Disney Exec: “Ron Howard will surely make an insightful documentary about Jim Henson!”

Disney's grabbing anime now? Not...sure what to think about that.

If you haven’t noticed, Disney+ seems to be the place everything is going.  Where Netflix lets stuff come and go and Max seem to happily sell its shit to whoever(or just right it off as a tax break).  Disney has actively been trying to get all of its IP that it did license back into its own service and happily grab…

“...all standing together with dramatic music...”

I don’t know that there’s anywhere that strong documentaries regularily emerge except, I dunno, PBS? I kinda think docs are simultaneously really hard (to make and sell) and also what comes out is usually graded on a curve—if people like the subject or learn a little, a mediocre doc seems like it’s done the job.

There are plenty of documentaries, and one fine semi-autobiographical film, that detail the darker side of the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson’s story.

Based on the film’s subtitle, The Last Dance, Ejiofor is clearly playing a multiverse Michael Jordan and the venom symbiote is how he becomes the greatest basketball player ever. Except this universe, he plays his entire career for...The Washington Wizards.

Shame that the Beach Boys documentary isn’t more than a puff piece. Brian Wilson isn’t in the best of health right now so who knows how long he will be around to tell his story. 

“We often hear of documentaries that are repudiated by their subjects. Here at Disney we have a policy that ensures this doesn’t happen.”

Why take an Oscar-worthy subject, get an unprecedented level of access, and pump out a perfectly fine but not particularly revelatory nostalgia piece?

This movie needs to end with Venom, Kraven, Madame Web, Vulture and Morbius all standing together with dramatic music like they are the Superfriends! What! One can only hope for something that stupid!

Based on the lack of musical numbers in this trailer I can only assume this is a musical.

Burr was making fun of people who pretended to be surprised that a guy born 12 years before Black people were allowed to play in Major League Baseball had sone ugly ideas about race. 

It’s the theater experience, which a LOT of people complain about between the cost and inconvenience. There’s a lot of talk about how these movies failed but it’s not them, it’s theaters.

Between Furiosa and The Fall Guy getting rave reviews yet disappointing in the box office it may be time to admit that the movies themselves are not the problem. It’s the theater experience, which a LOT of people complain about between the cost and inconvenience. There’s a lot of talk about how these movies failed but…

The “maybe they’re just crazy in a room somewhere” trope has to be one of my least favourite lazy fan theories. It’s almost never based on anything actually present in the text - because it doesn’t need to be; if the protagonist is crazy everything is unreliable - and it usually adds nothing to the story thematically.

The Tom Hardy re-casting doesn’t seem like something you need to account for, to the extent you really need to account for anything in this exercise. It’s a casting decision that exists outside the narrative — it has nothing to do with the timeline or overall arc of the movies. Mel Gibson was too old and...let’s say…

It was pretty obvious that for the first three films Miller was riffing a slightly new take with each movie and could not give a flying fuck about canon and continuty and all that bullshit which audiences at the time also could not have cared less about. They’re just movies. It’s all make-believe. Fiction doesn’t have…

Could have gone around twice with them.