*Steamboats Willie

That’s an Aussie show, right? I heard if you die in Australia, you die in real life.

Unavailable. Can I interest you in a gently used Isla Fisher?

Wh...what?! No.... NOOOO!

Christ, Actor Obviously Wants Job A Video

Agreed on all points. But I’m obligated to point out that those points all rely on accepting the premise that awards shows are valuable. ;) I do think that the problem is mainly solved by letting the voters for such awards decide what qualifies, rather than the governing body trying to delineate rules for what counts…

Arguing about genre is an ass-backwards fool’s errand. The value in art comes from engaging with it and examining its various attributes, not in trying to decide which labels to apply to it. The only real value genre labels have is as an initial, extremely coarse step in sorting through the mass of material available…

Powell is a perfectly fine meat slab of an actor, but... the dude looks like a chicken got turned into a handsome man.

*crosses fingers*

I saw Wonka yesterday. It was... pretty good! Quite delightful in a lot of ways. I know we all groaned when we first heard that Timmy C was going to be playing a young Wonka, but it actually worked out okay. Chalamet himself is actually the weakest part of the movie; he’s not bad, just kind of miscast. The movie is…

Mandy Moore is delightful. That is all.

We watched this while high and found it only mildly entertaining (although we did find the concept of a poultry farm-as-supervillain lair amusing). It just made me want to watch the original again.

That’s crazy talk.

Tired. So very tired.

One big problem with it is that Vector wasn’t a character anyone was rooting for in the original movie, and nothing in the short makes you want to root for him either. He’s arrogant, short-sighted, and overconfident. So (inasmuch as I even remembered him from that movie) I didn’t particularly care if he succeeded. It…

No, but they are attracted to my manly beard, and the many crumbs caught within.

You know damn well I’m immortal.

I wouldn’t say it’s the biggest impediment, or even in the top three, because studios always are trying to make the most money for the least effort (which is just how capitalism works, it’s not specific to movie studios). Movies like Doom, Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Warcraft had budgets…

We saw Migration. It was wholesome and cute, and substantially more mature than anything in the Gru-niverse. I mean, you’re not missing anything if you don’t see it, but yeah, not bad.

It’s not that difficult and it never has been. A movie based on a video game needs to be a good movie. The source material isn’t relevant. People who haven’t played the game (or don’t play games much at all) aren’t going to feel differently about it because it’s “not like the game.” Good characters, good narrative,…