Oh, ok, you’re just trolling. Good job, you had me there. Pat yourself on the back.

Cannes is a weird crowd, and one I’m not a big fan off. One of my Top 5 worst movie ever won the Cannes Palme D’or.

Still repeating that “free world” propaganda uncritically, eh?

That’s highly debatable. The United States have serious structural problems and their status has a world power has taken hits in recent years. A healthy country does not get Donald Trump as President.

That’s the thing though - Germain isn’t that kind of guy. Germain is on of those people the studios invite to the premiere of their big crowdpleaser so he’ll give them a rave twitter review. He is very willing to overlook a ton of logic holes if the movie connected emotionally with him. If this was the Cinema Sins…

Honestly, I think the big factor here will be Nintendo. Japanese companies are famously incredibly protective of their IP and do not relinquish control of it easily. Which can be a good thing and a bad thing, depending on the team doing the movie. Good thing because they won't allow Hollywood execs to, as Del Toro…

Except... this is Germain Lussier we are talkin about. The man is extremely easy - if the movie is even a little bit satisfying emotionally, he will overlook every other problem in it to give it a raving review. Look at his review of Flash from last year.

I mean, not always. Sometimes they drink

Right now, going by the reviews colledted by RT, reviews seems to be divided in two camps: those who thought it was flawed but were won over but the uplifting message, and those who think the flaws ultimately cripples the uplifting message.

Did it do the thing that every other movie do in that reel in crap where they have the interviewees insist you absolutely need to see this in theater?

It could be, if I got the sense the movie actually recognized what it was doing with Mae. But I didn’t get that sense at all. To me, it felt like the movie totally viewed Mae as having as valid a position as Noah, and the fact that these positions sometimes contradicted as an inevitable tragedy. And I also got a feel…

I can't edit, but Barbarian Invasion won in 2004, not 2024, obviously

Shoddy CG I could accept - Coppola is not backed by a huge studio here, so I won’t hold that against him.

That “A Fable” subtitle practically tells you everything you need to know, does it: Coppola has something very important and meaningful he wants to say through this movie. The real question is - is what he has to say really meaningful, is he gonna be another artist who highly overestimate how much what they have to…

I get the feeling about Wright, but I would point out reassuringly that Barbarella is not that established an IP - it’s pretty obscure and has pretty much been dormant for decade, so there isn’t a big incentive for the studio or the rights owner to meddle and “protect the brand”. So Wright will probably get as much…

That kinda felt like the Doctor making something up to me. Ruby mentionned the whole butterfly thing and how unlikely it is to happen and then it just happen? That's probably set up for something down the line.

Yeah, though I find the older ones did it better. Like, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” and “Escape from the Planet of the Apes” make logical sense in a way “Kindom” and “Rise” don’t.

Possible, but so far Marvel Studios has worked very hard to make everything they announce publicly a reality. The only movie they announced that didn’t get made is Inhumans, and even then something got made featuring that. So it would be a first for them.

Apparently, caring about Doctor Who, or any Western media in general, is sooo 2014 now, according to the whippersnapper I talked to this morning.

No, but it is from a show that was ostensibly aimed at children.