Has this ever proven to be true? I feel like people keep saying it to exaggerate the effect, but it was quite baseless. It just feels like people romanticizing and downplaying how racist folks were back in the day.

Look, are you saying that’s the only painting of Vigo The Carpathian?

If you value Scale and Aesthetic in your adaptation, then animation is usually the better choice. The gap between live-action and animation on this has narrowed due to major improvements in CGI, but animation is still better at really capturing a grand, fantastical looking setting and character design, and using the…

Mass Effect and Halo should both never be live action. Way tooo much money needed to do it properly. Just do a cgi movie like advent children.

I keep wondering about the economics of this decision. Over the last decade, things like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead have brought about a whole wave of big-budget live-action stories based on books, comics, and games with their own fandoms.

Having Iron Fist and martial artists characters only be Asian feels just as racist as making them white. It’s basically invoking the stereotype that all Asians are good at martial arts.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. A lot of people write this stuff...and then come to their senses.

That “friendly advice” at the end of the update is the kind of thing that many of us write, savor for a long moment full of angry fantasies, then delete because thrashing around like that in public is fucking embarrassing, whether or not it makes problems down the line. Still, the post could be a lot worse.

I think the problem is that the Eternals source material is lifeless and dull. I’ve read a bit of it, and even Neil Gaiman couldn’t really make them memorable.

I think a lot of it has to do with the very modern trend of crowning a given director after they’ve directed 1 film of note.

A luminous sunset over a character’s shoulder seems made for YouTube explainer videos to pause and comment that Zhao is “known for her use of natural light.” Call it the One Perfect Shot-ization of the MCU—the digestion and packaging of artistic style for global consumption.

The best case scenario is that Sofia Boutella takes the Netflix money and keeps taking parts in things like Atomic Blonde and Climax. 

Well, you say that. 

I always wondered “What would Star Wars be like if everything was in slow motion and set to one Leonard Cohen song?”

The Rashomon approach pretty much negates any ambiguity , as the two seperate “truths” involving the rape BOTH agree that one occurred . That was the one thing that troubled me ,as after the first account of the rape, I was dreading the woman’s version , because, who wants to see the same rape twice?

I went to the movies a lot this month. I’m vaccinated, I’m masked, my area has a pretty high vaccination rate, and the seat selection for online orders doubles as a way of checking whether the auditorium will be crowded. For me, a childless 30-something with no particular prospects of a world-changing discovery in my…

I’m going to watch this. But it will be hard to beat the original film series, which was just about the gold standard of unapologetic pulp filmmaking for around a decade. Underworld could never hold a candle.

And Metroidvanias doesn’t need to be sidescrollers, Arkham Asylum it’s a Metroidvania, that’s why I didn’t like Arkham City, it felt they really cut out the Metroidvania part of the first game.

You can write a great personal recommendation for a game without resorting to a title clearly written to piss people off.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox ranks much higher in the secret movie-dork listicle inscribed on my heart. And that’s partly for the deep creeping sadness under its gags and jokes. As the Bobby Fuller Four played over the credits, I felt immense melancholy while I was still smiling about the last run of jokes.