She’s great in Personal Shopper, but I found it pretty ho-hum.

Not really gonna quibble with the ranking (especially since I’m one of the ones who likes the storytelling in FC2 the most. The interactions in town with your reputation at different levels being an especially good touch.) except for mentioning why mine would be different:

Yeah--I think the thing is you can always skip but I like the smaller Far Crys for well, being smaller. I do like the gameplay, but more of the same is more of the same.

Molly Ringwald had a very good essay about his work and the movies—how they did tell stories that touch teenagers and the like but also enforced cultural norms and came from a boys-club world.

Yeah, I didn’t about that until this happened, but I remember when Brandon Lee died. A piece of a bullet was in the prop gun that was improperly cleaned, and when a blank was fired in a later scene, it was fired and killed Lee.

It’s as you say, it’s a real pot-stirring sentence—and can a firearm can be a prop gun—and the use of it as a prop that makes it a prop gun? A gun that fires blanks still, well, “fires” them.

I don’t know if you can fit this in, but it’s good to know that Americans used to be against tipping because it was classist, but it kind of took over after the Civil War because it was a way to depress wages for doing jobs that traditionally paid alright but shouldn’t anymore because Black people were getting them.…

I don’t know where it’s from originally, but Rose mentions it in her stories/tweets as the studio’s story about it. It’s in the part in legible font if you follow the second link.

Ruby Rose claims that’s their story to get people moving along, so you know, everybody gets a grain of salt.

I get that--what I appreciate is that by talking about some actual interactions on a set, he describes their use beyond the technical aspects. When he aims for what he thinks looks better, he’s also describing what works better for him and, I don’t know, here it feels more personable rather than the pronouncements…

Yeah, even Sonnenfeld is making the distinction between shooting and presenting movie technologies.

I was prepared for a reflexive old technologies are better spiel, but Sonnenfeld makes good points. His technical opinions are coming from practice and use—how it affects the interaction with actors and such. (Though obviously, the “do one more” directing style has been present for a long time) Actual reasons for why…

Oh, Whedon was explicitly connecting it. Mind, I don’t think it was meant as an endorsement of the Confederacy but rather a playing with Westerns and stories, but while I was years after him at Wesleyan, we shared a professor in Richard Slotkin whose work is about America and mythmaking, and well, Westerns. He can’t…

I’m used to the MCU being a different animal than the comics, but I’m also a perplexed at this choice. I guess those rumors of Adam Warlock being a big piece of whatever is to come are maybe true.

This is the second write up that comes straight with “Harry Styles is hot and now he plays a hot character,” though as a comic fan the most prominent story he’s appeared in a while is being put on trial for, well, the lack of consent with his powers. I’ll tip my cap to Marvel if they put it into the She-Hulk show...I…

Whenever Lord of the Flies is brought up I think it’s always good to bring this story up, about when something like it really happened:

Seriously? Chapterhouse Dune I think. It was weird. Religion in Dune was previously a stew of things, and then in one of the later books, Jews show up as largely unchanged. Which, for a series that was purposely a melange of influences/alternate history/fantasy, was a weird development.

It’s been...actual decades since I read it...but I thought his vision was that no matter what happened including if he died, the jihad was coming regardless.

This almost a non-sequitur, but one of my moments of really understanding what actors can do was watching Tomorrow Never Dies and hearing Pierce Brosnan say the title without it sounding goofy as heck—and when he popped up here to talk about Dr. Fate I was again impressed by his delivery. I like the Rock! It’s gonna…

That’s all for part two, right? I think there’s definite criticism to be made of the book series and it’s melange/appropiation of things (though Herbert handles it better than say George RR Martin does anything non-European), but not a savior and not a prophecy were definitely key points in the books.