I wonder how it feels to see the actors getting paid millions and millions while you’re getting paid...much less. I totally get that the stars are the bankable ones, but at the same time, no one would come see Thor have to run and get his hammer instead of his hammer flying to him, and no producer would want to wait…

It’s one thing to have an occasional 64 hour week or more (which I agree, many likely have experienced). Quite another to work 64 hours minimum every week with no end in sight. The former sucks but you’re working towards a short-term goal that you likely understand and use to justify the extra time spent.

Nah, there are ways directors can work with VFX people and integrate their work into the whole, ideally the director has a strong vision of what the film should look like and can hold the FX folks to that aesthetic. I’m convinced one of the main reasons Cats went as wrong as it did was the filmmakers never actually…

Insanity. 100 hours of work a week totals to 1.7 hours of personal time per day after assuming you slept 8 hours a day.

I don’t think Marion was portrayed as “not nice,” at all. The instances people have mentioned are just her being an independent, maybe slightly-fed-up, and slightly frustrated elderly person. Mentioning the messed up order to the butcher is very much in keeping with elder folks who keep track of their money, and who…

...but you’re gonna still keep paying to see them, right, even under these current conditions?

Filmmaking unions were able to get a foothold because geographically everyone had to be in Hollywood back in the day. Nowadays, even if the big firms unionised, Disney would outsource to some random dudes around the world, like a glorified version of Fiverr.

The thing is, it’s the industry setting them up for failure. The VFX studios themselves are the ones cutting costs and making their employees overworked since they’re working on lowest bid contracts (and presumably putting more staff onto more lucrative projects).

The thing is, it’s the industry setting them up for failure. The VFX studios themselves are the ones cutting costs and making their employees overworked since they’re working on lowest bid contracts (and presumably putting more staff onto more lucrative projects). These Marvel films use multiple VFX studios…

To be sure it’s an industry-wide problem, though Marvel may be the most egregious offenders. One of the reasons Cats was such a royal clusterfuck was because Tom Hooper didn’t know how to handle something this FX-heavy and made a lot of things harder for the CG animators (not using mocap suits so everything had to be…

Marvel: the Walmart of the cinema world. Can’t they just outsource this work to China or maybe a few U.S. prisons?

I’ve always wondered why—and no offense to the VFX artists working under back-breaking conditions—the CGI in Marvel movies looks so crummy. Turns out (surprise, surprise) the giant soulless corporation doesn’t give a shit about the computer nerds and sets them up for failure! They’re some of the most lavishly…

My heart goes out to those people.  60 hour is well beyond acceptable for any job.  

This is really just confirming what a bunch of people have already figured out. Marvel relies too much on CGI work that is done by overworked and underpaid artists and hasn’t been properly integrated into the rest of the movie. It shouldn’t be the understaffed VFX team’s responsibility to restructure the third act at…

omg I was sick just looking at it.  I thought with the first one that Jimmy was paying such close attention to each bite because he had hidden a pill or something in there, and I was thinking there’s no way this dude can eat that entire thing and he won’t get the drug.  But lo and behold, he ate all of that one and…

Like he couldn’t wait to put that suit on again

I think I said this last week, but since Cranston and Paul are confirmed, I’d love to see Walt and Jesse from Saul’s perspective. Just constantly complaining that these two guys are sitting on a potential gold mine but they’re just such stupid amateurs that keep screwing everything up, or something like that.

Psh. None of the above. Slippin’ Jimmy pulled off this whole stunt as proof of his ability to construct stunning, slant-rhymed mnemonic devices.

It’s about 2010 though, so there wouldn’t be as much media exposure as now.

We know we’ll see more of the pre-BrBa timeline solely because Cranston and Paul have been confirmed to appear and, well, Walter White kind of can’t pop into any Omaha Cinnabons at this point in the story.