I love people coming here and getting all mad on behalf of the large corporations that screw over the actual artists more than any Napster pirate ever. What kind of miserable bastard is so enamored with the kinds of useless trust fund babies who end up buying master recordings as an investment that they would actually…

What’s hilarious to me is they got themselves into this mess by seeing Apple come out with Siri, hearing the buzz, and falling over themselves to pour billions into voice assistants without any real plan what to do with them.

Now they’re seeing the buzz about AI and they’re falling over themselves to pour billions into…

Ok, now I want this whole thing to be narrated noir-style by grizzled-ex-cop-with-a-drinking-problem Grogu.

I have a theory. I’m a giant space nerd who’s a fan of Joel Kinnamon and shows that take place over long periods of narrative time. This should be right up my alley.

Despite that, I’m not really drawn to it because I’m just looking for escapism these days as everything is just so damn depressing. Best case scenario is…

The Steed Beaver. Will ride giant alien beaver to defeat corporate robot lumberjacks who are cutting down trees for magical maple syrup that cures any disease. Jake Sully will need to rapidly master woodland skills to defeat Miles Quaritch in a Space Lumberjack-off.

I feel exactly the same. It’s a good show that felt so welcome after the ending of GoT. Despite that I don’t think I’ll keep watching because I’m pretty sure it will just depress and frustrate the hell out of me. Really enthralling show but I need escapism these days, not a reminder that powerful people are routinely…

As you pointed out, people have been putting messages into entertainment with wildly varying levels of subtlety as long as people have been getting entertained. See every Christmas movie, 80's cartoon, or any movie ever where the one-dimensional jerk gets excessive comeuppance. It’s not remotely new.

What is new is…

There has always been a contingent of people who’ve hated the Marvel movies. I don’t think the numbers have grown significantly. The big difference now is they’re no longer drowned out by legions of fans. The fatigue is real.

Movies used to have intermissions. You’d think that a film historian like Scorsese would know this.

This has to lead to the Council of Kangs or whatever, right? If the whole point of the sacred timeline (and presumably the Loom) is to prevent the creation of alternate Kangs, then the explosion presumably results in the instant proliferation of Kangs throughout the timeline. The only question is whether that leads to…

Yes, and the target consumer is absolutely someone who already owns and/or has streaming access to a lot of them or knows someone who does. Put them on a Venn diagram with the kind of people who can afford $1,500 for major gifts or hobbies and that’s the target.

In fact I think the person least likely to buy this is…

Movie historians still know it exists. They didn’t need to include it in a consumer-focused collection of feel-good animated films. Given it’s a set designed to celebrate their anniversary, it’s inclusion would be Disney implying it’s worthy of celebration.

It is a complex issue but the studios and streaming services have no leg to stand on because they aren’t actually competing with each other when it comes to these residuals. They are a united front, leaving negotiations to an umbrella organization, the AMPTP.

The changing business dynamics are a smokescreen when a…

I would be utterly shocked (but pleased) if Star Wars was able to convert its broad strokes morality to a story about core societal issues. The ones they’ve set up relate to complex real world issues like economic exploitation, the concentration of power and wealth into the hands of a self-serving elite, and the the…

It’s strongly implied throughout Star Wars that the old Jedi order only took in those with the strongest connections to the Force for training and even then only if they can start very young. Then they had to pass tests before having the opportunity to be selected as a padawan. Some were never selected. Sabine could…

I think the point was less, “effing maps, how do they work?”, and more a critique of the lazy narrative overuse of maps in the same franchise. It was snarking about creative choices, not questioning the lore.

This just confirms the leak at the beginning of this that their plan was to negotiate in bad faith until regular people started losing their homes.

I live for the day when everyone finally wakes up to the fact that all our lives are made worse because of the unrestrained greed of a tiny group of people whose…

It’s an especially weird argument given the scene that was being filmed. He was pointing and “firing” the gun at the camera. It would have clearly shown his finger. It would be odd if it wasn’t intended for him to pull the trigger. I can’t imagine they were planning to do something like digitally add the trigger pull.

T…

I’m one of those people who grew up on the original trilogy. Like many, I had an unreasonable fan reaction to many aspects of the prequels. I thought they were badly made movies. As I got older, not only did I gradually come to see those prequels as foundational parts of Star Wars that I couldn’t imagine the franchise…

You know, you’re right. Your experience definitely outweighs record-keeping, statistics, and expertise. Thanks for confidently asserting your personal experience as God’s truth. I am tired of this arrogant author and his narcissistic trusting of “informed” sources. And then he has the gall to make value judgments…