I don’t think it’s against actors doing that, but in the movie Natalie Portman’s character is so desperate to humanize this pedophile, that she dehumanizes the actual victim and uses him as a tool to gather information for her own gains. I don’t think there’s really any humanity to Moore’s character, except that…

Man oh man is the public domain in the next decade going to be fun. Bela’s Dracula, Karloff’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, the original King Kong, Disney’s Snow White and all its iconic songs, the original A Star is Born, a little book called The Hobbit, plus Superman, Batman, The Joker, Dick Tracy, Popeye,…

My song “Yes, We Have ‘Yes, We Have No Bananas’”, which is about “Yes, We Have No Bananas” entering the public domain, is still under copyright.

Almost fully transitioned back to the Cable model again, lol.

Zaslav!

Inching closer and closer to the pop of the streaming bubble...

“doesn’t seem to understand how human beings in general work”

I don’t think the DCEU’s problem was the casting - for the most part (Affleck definitely included) it was good-to-great.  Which probably is part of the reason it was overall so very, very disappointing.

There’s a version of Man of Steel that can work. A version where the world is a little colder and more hostile than Richard Donner’s, where Clark is a little more unsure of himself and what the right course of action is. There are ideas there that can, with some nurturing and development, create a version of Superman…

Henry Cavill deserved director(s) of a Superman movie who liked Superman.

EXACTLY!

I think he can frame a shot just fine, but I struggle to find those shots gorgeous because they’re all gray-brown, washed out, and kind of ugly. I feel like he’s our best director at making ugly-pretty movies.

Or, maybe filmmaking shouldn’t just be a process of putting together a trailer. Anyone with a good eye can compose a bunch of pretty shots.

“While a movie like Past Lives”

Snyder is good argument against directors.

One can. Unfortunately Snyder is not that one. 

The key to imagining it is to remember that it’s only fascism when it’s people with opposite political beliefs in charge. When an authoritarian leader shares their ideology, then it’s I Can’t Believe It’s Not Fascism!.

Maybe it’s because I was in college and both a) young and b) perpetually drunk enough to appreciate 300, but Zack Snyder has built his entire career around style over substance. It works when the entire premise of a movie is “oiled up Greek dudes killing Persians in slow motion,” but the rest of his filmography is…

This ain’t your granddad’s Battle Beyond The Stars!