Honorable mention to Steven Soderburgh’s Solaris (2002). I think it plays as a distilled remake, rather than a Hollywood dumbing-down of Andrei Tarkovsky’s ambitious and memorable classic. It also reminds us that Soderbergh was casting Viola Davis long before she broke through to the Hollywood elites.

Anderson just produced it, it was directed by Corey Yuen who is actually a competent action director/fight choreographer (The Transporter and Jet Li’s Fong Sai-yuk movies among others).

I like his terrible action movies, though, so while I feel bad for Monster Hunter fans, this will probably pick me up for a couple hours.

That...does look at lot like an Alien game. Any word on the gameplay? Isolation was not my cup of tea.

You didn’t have me until the last line, but I do agree with that. Those movies are FUCKING TRASH and actually worse than superhero movies by miles (especially Prometheus, which is a downright offensive trash fire of a movie, which I’m pretty sure lowered my IQ by like 5 points), but at least they’re not fucking boring.

I roll my eyes whenever Ridley Scott decides that we need more backstory for Alien. Haven’t we been down this road twice before? But I will watch his gonzo prequels until he stops making them.

We’re being asked to put public health above our personal needs. It sucks. But every time you make a choice that priorities your own needs, you’re increasing the risk not only for yourself but everyone you are still coming into contact with, including a lot of service employees at the grocery store and other essential…

Christ. Hasn’t DC figured out yet that letting every director and actor “put their own stamp on” their characters over and over again isn’t gonna produce a cohesive success in the long run?

Nope. I had just started dating someone new when social distancing went into effect. And we hadn’t gotten beyond meeting in public places, although I think (I hope) that things were about to escalate.

I wasn’t crazy about Dr. Sleep, but I’ll watch whatever Flanagan makes. I’m curious what would happen if he adapted Lovecraft instead of King next time around. 

Bahahahahhaha. I love how close she comes in that interview to telling the truth: “I shelved the book because even I know it’s terrible, but people might finally be bored enough to read the fucking thing.”

I’m looking forward to the original projects that Waititi makes between his entries in Disney’s forever franchises. And I’ll probably watch his Star Wars movie because who am I kidding? 

I took a sick-day for non-COVID reasons, and it was the best decision I’ve made since all of this started. No cough, but I am sleeping (or fantasizing about sleep) basically all of the time.

Spirited Away is for the non-fan, Castle in the Sky is for the fan.

You are making me feel super fucking old, because I played FF6 in middle-school (and called it FF3), but that game has charm to burn. The amount of expression that they manage to squeeze out of those little sprites is still impressive, and the opening sequence has that wintery melancholy that lingers even when the…

They should release a game that is all crash mode and call it Burnout 2020. I would buy that shit at warp speed.

I haven’t seen that one. How does it rate on a scale of one to essential?

When it came out, the wilderness sequences felt like a breakthrough for the series, a preview of the wide open maps of the later games. And I also liked the miniature democracy that formed at your base of operations, a more inclusive version of the larger nation forming around you. It seemed like a way to comment on…

I just reached the Marauder boss in Doom Eternal. Instead of clearing my mind, achieving the Dark Souls Zen State, and prevailing over time, I yawned and turned it off. A tricky boss at least needs some fucking charm, you know.

As far a Satoshi Kon films, I prefer Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress to Paprika, which strayed too far into the bizarre to keep me engaged in the story.