“McDormand’s comments about focusing on age would seem to back that up”

Every piece of vampire fiction makes up its own rules for this stuff, either with or without pseudo-logical explanations. On this show, which has never given a crap about logical explanations, we don’t know why they don’t show up in mirrors, but we do know they show up on film (the opening credits are full of…

Kind of mixing a couple different arguments there, I think. I was responding to your first comment which specifically mentioned the stuff that had successful Hollywood adaptations. Those works are all from before 1974 except Scanner, and aren’t the kind of thing you’re talking about now. The only one of those that’s…

Btw I’m not trying to be argumentative, I just find this stuff really interesting. If you want to read someone who is a huge PKD nerd who’s better at expressing himself than me, doing a super deep dive into Dicks’s influences and problems from a respectful but not reverent point of view, and if you have a LOT of free…

If my comment came across as me saying that his work was all very mainstream, then I sure screwed up somehow, because that’d be silly. I’ve read nearly all of his work - *of course* some of it was way out there. But “outsider art” doesn’t just mean “stuff that’s way out there”; it’s a term you’d use for the work of…

I think calling Dick’s work “outsider art” is a stretch. That term is less meaningful when you’re talking about a field where, at least during Dick’s early career, there was a relatively tiny number of authors who were taken seriously as writers and the closest things to any kind of mass media making SF writing…

I’m confused about whether it’s possible to see any of this stuff via streaming if you’re not in Canada. I’m in the US and when I visit the festival site, it doesn’t give me any options for buying tickets. I’m told that those options do show up if you view the site from Canada... but that it won’t accept a US credit…

Having seen the movie: your rant is hilariously wrong, at least the part about bothering censors. The movie is very very very gory. Not sure why the reviewer thought that particular Harley scene made much difference in that regard; I think probably the reason to do the scene that way was just that it was cool.

Yeah, I don’t get it— like, even if we somehow don’t care about anyone’s emotional reaction, why would we be indifferent to something that’s also a big swerve in the plot? Like, we’ve been in suspense about whether Mobius will figure this out in time, now he finally did and he’s helping Loki, we get to enjoy their…

I thought it was a good choice too, but even if I hadn’t thought it worked, I wouldn’t remotely have imagined that it wasn’t a choice. The show is not directed by incompetent and unimaginative people. If they wanted to have a flashback but they somehow couldn’t manage to film a flashback (I’m also having trouble…

Here, sweetheart, have a cookie and go off to bed now, knowing you got attentiom.

The problem with her running on Ex Machina is that it’s not the type of film or performance that would have ultimately won her the Oscar (or even gotten a nomination). Outside of the technical categories sci-fi films are routinely ignored by the Academy

This comes up in pretty much every interview with her, and she’s consistently said 1. yes it’s goofy, because I came up with it when I was 15, but that’s still kind of my self-image so I still like it, 2. also I like that musicians get to use ridiculous names, 3. if I start getting a lot of serious roles I might stop…

For a second I thought the guy playing Razorface was Wes Chatham a.k.a. Amos from The Expanse, but no, it’s just a guy who looks very slightly like the bearded version of him if he were taller. Probably for the best, because Amos fans would be sad about any part of Chatham’s body being removed even fictionally.

even in the 70's they knew the name was a bad idea and had characters in universe think Manchu was fictional (Fu-Manchu being a badguy from a series of pulp adventure novels in the 30s)

Oh that is absolutely supposed to be SF— never mind the tunnel, Awkwafina is driving a bus on the “1 California” route, and there’s a prominent shot of the Ghirardelli building (or a Ghirardelli building at least, not sure that’s the real one). Parts of the financial district were shut down for film shoots a while…

Apollo 1 is covered in First Man. It’s a small part of the movie of course, but the way it’s filmed makes the horror pretty memorable: instead of cutting away from the interior of the ship right away when the fire starts, you stay with the crew long enough to see them going into crisis mode and trying to save…

On the other hand... it’s not like grim morbid hyper-melodrama hasn’t also been a thing in comics for kids since forever. There were plenty of morbid teens in the ‘80s who thought it was awesome when various X-Men and Titans would get killed or go evil or whatever (again). I was one of them! And the previous decade…

I’m not going to argue with a straight face that the portrayal of the islanders isn’t racist, but this is a way different kind of ethnocentric mythology than Birth of a Nation. The islanders do exactly one bad (from the protagonists’ point of view) thing: they kidnap Ann Darrow, because they need a sacrifice and…

If you mean the in-story logic... Denham and his crew have no idea what the hell is on the island until the moment they see Kong. They only know there’s something impressive. The few people who survive the mission have found out there are also dinosaurs, but at that point there’s no way they’re going back there - they…