But also, Avatar’s got a lot more competition. Not just the internet, TVs weren’t commonplace when Gone With the Wind came out. If someone wanted that sort of audiovisual entertainment, the cinema was the only choice for at least a decade. Plus, home video was even more decades away, so there was only one way to…

Given how they’ve talked about it, I suspect the show is really eight 90-120min movies, each cut up and presented as three 30-40min episodes.

It’s a bit more than that. Much of the art of stop-motion (traditional or emulated) is in choosing specifically what pose should be held in each freeze frame.

Yes. I think these days it’s as easy to do it all in the computer, but people have created physical puppets that can be manipulated to drive a CG figure.

CG can’t replicate the movements that make the cult classic film’s spooky realms come to life and make those characters who they are.

I know Kennedy’s the person who thought it would be great to start filming a trilogy that was supposed to be the culmination of 40+ years of storytelling and two other trilogies, WITHOUT ACTUALLY HAVING A PLOT FOR THE TRILOGY.

Rian, to his credit, saw that and rejected it, choosing to deconstruct the thing and push it in a new direction. But he is also a good example of the limits of Gilroy’s argument. Just because you are willing to break free and do something different, doesn’t automatically mean what you come with will work.

I was ignoring associate/executive roles already.

Sure, he chose to do it, but my point is that it wasn’t him injecting more of his style, it was him changing his style for some reason. I don’t know if it’s because it was his first time doing a direct sequel and he didn’t want to repeat himself, but forgetting about balance and “dialing it up to 11” is really quite…

[Kennedy] is one of the most accomplished producers in the history of the movie industry

The [W]aititi-ness overpowered the Thor-ness

Don’t get too excited, I can’t imagine we’ll avoid the parade of “Andor ending explained!” articles. I can’t tell if those are targeted at idiots who need everything spelling out for them twice, or at people like me who think “Wait, did I miss something in that utterly straightforward ending?” (to which the answer is…

Also, seems like a safe bet that anyone using the phrase “geek queen” in 2022 probably has certain opinions about the new Little Mermaid movie.

Don’t forget the supreme confidence in both opinion-as-fact and straight up falsehoods born out of (often willful) ignorance.

Grace Randolph is the worst.

More than just co-wrote Rogue One, he reportedly directed the extensive reshoots. It’s perhaps not to the extent of Ron Howard replacing Lord and Miller, but there’s a decent chance that the version of Rogue One that was released is more Gilroy’s film than it is Gareth Edwards’.

I read somewhere that they don’t officially have any rights to The Silmarillion, so they can’t draw on it for any story beats that aren’t mentioned in The Lord of the Rings (or the appendices), but the Tolkien estate has also insisted that it should all line up and has given them some leeway in order to make that…

They’re also visually stylish.

I did spell Lee right? It is 리?

People still can’t really give consent when the power imbalance is such that one person fears for their life if they refuse sex