Perhaps not as good as the specific theatre you frequent, but probably better than an awful lot of them.

I don’t think he’s changed at all. To my mind, Scott has always been an excellent director on a technical level, but with little or no idea of what makes for a good story. That results in him choosing a lot of hacky scripts, and while he can still be relied on to direct the hell out of them, the flaws in the writing a…

I don’t recall if there was fellatio specifically, but Tell Me You Love Me (2007) was pretty graphic. Adam Scott got jerked off to completion on screen (with the use of a prosthetic).

She said the plot was worthless pornography

People do not hate the Acolyte for having a LGBTQ+ PoC woman lead.

It seems like this is what Martin had in mind

Where Winds Meet is described as “an oriental Wuxia open-world action-adventure RPG”. That sounds potentially cool — like a Chinese-inspired version of Ghost of Tsushima. A quick search turns up footage from last year backing that up (maybe a little too much, to be honest).

new religions and dialects are starting to form

The typical rule of thumb is that a movie’s global revenue has to double the production budget.

It definitely is supposed to be the same Max (or it was — I’ve not seen Furiosa yet, so I don’t know if that supersedes any of this).

For an Academy that has considered adding a popularity award in order to appeal more to “normal” audiences, an excuse to feature five of the most thrilling sequences of the year feels like it should be a slam dunk.

Not to butt in, but I think it’s just down to your use of “already”. By putting it against the 54 minutes, it suggests the 54 seconds is worse.

Parks and Rec also had a terrible first season, which probably limited how big the ratings could get.

No bloopers for these folks; in their line of work, as we’ve been quite carefully taught over the last two hours, bloopers get people hurt, or killed.

I think the line of thinking is one that’s fairly common in these kind of fanatics. A review that’s not unqualified praise is nitpicked apart until it can be dismissed as a personal attack. They’ve probably convinced themselves that they’re being reasonable and have space in their worldview for the theoretical existenc…

I thought your point was that you would be called a Nazi.

I thought it was the other way around. You keep people from getting raises by insisting it’s one season, but splitting into two parts, released months apart.

No, I got that too. She’s sure this is all part of his plan, and she’s almost certainly right. I hadn’t considered that it might be blackmail though, and I’m not sure I buy that — it’s perhaps more that she’s demonstrating that she has the intelligence to be a valuable ally.

It does seem notable that in the trailer’s placeholder image the two review quotes they’ve chosen to highlight are “fiercely original and deeply personal” and “a blasphemous Molotov cocktail of a movie”, neither of which suggest a movie that is actually good.

More importantly, Dune has cleared $600m worldwide and must surely be profitable, so Villeneuve probably will get the chance to make Messiah and finish his trilogy.