Thank you for linking this; it WAS a fun read! His self-deprecating humor about his height and abdomen made me laugh out loud.

Glad I’m not the only one who wondered how much iphone profits went into “campaigning” for CODA to win things. 

If I ever get to Japan, I would definitely look into getting tickets to the museum.

Not me. But then I’m an old-person-yells-at-cloud type so I don’t count.

Obviously Olivia Colman (the scene when she said she was broken had me feeling “fragile” myself) and David Thewlis knocked it out of the park, but I also have to say that Dipo Ola as Douglas was a shining star as well. 

If Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have the time after BCS to do a spinoff for Lalo, I think it would be another great show. I’m not one for people doing prequels/spinoffs willy nilly as is the trend these days, but Tony Dalton has the charisma to be the center of a show and there is a lot that could be explored with…

I just watched the first episode and also agree that this feels like British Fargo. After that part “This is a true story” appeared, I had to check if Noah Hawley was somehow involved in this as a producer.

Yeah when I saw this headline on AVC, I was also wondering what made it “news” since any Miyazaki fan has known about this project for a long time already. But I agree with you, any time he gets attention, I’m there for it.

I’d read some article in the past year where it said Miyazaki finishes about 1 minute of the film per month (much slower pace than his prior works) since he can only hand draw so much in his old age. Gotta respect his craft of drawing everything by hand.

Ha, you don’t mince words there. But I do like many Nolan movies: Inception, The Prestige, Interstellar. Please don’t judge me!

Enemy is definitely one of his underrated and less mentioned movies. Sadly, I also don’t see him making something like that or Incendies for a while. Same as how Christopher Nolan hasn’t done something smaller like Insomnia once he became TDK trilogy famous.

It’s a bummer because he can still achieve a lot with less money and still make the big money studios want (Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival), which isn’t to say he doesn’t deserve to get big budgets/large scale movies.

Denis Villeneuve has been tied to a Cleopatra movie as well, so that means we’ll be getting potentially TWO Cleopatra movies? I don’t know if we need even one new one. After Denis films Dune Part Two, I’d prefer to see him do something that’s not big-budget/tentpole.

He'd probably invoke HIPPO and say his medical information is protected by it (intentionally spelled it wrong in case people think I'm one of the dumb ones).

Exactly; adult humans have lived at least most of their lives, whereas seeing innocent kids and dogs/animals dying is not something I’d sign up to watch. The Drop with Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini (RIP) was probably the first modern movie where it was necessary for me to know if the dog I saw in the trailer was…

I can do the opposite, by saying that I’m gonna have to consult the website “Does The Dog Die?” before I watch this.

They better not! That role should just be fun and light; no need to drag it down and make it a downer. 

She’s got at least one non-mopey role coming up in Disenchanted.

There was a cool shot when they’re being flown to their new home base on Arrakis and the camera pans back with a wide shot to look at what they’ve just flown over. It reminded me of the scene in Arrival when they’re showing the first glimpse of the military base and the alien shell; the way the helicopter circles…

That makes sense—that when your dream project since you were a kid actually came to fruition, you feel at the pinnacle of joy.