Edgerton already has a double, or he’s the double of what if Conan O’Brien were a dramatic actor.

That’s not true, he’s keeping up with everybody and we’re all moving forward.

I don’t think it’s a realistic expectation to see changes in the immediate slate—movies take too long to get going to change things that are in production without write offs—ala WB/Discovery. (Though has Blade started shooting? Unless it’s tied in, they can move that.) So next year, no changes really, but the year…

There’s a certain strain macho-ness that causes anything difficult that a man does to be compared to war, cause warriors are the manliest. But yeah, it’s not an abstract comparison here, and it was made during the war. Just a lot.

He gives the context and it’s just the kinda thing people say, but comparing movie making to war is at best “oh—okay.”

What are you talking about? This is clearly Wings of Desire.

The art style reminds me of Fear & Hunger, and after too many lore videos (I’m too chicken to play) I’m going to go ahead and assume they summon an old god and one or all them become the cards or something.

He’s suing the docmakers, not the whistleblowers. Whatever the optics of this move are worth, that would instantly blowback.

You know I’m reacting now about the use of the punchline now, because of the way time works? And personalized my comment—I don’t think Dana Plato or Todd Bridges or whoever else there might be to be common knowledge, though their stories and others are the context for making the joke now.

Her mystery novels have been pretty well received—whether that’s with or despite or anything else because of her fame, since her pen name got outed pretty fast, who knows. But anyway, I get the sense she’s a true believer, and even without fame she’d be on X ranting away.

The topmen! God, i love that game but there was a lot of guesswork for me in the end.

Hmm...I guess I’m old enough but I think this is a reference to Dana Plato, who had addiction issues and later died by suicide. Makes it less of joking matter for me.

While I’m open to it turns out Vin Diesel is a terrible boss and so on, it always stood out to me that when reports that he and Johnson weren’t getting along so much coverage was conformed to a kind of likability pecking order. The Rock was the fun muscle-bound celebrity and Diesel the cringy one, when now it sounds…

Aww.

I think now it might work as a nostalgia piece, or a pseudo-nostalgia piece, for all the folks who haven’t watched it but now it’s references. Straight to streaming and not having a whole to-do in the theaters.

Hmm, that sounds more like CE or NE than chaotic neutral. Or good, if Milwaukee Dan is evil.

I’m not saying it would be good, but I feel like it’d be better without the narration--it feels really distracting. Looks like the director had a promising short (like some Saint’s Row fanfiction) and then investment came—and Skarsgård clearly wants to have more action roles and here we are.

Horror isn’t my thing really, so I have to ask if people really expect twists beyond inventing kills and traps for something like this? Like maybe—where’s a parent, who made her, that sort of thing for a vampire movie, but it was some ancient spell or whatever the tension is in who’ll escape (if) and how, right?

Can I ask what you felt was mocking? Not the friendliest tone, maybe, depending on how you want to read text, but I don’t think I mocked you. I do think your argument was reductive, since marketers are monolothicly money people, and critics are a separate group, and so on.

Here’s the thing: He can get distribution—he’s having trouble getting it at the buy-in he wants, which was with something like $100 million in marketing as first reported. Him buying in doesn’t mean other people, let along businesses, need to in the same manner, especially if it was to release art for art’s sake he…