Finally watched The Fabelmans on a flight recently and found it pretty seriously underwhelming.  I sure don’t know why anyone was surprised it didn’t win Best Picture.  Yes I know Hollywood loves movies about movies and his own life was inspiration for that particular one, but it felt like a middling episode of The…

“Spielberg directed two of the best films of his career.”

Citation seriously needed. West Side Story and Fablemans are fine, but they aren’t even top 10 in Spielberg’s filmography.

Of all the effects in 2001. When the stewardess picks up the pen floating in zero G it looks perfect. Turns out there were no wires or screen cuts. The just taped a pen to a sheet of glass and moved it in front of the camera. Such a simple trick but it just sell the realness of the movie so well.

Ahsoka didn’t wash out. She was initially kicked out of the Jedi Order because they believed, wrongly, that she was behind a bombing of the Jedi Temple. After it was revealed that the bomber was actually Bariss Offee the Jedi Council said that Ahsoka was reinstated and that the hardships she went through as the…

When the galaxy is made to feel that small, when we keep revisiting these already-established nexuses of characters, Jedi or otherwise, that scale in the background fiction doesn’t carry the weight it should, and remains forever in abstract.

Was just about to post something about American Werewolf...

I like how that section concludes by describing the Kong who literally exposes Jessica Lange’s tits as “less rapey.”

I think Miyazaki lives in a perpetual state of quiet mortification anyway...

I want more details on the glasses situation. I have a Quest 2 that I rarely use, mostly because it is annoying to try to squeeze my glasses in there. There is a 3rd-party company that makes lenses for it (I forget who it is right now), like it seems like Zeiss will for Apple, but that’s an extra expense that just…

I kind of get where you’re coming from (though Pixar first screwed up a long time ago with Cars for my money) but I doubt it’ll bomb financially, so many people have been waiting for so long for this to be released. And if it’s not as good as people hope it will be, it’ll be just a slight disappointment and it won’t…

Why does that ship have breasts? They even have nipples...

Ah yes, the James Cameron-designed BoobShip. 

I mean, Seven Samurai + Star Wars is just Battle Beyond the Stars, isn’t it?

All his talk about it being badass and cool is so fucking embarrassing, I’m really not sure that this site isn’t written by 8 year olds now. Either way, it feels like he’s doing this so the film speaks for itself, and if he read this article I think he’d be quietly mortified.

The Ahsoka picture makes me wonder how they keep their clothes so clean! We never see them doing laundry yet not a spot, stain or mark! Is this also part of the force?

Construction, Greenwood notes, caused an international run on the fluorescent shade of Rosco paint. “The world,” she laughs, “ran out of pink.”

The folks at Pepto Bismol must be going crazy.

This looks Showgirls bad.

T-2000: “There are four Ns in ‘mayonnaise’”

The year is 2086. We have flying cars, people live on the moon, and Hollywood is still making Terminator sequels that nobody asked for.