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In role-playing games with predominantly white players, even with the most intricately built worlds there is still a lack of connection between the cultures they play in and the way they play their characters. The characters (and people playing them) are untouched by the world in which they exist, with most of their

There’s little need for supernatural horror with Climate Change. The natural consequences of our own actions and inactions are going to be so much worse than anything we can dream up on our own.

The crew’s two indigenous members...wonder if maybe it’s all an omen that a mythological dark spirit like a Chenoo or a Wendigo is soon to arrive (as a side note, Fessenden had previously made a movie called Wendigo in 2001, so it’s clearly a topic of fascination for him).

I don’t know what it is, whether its the compositing or color grading, but something makes this look cheap for some reason, it doesn’t feel like a big budget show, instead feels like one of those old direct to video type things like forward unto dawn, etc...

There is another factor here: those animations are a big part of how players get to know characters. In the long stretches of gameplay between the scripted scenes, body language is everything. So would it make sense for Alloy to suddenly have a different gait?

I remember that a lot of people complained in 1999 that TPM was too talky, that the Galactic Senate scenes reminded them of C-Span, but how much of Endgame’s first 90 minutes or so are just one kind of exposition or another? Or really, any superhero movie or big genre adaptation from the last twenty-odd years?

I kinda felt like a rubicon had been crossed when Fellowship of the Ring came out, because the movie doesn’t really set up the main plot until about 90 minutes in, at the Council scene, and by that point, in 2001, most movies were rolling the end credits.

The complaint that blockbuster movies nowadays are too long has been a standard gripe for awhile now, and so common that it’s become stale and annoying on its own. I want to acknowledge that I know this, and agree with this sentiment, and yet I am utterly powerless not to say Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson’s

I imagine Microsoft has been waiting to buy either ea or activision for a while just looking for the opportune moment and the bludgeoning their stock price took motivated both sides to come to a deal quickly.

The conspiratorial part of my brain now wonders whether Microsoft was fanning the flames of the Activision controversy to bring the price into their range and create a narrative for their massive reorganization of the publisher. It’s just as possible that they are simply taking advantage of the disarray to advance

(Exorcist III has its fans but it’s a very dull-looking movie to me, that bland late ‘80s/early ‘90s horror aesthetic.)

The project shares the same hippy-dippy countercultural misreading of the source material as John Boorman’s failed LotR adaptation (not to be confused with the Beatles project — they wanted Kubrick), which had Gimli burying himself in the ground to trigger his race memory in order to figure out the password to Moria

Didn’t Carpenter play some role in making FEAR 3? I thought his relationship with games wasn’t only as a player.

As much as I love that clip, I actually have to criticize Affleck’s interpretation. Just because someone can engineer a rocket, doesn’t mean that they’ll do as good a job on a piece of drilling equipment.

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Affleck’s commentary track is a treasure, and you can hear him working out this whole schtick. When Bruce Willis walks on screen: “the NASA nerd-o-nauts don’t understand his salt-of-the-earth ways.

It’s surprising. Rodriguez was experimenting with green-screen ages ago on Sin City. That movie has aged in strange ways, thanks in part to Frank Miller’s deteriorating reputation, but at least on a purely visual level it’s pretty impressive stuff.  So I expected him to thrive in “The Volume.” But it all came out

...to compare Guy Ritchie with Quentin Tarantino is like comparing a pond to the Atlantic ocean. Sure, they’re both bodies of water but one is absolutely not like the other.

I dunno’. Antonio Banderas has been doing the kind of schlock and straight-to-video stuff that makes me think he would do a CW show as long as he didn’t have to commit a lot of time.

This sounds like a fun project for Rodriguez. On the other hand, he used to make awesome pulp movies like Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn, and now he’s making television for Disney+ and the CW. And I think that is less an indictment of Robert Rodriquez than it is a sad commentary on the careers open to people like

What about...making it Zorro: Batman Beyond-ish, except live action and with Antonio Banderas as the old/retired Zorro character?