No, the work is in being a shithead.

“I said to my husband, ‘I think everyone is going to see this as a response to what happened to me,’ but it genuinely wasn’t. The first draft of the book was finished at the point certain things happened.”

Oh yeah, he was 100% pimping her out. But I don’t think he was necessarily expecting her to seduce him, he was just making sure that she was right there if and when the King wanted to fuck.

Or about how he’s against making toys of female characters for incredibly dumb and sexist reasons, like a boy might be disappointed by receiving a female action figure as a gift and turn into a serial killer.

Only seven years between Tomb Raider’s second and third iterations (Legend in 2006 and Tomb Raider in 2013).

It doesn’t even need to be an imperfection, just “knowing” that it’s a wig is usually enough to trigger a lot of people into insisting it’s the worst wig ever. Just like how “knowing” that something was achieved through computer-based visual effects often results in whining about how CGI is ruining cinema, regardless…

Are we still holding up Ritchie as someone who get knockoffs made in his image? His Ritchie-esque stuff has been awful for 20 years, whereas his studio fare has often been surprisingly decent (Sherlock Holmes, The Man From UNCLE). Not to mention, Matthew Vaughan made Layer Cake way back in 2004, and instantly…

I think your sums are off:
$216m + $58m = $274m
$94m × 3 = $282m

It’s not like superheroes killing is even unusual these days. The MCU generally doesn’t draw attention to it, but it isn’t averse to its heroes killing bad guys (Iron Man kills a bunch of terrorists, Thor beheads Thanos, Shang-Chi kicks a ton of people off of a skyscraper, etc.). And even in the DCEU, let’s not forget…

Well, they put out a technically impressive but otherwise inert teaser trailer a little while back. What more could you possibly want?

Uh, yeah, it doesn’t hinge on anyone — that was my point. The story of the incursions can be told with whoever’s available. It doesn’t even have to be a secretive Illuminati group.

The plot doesn’t hinge on them though. Hickman’s New Avengers can be summed up like so: the multiverse is collapsing and a bunch of very clever/powerful people try to figure out how to make sure their reality survives. It’s not a set up that relies on the presence of specific characters.

I think it’s a mistake that native speakers are more likely to make, because they haven’t necessarily studied the language (or at least didn’t pay much attention to those classes in school) and mostly picked it up through experience, so they’re just repeating structures they’ve heard without thinking about it (i.e. in…

I’m just saying that Spielberg has changed a lot over the last 40 years. 80’s Spielberg making Fantastic Four is a prospect worth getting excited over. Today’s Spielberg making Fantastic Four is never going to happen, but even if it did, it probably wouldn’t be anything to write home about.

To be fair, does anyone really think today’s Spielberg has the heart to turn out a fun superhero romp? His interests have lain in more serious fare since at least Jurassic Park, and when he’s attempted to go lighter over the three decades since, the results have ranged between slight and fluffy at best and Ready…

While there’s obviously artistry at work here and they’re making every attempt to convey mood, I often wonder about the point of some subtitles for the hard of hearing.

Agreed, GTAIV and RDR should be easy — port them to current gen consoles, up the resolution and frame-rate, maybe upscale some textures, and don’t overprice them.

Joker came in at #9 in 2019 — technically that might be a comic book movie, but in practice it had far, far more in common with Scorcese’s ‘adult-aimed’ output (albeit a subpar version).

That’s the point though.

Why would Netflix be bothered by an NC-17 rating? It was never going get more than a limited award-qualifying theatrical release anyway, and they can still hire the couple of screens needed for that.