Imagine being that level of perfectionist and your resulting filmography being as utterly mediocre as Ratner’s... I’d almost feel sorry for him, if not for all the credible accusations of rape and harassment.

In Alan Wake 1, Saga Anderson was White but in 2 she was race-swapped to being Black

I wasn’t familiar with the books or the movie, but it was pretty good, if you like that sort of knowingly quirky (child-friendly) grotesquery. Barry Sonnenfeld directed most of it, and it’s not a million miles away from the style he brought to The Addams Family or Pushing Daisies.

That’s exactly what Netflix did with A Series of Unfortunate Events, so it would make sense.

The only chance it has of doing Oppenheimer numbers is if Mattel had released a bold and quirky and female-skewing Hot Wheels film alongside it and somehow doing a “Hot Worms” double bill became a thing. Barring the invention of the time machine, I think it may have missed the boat on that front.

I’m surprised at how much positive spin is being put on its box office. The top 2024 opening? Compared to what, Argylle? Wow. A better opening than Part One? Well, yeah. That opened during a pandemic and had a simultaneous digital release in the US.

It wasn’t just changing the title. It was taking away the thing that made it a different take.

It’s not special effects that makes 2049 an improvement over the original though. It’s the storytelling, because storytelling has never been a particular strength of Scott.

No, it’s not. As I explained. (shrug)

I think he just means that he won’t be contributing to any more pre-established cinematic worlds. Dune is not a continuation of any previous film. He’s not beholden to what Lynch did, or to the Sci Fi Channel miniseries, or even to the books. He can make his own choices without worrying about whether it lines up with…

It’s not like the original did well at the box office.

Oh, if David [Duchovny] and Gillian [Anderson] wanted to do it again. Yeah, probably, then I would be inspired.

They are just terrible movies.

I don’t know if it was covered here, but when Mickey Mouse went public domain and a horror movie version was near instantly announced, someone interviewed Blood and Honey’s director about it, and he said (with no hint of irony) something to the effect of “You can’t just churn these things out. You’ve gotta make good…

But he’s not there for creative reasons, Goyer is still the head writer.

Executive producer in TV can be anything from a vanity credit to the showrunner. So he may have no experience, or he may have all the experience.

“Author of some of the worst novels ever written says ‘movie is better than the previous version which was hacked to pieces by the studio’”

The Walking Dead ended when they booted out Frank Darabont.

Daredevil is so nearly a great movie, the director’s cut in particular. On a macro level, it’s a very smart compression of Elektra’s arc and it’s bursting with great ideas, like Matt sleeping in a sensory deprivation tank or being able to “see” Elektra in the rain (I don’t think either of which had featured in the…

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