Stupid crossovers. I enjoyed HoxPox and the first Hickman trade, but I feel like this is going to be incomprehension without following a bunch of titles and spending a fortune.

Yeah, no one asks for the chappy contract. Bar a handful of superstars, creators are usually stuck accepting whatever offered.

“Lifetime of evidence against it” is a weird way to phrase it. It seems like Bowie had a lot of sex with men in the 60s and 70s at least, but went back and forth on how he’d label or consider himself.

Alternatively, what did people expect from the director of the Force Awakens and the Oscar winning writer of Argo?

Ride of Skywalker was shit, but i disagree with the idea that it’d have been solved by plotting the whole thing in advance. There are so many variables good and bad that you can’t know in advance. Poe died halfway through Force Awakens until part of the way through filming. A plan would have meant no Poe. And no plan…

The AVClub should have built in sarcasm tags. Or i could have made my point clearer. Basically, thatsthejoke.gif.

Thankfully we learned from our mistakes...

Exactky. If everything is going straight to streaming, the movies are going to need to be a lot cheaper for the financials to make sense. Those big Disney movies are pulling in the guts of a billion at the box office, which means they’re pulling in like 400-500million dollars before they go to streaming. It’s…

MI5 is great. Cruise and McQuarrie had planned to do the swimming in one take, but realised they needed all the cross cutting to provide tension. Its insanely impressive that actors can hold their breathe for 6 or 7 minutes, while swimming, performing physical tasks and acting.

“Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn, and their failures in leadership are name-checked, along with a string of 21st-century financial crises.”

And it’s a social media juggernaut. Even my boring, politics-focused, old man Twitter timeline is full of people talking about this show. It’s clearly one of the biggest Netflix hits of the year in terms of viewership and media impact.

The NDA that is included in every TV writing contract as standard. That’s not an assumption, that’s a basic understanding of how the business works.

I’m far from Biden’s biggest fan and have a lot of reservations about him for the reasons you mention, but pretending he’s the same as Trump is nonsense.

“wish she had included specifics”

If theyre sinking roughly 200 mill plus 100-150 marketing, and they only get roughly 50% of box office receipts, anything south of 600million worldwide is pribably a loss. Obviously there’s VOD, streaming, etc, but the opportunity cost of making a Fantastic Beasts means they can’t make some other movie that might be a…

71 is a superb movie. Like Escape from New York with a grounding in reality. So tense.

Not necessarily. Light is a tricky beast and skin tones are a son of a bitch. It’s very hard to compare any two images because you have the actor’s makeup, the light in the room, camera exposure, color profiles, camera bias, video compression, the monitor the end user is viewing it on, etc.

Colour timing is a process most people don’t understand and I think is worth explaining. The accusation makes it sound like they went out of the way to adjust only the black man’s skin, when that’s not how the process works. Everyone’s skintone has to be adjusted constantly. The last time I was in the grade I must…

This part is silly. “Whedon had had an actor’s skin color digitally altered in post-production because “he didn’t like their skin tone” It’s literally impossible to release a movie without altering an actors skintone.

He seems pretty chill, but he’s actually very angry at the world and repressing his incessant urge to scream and smash everything.