Ore wa Gundam de iku!

Spielberg is just too strong a craftsman to make a dull movie out of sci-fi escapism; I just kinda felt like his interest was more with the Rylance character, and he was kinda going through the motions with the actual leads.

And I couldn’t find Hook playing on cable nor any of the streaming services I had to watch it for comparison. I may pay the $4 and rent it because I’m now interested in how it could pander to audiences more than RPO.

“Oh well, people were just super racist back then” just never seems like a good argument. No, they weren’t. Some people were. Lovecraft was. But there were plenty of people who weren’t racist who lived at the start of the 20th century, and who spoke out against racism openly.

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.

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 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.

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.

Let’s not overlook another piece of the puzzle: Disney inherited this film from Fox Searchlight during the 2019 merger. And they don’t seem especially eager to support holdover projects.

The story is the singular reason why Other M is so reviled.

Going to lean in here and make note to anyone reading that the biggest criticism of this game is an entirely subjective one.

This janky-ass game really made my day during last year’s pandemic doldrums. I work in education, so before I managed to get vaccinated I really couldn’t mess around with public places. I had a lot of time to pour into an online campaign with my brother, who was also not interested in braving the nose-proud masses.

When I clicked, I was not expecting this level of into-the-weeds detail. Now, with all of this in mind, I’m probably still gonna get gibbed by middle-schoolers. The ravages of time have been gentler to Quake than to my reflexes.

Removing annoying emotes, limiting which skins can be used, and removing loading screen tips that talk about headshots would be a good start if Epic truly wants to use Fortnite as a tool to educate.

On most days, I think of Jack Antonoff as the Brian Eno of banality, who scoops up artists at a turning point and filters them through his far-edge-of-accessible pop sound.

“What’s next for me, it looks like, is [an] Alien series for FX, taking on that franchise and those amazing films by Ridley Scott and James Cameron and David Fincher,” he said.