I suppose part of the goal in making a Popeye movie is creating that awareness where it doesn’t exist and keeping that merchandise/brand train a-running.

songs written by Harry Motherfuckin Nilsson

...and he decided not to shoehorn in an actor who didn’t fit the prequel story he wanted to tell.

the Altman Popeye rips, ya joyless hacks

...or she knew playing a younger version of a character a dozen years later would be a tough sell and is cool with it?

One the one hand I’m a bit nervous about this being the first Mad Max movie that carries any sort of lore from another, and the increased reliance on CGI raises my hackles when I think of how Miller thrives with physical effects/props/sets.

I think the book gets away with it: Liu loads so many real scientific ideas into the book to give the reader concrete stuff to chew on, and yet deliberately elides the true nature/biology of the trisolarians. Their physiology and even the nature of dehydration is hand-waved with “we don’t actually know much about…

...is there something in the Star Wars brand bible that says every shot must have the widest depth of field possible? Andor is the only exception I can think of, but filming these things on stages or on the Volume really hedges directors into a lot of stagey-looking medium shots. I’m curious about the story and think…

Well now they can set it when they shoulda started!

People tuned in to GoT knowing where the first 5 books were going; but more pertinent is the fact that most people tuning in won’t have read the books.

If you’re one of the freaks who gave the $50,000 “what if Winnie the Pooh stabbed people” slasher a whopping $5 million at the box office, you legally owe the rest of us an apology.

I keep mentally adding an “e” to the title and thinking it’s a movie about a creepy hospice worker.

Heady? Everything I’ve seen of this show is giving me the opposite feeling; then again, the ads have avoided exposing much of what happens in the show and I won’t know if that’s from a desire not to spoil the story, or from a lack of quality.

I’m curious how the show will play out for me, but having read the books I do think that since the book slowly reveals mysteries and expands its scope, the show would benefit from the weekly discourse from everyone being on the same page. It’s kinda made for “did you see what happened last week?”/”What do you think…

The guy who doubles down on an insane perspective in the most provocative way possible? That a troll.

It’s interesting seeing the reviews pour in on Letterboxd; they swing between effusive praise of the sort above calling it bold and incisive to elide the political questions of the civil war, to deliberately provocative yet hollow and evasive in terms of what it’s trying to say, if anything. Gotta admit my mileage…

I went ahead and clicked through to the Variety article, which directly explains the script was leaked and apparently it “makes a point to discredit” the allegations. Sounds shitty!

I, uh, know I’m one of the guys fucking the planet, but like fuck those other guys fucking the planet, you know? The least I could do is some sort of global reach-around, right? [turns to Jess] Right? Get on that.

With both series the idea leads the decision to tell the story; as long as they’re not beholden to some pursuit of giving people what they want, I’m curious what idea/story would get them to return to that world.

The whole “I don’t know what’s so wrong with what I said I’m just a smol little guy who didn’t want to make people mad” is just another shade of “fuck your feelings,” and I’d love it to be recognized as such someday.