Most shows that were shot on film were shot widescreen, because most 35mm film is widescreen, which is why some older shows are able to be remastered on a wide aspect ratio.

Filoni has zero subtlety as a storyteller (all the more apparent in his live action work), so even if you don’t know everything that happened in Rebels, he’ll figure out a way of having the characters very slowly and deliberately tell you how they got where they are.

Genre writers/directors: We gotta come up with something original. Seven Samurai or Lone Wolf and Cub today?

It might be the anime that has the most individual drawn cels per running time? Seriously it uses a shockingly low amount of “held” cels for an anime, and I can’t think of another anime that approaches it (maybe Wings of Honneamise?). Even Ghibli movies are comparatively low-framerate (reserving the high FPS stuff for…

So we just did this with our 4 and a half year old who was very excited to see Elemental. She has issues staying still and watching full movies at home, so we had prepared ourselves for the idea that we’ll just have to suck it up and leave if she gets too fidgety in the middle of the movie. We also had plenty of talks…

As a compositor I think you hit the nail on the head; the part that makes keying such a pain is because the screen is underlit, contaminated with other colors, wrinkled, etc. It’s very frustrating because even if you think a scene looks good to the eye there’ll be weird imperfections that keep it from being a “set and…

I love me Steve Ditko. Him and Spider-Man is to me probably the most perfect pairing of artist and character, frankly better to me than any of Kirby’s 60s Marvel work (yes, including Fantastic Four; I just think Kirby was stretched a little thin between all the books he was doing and it wasn’t until he got really…

I was singing this song to myself earlier this week and I don’t know why, and now I have no choice but to start singing it again.

Makes sense, but that overlapping screen is still terrible. I’d rather not have it there at all.

I see empty space at the top of the front screen by the hinge, couldn’t they have just nudged the screen up there so the bottom doesn’t get eaten up by the lens?

Sorry but that sounds, at best, like an annoying fantasy/flashback interlude in a larger LOTR game. The kind that, if they’re lucky, adds some emotional weight, but almost always is just a no-stakes filler section (“Oh great another Gollum level”)

That could’ve been the case had people not realized (like they should by now) that Dominion was absolutely more interested in the money than any type of societal justice.

Remember how people were like “the Saudi investors are gonna come after Musk soon with all their money he’s flushing down the toilet.”

I literally was responding to a guy by saying not everything he liked in-office was liked by everyone else, is it really so hard to imagine the same about work from home?

Okay, I will engage with this once in good faith, because I do think there are people like you who genuinely do better in an in-person environment, and I DO think that despite the advances in teleconferencing technologies since the pandemic, the idea that zoom etc can completely supplement all the lost benefits of…

Arnold was the best part of Dark Fate; his sense of humor, comedic timing, and humanity was actually really refreshing considering how otherwise humorless the rest of the movie is (which is unfortunate because like a lot of latter-day sequels, the plot and action has this weightless, tangled feeling where every scene…

Not too cynical. Frankly I didn’t really understand the upside of companies doing this anyway. It’s good for consumers to have an extra access point for support, but it seemed like just a way for companies to expose themselves only to people complaining.

As others have said, yes, they do, if they have investors, which they almost certainly do.

I’d like to remind everyone that high-end collectibles are a giant money laundering and tax evasion scam* and if at any point you read about some collectible in the news, 99.99999% chance you’ve already missed it and you’re gonna get rubed.

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