Yeah, a $40-60m James Wan horro movie about sea monsters and pirates sounds way more fun than a $150m Black Manta movie.

Why are we pretending that a trench movie would have centered on the monsters and been bad? When I heard the title I figured (wrongly) it was a lower budget horror movie where regular folk have to explore the trench for... reasons. Something between the Shallows and the Abyss, maybe with a dash of Aliens. The movie…

I think Preacher was the epitome of this. So many great elements, but it takes 10 hours to get to page 5 of the comic’s first issue.

Totally. Dude is 68 years old and even before he was a director, he was one of Hollywood's top cinematographers.. If I was one of the best in the world at shooting on film, I'd probably think this new fangled digital stuff was bullshit. "To a man with a hammer, every problem..."

I don’t know how much of a difference using your own DP vs an MCU hand can make on the grade. Bill Pope’s camera movements survived in Shang Chi, but I don’t think his colours or shadows are up there with Matrix, Spiderman, Baby Driver, etc. And watching Ant-Man 2, it’s hard to see Spinotti, the cinematographer of…

Are you talking about filming on 4k or releasing on 4k. If you’re talking about releasing on 4k, then a 4k release of say the Godfather will give you something closer to the film original than 1080p. 4k is just the number of dots, so unless someone’s fucked around with it tor much on a computer (like the Predator blu…

I get that but you can add those. The thing is a 4k image is incredibly flexible. If you want it to look softer, darker, grittier, pinker or whatever, it’s a few button pushes away. That’s right down to individual areas of the image. Someone like Fincher is a master at this , fiddling with the colour of jackets in the…

I agree that 4k for home distribution is largely a pointless marketing exercise, but for filming (and theatrical presentation), it’s a godsend. It gives you so much more to play with in terms of colour grading, reframing, zooming, cropping, adding effects, etc. Sometimes on jobs I’m forced to shoot at 2k/1080p and I’d…

That’s not 4k’s fault, that’s a bad setup. That’s like blaming CDs because some idiot has overcranked the bass and subwoofer.

I feel like the bigger problem is that s1 is structured like a movie and everyone’s core conflicts are solved by the end. S2 is almost twice as long and doesn’t want to undo that so it’s largely arc free bar Nate. In S1...

Yup, Bolland always hated he original colours and redid it himself... and its horrendous. All the fun nightmarish quality is gone. It's criminal.

No one here is arguing successful = good. I was just questioning the “waste of time” thing. It wasn’t a waste of time for the people who made it. Or the people who watched it (at least no more so than all TV is a waste of time beyond the enjoyment it gives the viewers). And no one is being forced to watch it, so whose…

Fuller House ran 5 seasons. Girl Meets World ran 3. They were both successful shows that clearly had fanbases. Whose time were they wasting?

One of the heads of Netflix is, by all accounts, including Kevin Smith, one of the biggest He-Man fans on the planet. Which would explain 2 different He-Man shows and this new She-Ra show all coming along at roughly the same time.

I made a show for the BBC and we (ie the production company) retained all the copyright. So the BBC paid to make it and in turn got X number of screenings over Y years with Z amount of time on iPlayer. We were able to sell the rights outside the UK, and (unsuccessfully) approach other places for further episodes,…

Zemeckis hasn’t been that quiet. In 2015 he said it’d be over his dead body and on the Marwen tour in 2018 said he was adamantly against it. Thankfully both he and Gale seem pretty sure that it won’t happen until they both die.

If the proportion of the public that were serial killers was the same as the proportion of 60s and 70s rock stars who slept with underage fans, everyone on earth would be dead.

You know it’s not just Pamela De Barres, right? It’s not a secret that rockstars sleeping with underage fans was part of the culture in the 60's and 70's. Read Let’s Spend the Night Together, where 24 different Groupies tell almost identical stories about dozens of different bands (including Dylan IIRC). Or read…

I’m surprised this has taken so long. Anyone who has read Pamela De Barres’ I’m With the Band, or Groupies will know that almost every 60's and 70's rock star was “sleeping with” very underage girls. Zeppelin sent a 13 year old on a plane across the country to the Rolling Stones. What were once considered hilarious…

Yeah, they’re surprisingly well made kids movies. Tartakovsky is doing some really interesting stuff with 3D animation, trying to make it as malleable and stretchy as traditional 2D animation. Basically 3D models don’t naturally distort the way classic Chuck Jones stuff did, so he had to innovate a lot to give it that…