That’s poetry. You’re a marvelous writer, and this is so well-observed.

Another more obvious point to make is that if these HK films were lifting from Evil Dead, generally speaking they’d likely be far more overt and direct in their imitation, haha. We’d have had Anthony Wong in an exact copy of Bruce Campbell’s outfit or something, if it was deliberate!

Now I want an Old Man Mario game, where he comes out of retirement to save the princess one last time.

I’m one of those weirdos who thinks the 2013 remake is better than the original.

The Evil Dead also had a direct influence on a whole string of Hong Kong films, some involving hopping vampires and others more directly borrowing Raimi’s high-speed tracking shots and tree demons.

The fuck does “Lee’s Dracula is a preserve nightmare” mean? He’s been pickled and put in a Mason jar?

I’m the guy who thinks the Resident Evil movies are pretty great. The scripts are silly, but the action is wonderful, with spatial clarity and witty choreography. Paul W.S. Anderson gets a lot of shit, but the only action director in the anglophone world who consistently eats his lunch is Chad Stahelski. Once upon a…

If the film is about an actual film critic, which I begin to doubt, then the best guess after Pauline Kael is Kevin Thomas, who is the subject of an appreciative essay in Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation. 

Wondering how many people nowadays know who Pauline Kael was. Or how many people can mention the name of any movie critic.

The last contemporary Tarantino movie was Death Proof in 2007. For the Coens it was Burn After Reading in 2008. For Paul Thomas Anderson it was Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. For Wes Anderson it was The Darjeeling Limited in 2007. For Steven Spielberg it was War of the Worlds in 2005. For Guillermo del Toro it was Hellboy…

That’s bad enough but that they’re also trying to do the entire Secret Invasion plotline and inexplicably dedicating an entire TV series to it is truly bizarre, because that’s even worse from an “explain to parents/grandparents” perspective (well maybe not worse than incursions but...). Like why layer that on top of…

I think the big problem is that people aren’t willing to wait for the buildup anymore. Phase 4 is basically Phase 1 again, where the MCU establishes the new generation of heroes and a lot of the complaints I’ve seen are about the lack of an overall story despite the presence of multiple long-term storylines and the…

Abercrombie is British. I just attribute the ridiculous misanthropy to that and enjoy it as a near parody.

The fact that you don’t think best served cold is a good novel means your opinions are kinda to be taken with several grains of salt

Re: Crowley you mean John Crowley? I don’t think I’ve actually read any of his work but I probably should.

But perhaps what you mean is “non-literary”? Because yes - everything that’s valued in literary fiction (which is not the majority of fiction sold, these days, note), like good, believable characterisation, having to something to say about the world or people, telling a good story effectively and/or in an interesting…

I just read the profile. The tone seems less venomous than outraged and less outraged than simply befuddled with the thriving sub-subculture that has formed around Sanderson. The author overextends in places, stepping between the reader and the story in distracting ways, but the core point is true: there’s a big part…

The movie looked fine. Even the screen grab above that’s constantly been shit on since the trailer came out didn’t look near as bad in the theaters for all the shit it got on the internet the last couple of months. People just need to stop being jaded assholes all the time and enjoy things

I still find it perplexing that it is apparently Rowling’s tweets that ruined the franchise ... rather than the mediocrity of the writing.

Hearing that the game is a very bog-standard “AAA” release just makes the garbage people championing it to own the libs look all the sillier.