Typo in the headline: You wrote “promises” but it should read “threatens”

Never a bad time to listen to this old gem again:

Wait, that’s not who the movie’s about?

Since Franky didn’t oblige, I will:

Ah yes, a real movie that I definitely remember.

Invincible? The animated show about ultraviolent superheroes? It’s unclear to me what part of this Powell/Manning thing is like that at all.

It’s the best kind of adaptation, one which not only suits the material to the medium, but also jettisons elements which didn’t even work in the original medium.

I, for one, thoroughly support your continued efforts to make Turner D. Century a thing. Carry on, good fellow!

Wrap your head in barbed wire instead.

What makes you think I dislike lowbrow humor?

I generally share your opinion, so don’t feel too alone. I do think there’s a lot of room for nuance here, though; when this argument comes up people tend to either express “the Beatles should be worshipped as gods” and “the Beatles are old and lame and should be forgotten”. Which are both self-evidently foolish…

If I was directing these, I’d have them be standard biopics, but for each one throw in a totally fictional element just for the hell of it. Paul has to fight zombies, John gets recruited by MI6, George leads the band on a bank heist, and Ringo turns out to be a time-travelling robot from the future.

Played through the entirety of BL2. Here, let me hand you an egg to suck on.

What are you, some kind of communist? Bow down before our synergistic corporate overlords!

There’s nothing tragic about turning into John Slattery!

I feel like it’d take more than one big flop for them to seriously pump the brakes; when they’ve got a ton of stuff in the pipeline, it’s easy to write one off as bad luck, or whatever. It’s when a few in a row tank that they’d start to panic. (Note that I do not care if the MCU continues, I’m rapidly losing interest…

Well, let’s hope that the reason the trailer is filled with every lowbrow, middle-of-the-road “humor” moment is because the studio/trailer editors cherry-picked all those, and that the movie itself actually has better moments in it.

Gotta make sure we get plenty of time with that alarm clock!

Well, the most important thing in a biopic is how closely the actor resembles the person they’re playing.

As a fellow lunatic, I fully support a Turner D. Century cinematic universe.