Cardboard boxes isn’t just a “whatever we had at our disposal” thing though. They’re widely used whatever the budget, because as long as they’re stacked correctly, they have the right levels of strength and give for a safe landing.

It’s not a one way route. If Pattinson started in the future, then at some point he travelled back to before his introduction into the film. Then he travelled forward until he met up with The Protagonist for the events of the film.

Does bathing the actors in purple not make it impossible to light them to match the conditions of the final shot? It’s certainly an issue in the example footage — as clean as the background replacement might be, the actors never look like they’re present in the scenery. But maybe that’s a limitation of the…

Having never read the books, I can offer no opinion on the quality of the adaptation — except to acknowledge that, given how long the series is, it was always going to have to make big changes in order to have any chance at all of reaching a conclusion. Taking 30+ years to put out 15+ seasons is obviously not a…

Agreed. The biggest giveaway is that they reply to everyone. They’re not engaging with the conversation in an honest way, they’re just enjoying it as a war of attrition — as long as they get the last word, they “win”.

This is spot on. I had a brief back and forth with them over the “is this woman racist for singing whilst wearing green facepaint?” stuff last week, and it was like interviewing a politician with a talking point to stick to, who just keeps making it regardless of what their actually asked about. They just did not…

That’s quite the message you want to send: Don’t mess with Star Trek fans, or... we’ll pay you.

The Elektra film was shit, but that’s not on Garner. She was fine in Daredevil (which comes thisclose to being a decent film, but everything is executed just a little too shoddily to get over the line).

The second movie has the best-directed action sequences of the bunch

The second one did, I don’t think Fallout did though. Cavill was CIA not IMF.

As far as Fast and/or Furious goes, I get what you’re saying. The action is cartoonish from start to finish and I don’t know how anyone can take it seriously or be excited by it.

Despite your many insinuations, I don’t think there’s a single in person in this comment thread who’s argued that she’s not a racist. So why, given she’s a racist and even “a big fan of brownface and yellowface”, do you think blackface is the one line she will not openly cross?

I’m pretty sure the position is: this asshole who has been extensively documented as performing racist caricatures of a number of different races, within a brand that’s also largely based on ableism and sexual assault “jokes,” didn’t engage in blackface in this case.

It does have one other weakness: the villain. I’m always surprised when Michael Nyqvist shows up because I’d forgotten he was in it since the last time I saw it. The role doesn’t stack up against what Philip Seymour Hoffman or Henry Cavill are able to bring. Hell, even Dougray Scott is more memorable.

2 is not good. The second half is kinda fun when it just turns into a non-stop John Woo self-parody, but as a film it’s really poor. The whole first hour (right up to the lab break-in) is just a waste of your time with basically no redeeming features. Thandiwe Newton is kinda terrible in it too — not that it’s a…

I was only aware of the WGA stuff because I was curious when I saw they posted their full demands as the current strike kicked off. It’s entirely possibly the other guilds have different deals, although I would expect them to be similar.

I mean, All-Star Superman, which I believe Gunn has stated is one of the primary reference points for his film, covers it like this...

Not so. From the WGA website:

McQuarrie was brought in to reshape Ghost Protocol mid-production though, so arguably that’s the beginning of his influence.

Well, if you produce a hit show like Stranger Things, you may have the opportunity to renegotiate your residuals (more likely to a higher rate than a totally different approach), but the default is tied to subscriber base.