiguously good here that it feels a bit like Fallout is putting its thumb on the scale for any final decisions Lucy might have to make. (Where’d Moldaver get those raiders from the first episode, by the way—and why? Everyone…

The games also have cloning, though from the show it seemed clear she was in cryosleep like Hank.

Yeah, it’s impossible to support the Legion, no matter how much the game tries to humanize Caesar if you go down that path, but the decisions regarding House or the NRC aren’t that clear cut. Prior to the show, New Vegas was the largest, and by far, the most successful post war settlement (now there were apparently…

Yup. That’s why it’s kind of comical that she somewhat posits herself as an anti-establishment iconoclast when Hole’s only successful albums were the late 90s version of turning grunge/wall of sound into pop music.

The Blair Witch Project both shows me how old I am and how someone watching it now would say this has been done a thousand times. I was in my 20's in 99 and watching the movie in a little theatre in Bishop, CA (I was out there bouldering) and it was terrifying and the audience was aghast. It was an experience. There…

It’s worth it just for being a piece of film history, just because you might as well see what catapulted the found footage horror genre into prominence. It’s actually much better than most of the contrived found footage slop that followed. 

There are simply jobs where you can’t be “basically incompetent” and an armorer is one of them. For instance, I’ve worked in nonferrous foundries most of my life, and now am an owner of one. Incompetence ends up being life-changing injuries or death. I’ve seen some god-awful shit, from a hand being cut off on a metal…

It’s not clear if the show and games are canonical with each other...

Honestly I think Pretty on the Inside is the best Hole album. At least it has a definitive sound (that was mostly because of Kim Gordon producing it I would assume.)

You’re misinterpreting that quote. She’s saying she doesn’t think that Swift is important as an artist, not that safe spaces for girls aren’t important. 

Coachella is awful and has been for well over a decade. People go just to go, not because they want to see an artist. After the early 2000's it became just a place you go as an IG “influencer” to take pictures. You ain’t seeing Tool, or Iggy Pop, or Bjork, or Siouxsie, Blur, Depeche Mode, NIN, The Pixies or even the Be…