This look like something 12 year old me would have adored. So you bet I’ll check it out.

December 1933, when RKO released “Son of Kong”, a sequel wherein the titular character is an unambiguous good guy who sacrifices himself to help humans. So pretty much from the start, Kong was seen as a potential good guy. As we learned more and more about gorillas and their intelligence, that potential just grew.

Exactly! Thank you! I’m still amazed how many people still refuse to understand this.

But the villain is still there though? You still have a bunch of movie with a villain named Cruella, and they still release a ton of merchandise for that version. So I’m not seeing any dumbing down, because the movie is not replacing anything. It’s a different version, that’s it. Just watch it as its own thing. You…

The Cruella in Cruella does not want to skin and wear puppies. As I said, it’s a different story. The character is called Cruella and clearly takes inspiration from the Cruella in 101 Dalmatians, but it’s a totally different world and story. So you can’t judge this version of Cruella for the behavior of another…

The Cruella movie is less “Cruella was never that bad” and more a What if/Elseworld tale with Cruella as the heroine. As with Maleficient, I feel these movies are so much better when you aproach them as a new story made out of existing building blocks, rather than a prequel to the original.

So, it’s your average Disney remake? Hyper-polished, slave to photorealism, with every rough edge sanded off, and a few token additions, but a handful of solid performances from the female leads will carry it to another billion?

Oh yes! Especially since aftwr The Boys, I cannot watch Jesse T. Usher and see his A-Train, his character from the show, and have a strong urge to punch him.

Devil’s Advocate: I indeed did not want to watch Jeff Goldblum. I wanted to watch David, his character for Independence Day. I liked that character. But in the sequel, it was just standard-issue Jeff Goldblum. I did not believe it was the same character at all, and that was a problem with me.

Also having the disc makes it so you can get things signed if you get lucky. My Warehouse 13 DVDs are signed, so are some of my Buffy’s. My Village people Compilation CD is also signed by a couple of the members of the band. And if Karl Urban ever did a con nearby, I’d absolutely get my The Boys and Star Trek Beyond…

I don’t know where you get this idea that there is no nostalgia for physical discs. I don’t know if you are just too young or too old but...it’s absolutely there buddy.

Anybody who believes for even one second that ChatGPT can replace a scriptwriter knows nothing about writing at all and their opinion should be automatically discarded as irrelevant...

And vinyls were dead and buried for 20 years, and now they are back in the mainstream.

Nope. They aren’t releasing any in physical form right now. Not even The Mandalorian, which would sell like hotcakes (the bootlegs already are!)

And this, people, is why somr of us still buy physical media when we can. Because that way, we at least have a tiny bit of control over what we can watch and when.

They said pretty quickly that the costume did not work out and would be changed. A redesign was never in doubt.

It so doesn’t work that they had to CGI it on. An interview came out at the time where they explained how they ran out of time to iterate on the costume and had to cheat. 

I don’t see how it’s bad in the first place. It’s just a thing that happens. It’s superhero comics - they produce 50+ stories every month. Unless a story falls in the very top or very bottom tiers, it’s just stuff that happens and won’t matter or be remembered.

Lol no. Commercial art is still art, buddy. It still has value as human expression. It is no more replaceable by AI forgery than any other fotm of storytelling.

Lol.