I’m not sure why they scrapped all of Kang. Just recast Majors. They’ve done it before. Majors is a pretty gifted actor, but far from irreplaceable, and honestly his Kang was never that compelling to begin with, whether due to his own limitations or the material/directing/editing not being up to snuff. A new actor…

Worse than bad. Boring. Grey Man in particular... that movie should have started with the last scene and everything unfilmed that happened after.

Just finished “Under the Bridge” last night.  It’s great but should’ve been shortened by an episode or two.

There appears to be a mistake. I don’t see The Curse anywhere.

Everything that's interesting about Nettles is completely nullified by making her a Targaryen princess

Spoilers ahead so don’t read if you want none.

Aemond and Daemon are obviously meant to be parallels, and they're treated the same way in the text: the unreliable narrator paints them as self-interested loose-cannons, but if you actually examine their actions, they're both dutiful to a fault and totally committed to the cause. I think Daemon in particular is much…

Finally getting to the Dragonseeds! That should be fun, even if there’s only three more episodes for them to take flight. We’ll also be seeing one or more of the Sea Snake’s bastards pop up in the next episode, I’ll bet. 

This Aemond stuff is off-book and a bad adaptation choice: Aemond knows better than to deliberately take out a dragon and a dragon rider on his own side. He was happy to be prince regent, but seriously, this is bad character work and they’re lucky that Ewan Mitchell can make this all hang together. I also don’t…

“But as in the essay he published when his misconduct was brought to light back in 2017, C.K. doesn’t seem interested in atoning for his actions.”

This is a point I’ve made often as well. The Netflix model was good - everyone makes their stuff, screens it in theaters or on TV, then licenses it to Netflix as part of their second-run strategy. Everyone makes money and sticks to what they do well.

I would add that CEOs are all about maximizing short term profit (I may not be here in 5 years!) and if that means killing the goose that lays the golden eggs for goose meat now, they’ll do it.

Except that’s not totally true, because Netflix did almost single-handedly kill the home video market, which was lucrative enough to cause movies that bombed in the theater market, yet make bank on VHS/DVD, etc. sales, to get sequels that would make money both in theaters and at home.

“The premise of Severance is not good enough for a 9-episode, multi-season series, folks. It should have been a movie released in theaters.”

...what? my point was that young people are energized and excited about rep screenings and old movies, are actively seeking them out and learning.

Think I heard the defense say SAG rules don’t require an actor to check a gun, which runs contrary to everything I’d heard in this case up to now.

It’s sad/ironic/funny that they rush to replace the creative element of their industry with AI when the job that AI is perfectly suited to replace is theirs.

i’d even go as far as saying that advance ticket sales/pre-selected seats fucked theatres even before that.

“As Spiro pointed out, the biggest question in the Rust case remains: how did actual live rounds end up on a movie set?”

Executives and senior “leadership” in every industry are largely a bunch of incompetent sociopaths and morons. NONE of them “earn” their exorbitant pay and perks through competence and capable leadership.