Oh, not that Cheers. Man, that was a weird moment.

I don’t think that’s a fair evaluation of his career. Smith was given every opportunity to “make it” as a legit filmmaker after the Clerks breakout. He was gifted several major studio medium-budget movies. None of them connected with audiences or critics. He was fired from multiple franchise projects like Superman and…

The passage of time was always going to make him irrelevant, as he was making movies just moments before high quality video cameras were built into everyone’s phones.

His Gen X audience needed him as an example, but subsequent generations never would.

The world is full of people whom time has passed by who seethe about…

Clerks 2 didn’t flop???

So Smith’s creativity has fallen so low he’s now just doing the same “meta” schtick that was his last film.

IMO there aren’t really toxic fandoms, just a lot of toxic and shitty people out there. The more popular a franchise is, the more likely it is that toxic and shitty people will like it. And articles seem to only really focus on what the toxic and shitty people do because it gets people to click. 

We here at the Life and Times of Tim fandom are accepting of all. We only have one rule: never interact with the other members.

“She hasn’t got the depth or gravitas to play the part”

The people who are running their mouths off implying race is part of the weak character writing should get blasted accordingly. But the folks who are criticizing based solely on the character’s likeability shouldn’t be lumped in with those miscreants.

Honestly, of all the random resurrections of shows this one actually could make a lot of sense if done right.

Excellent news report!

I work in the industry and I’ve been studying the evidence just to get a better understanding of 1) What happened and 2) how I and my peers can learn from it. Movie making has this veener of unreality. It’s all pretend so there is this complacency one can develop that nothing really bad can happen. Yet, it so can, and…

Ace of Base?

“why not wait for five years or something...”

I agree! Particularly with regards to the costuming and production design. Lynch’s various factions feel uniquely realized, with distinct cultures. There’s a same-y-ness to the Villeneuve version (which I like fine); the battle sequences are almost Marvel-esque in their anonymous brownish guys vs. anonymous grayish…

I meant rather the world of the movie. The Reeves movie verse doesn’t feel like something that would work with superpowered beings flying around.

If the report is true, this is such a bizarre time to start being messing around with the DCEU now as it is starting to hit a stride. Especially since those successes are built on allowing the movies have those distinct styles and to build their own worlds.

Making the DC movies it’s own vertical virtually guarantees that they will copy Marvel. Think about it this way: the new vertical will have executives and management types, who will need to do something productive to justify their huge salaries and not get fired. Normally for stuio execs that would mean “be a studio…

We had a solidified content vertical in our bathroom plumbing last year - the RotoRooter guy couldn’t clear it (still charged us though) and we had to replace the whole drain trap.

toying with the idea of turning DC into its own solidified content vertical.