I remember reception being pretty tepid—parts of it have aged better and I always kind of liked it, but it was a mild disappointment, though Scorcese sets a high bar.

Is the thrust of this post really people surprised that a fictional character doesn’t replicate another fictional character’s fictional achievement? What a weird angle to take earnestly—and here I mean this post specficically. Some people find this one fine, but it’s all made up! The good one or the “bad” one!…

Can I ask what seems to be the main rejoinder for this? Because boring as this topic is, I have similar thoughts about Scorcese’s critiques since that NYTimes op-ed that started it all. His take to me has always been overly focused on the audience when it should be on the business models and costs of filmmaking and…

Can’t speak for this one, but she also tends to render whoever’s not in focus as nonentities. I do think there’s a lot great about her work and her perspective, but the way her work hasn’t evolved to show more has made her less and less interesting.

Huh—I wasn’t expecting you to still feel embarassed about stuff that you agree with now that you’re older...

Honestly, this is quite refreshing compared to latest bout of Scorcese laments the death of cinema.

Hmm. I get that it’s a reaction to policing, and this is fantasy, but vigilantism is terrible. It’s even usually terrible in fiction too.

Early GoT has some of the emptiest crowd scenes I’ve seen outside of syndicated genre shows, but really only got expensive expensive in it’s latter half.

He needs to pool his money with the moneymakers and create a viable chain of non-profit theaters or something. I’m being kind of facetious, but really, while it failed when Pearl Jam tried to cut out Ticketmaster they at least diagnosed the right problem—it’s not people it’s the business model. Or adopt one movie…

Stealth Omnikron: Nomad Soul reboot? Not going to beat that David Bowie soundtrack...

Indigo maybe had multiple characters, like Heavy Rain, but yeah, before that there was Omnikron: Nomad Soul, which I because David Bowie was involved had you jump into different characters if you died.

Stallone’s a funny one, where to me he’s an entirely known quantity, so there are no real surprises to his career but also a mild disappointment that he’s always leaned into his fanbase and not pursued more projects or roles that didn’t fit. It’s tough to make a career, so I get it, and there’s bad luck—he’s the only…

They don’t do much gore or effects of gunshots, and it’s very calculatedly no civilians are hurt except for the dog in the very first movie, so for me personally, I do think they avoid the extremes. Look at some of the copycat Wick movies out there now, with ultra ultra competent killers, and the fights are much more…

It was a really long way of “they made it look cool but didn’t overdo it.”

I wouldn’t call it phoning it in—Dinklage’s work sounds like a case of direction rather than the actor. Nolan North’s voice work is emotes more, in a register that sounds more familiar to gamers, and maybe more suited to Destiny overall, but both are fine.

I guess they can go the route of building up gamepass and then buying exclusives a la Epic to make a run at capturing more of the PC market, though it’s too early to do that kind of play so I still don’t think that Baldur’s Gate estimate is a lowball, PC and Valve being “next” and all if that’s true.

Eh, Balder’s Gate market is primarily PC, and MS would be paying to buy out PS players, not reaching every gamer out there.

Might also be that his heyday was mostly in print or radio. Myself, I started avoiding him around the squirrel court era just cause I didn’t find him funny anymore, though I’ve never been fond of this style of big fish tales. By the time I learned more--mostly about his exagerrations about being a put upon tourist or…

Lol—talking about Sedaris with any amount of relevancy should tip you off that I’m older than that, not that it matters to you.

Lol—talking about Sedaris with any amount of relevancy should tip you off that I’m older than that, not that it matters to you.