To her credit, uninteresting and banal is leagues ahead of “try too hard, be skin-crawling levels of obnoxious, and show very obviously that you have faced zero consequences in your life,” which most Twitch streamers exhibit.

or 1

They really should have stopped at 2. 

So another slurry of twice-microwaved nostalgia with a tidal wave of CGI and a sprinkle of Stranger Things? I hope some fans enjoy it, but showing the ostensibly big bad in multiple shots in the trailer does not inspire hope nor confidence in yet another run around the withering mulberry bush.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me

I remember about 15 years ago, shortly after Michael Crichton passed away, then-Jurassic Park producer Kathleen Kennedy was asked when we could expect a yet-to-be-made Jurassic Park 4, to which she responded “You know, Michael Crichton just died, and I’m taking that as a sign that we shouldn’t make any more of these…

lmao you made a new account to post this blather that nobody will reply to except me

I don’t think the blame for this can be laid at the feet of the filmmakers. The whole “only make movies based around existing IP” strategy comes from the money people up top, not the artists who want to tell stories.

Boomer and Gen-X filmmakers have this weird notion that every movie or TV series from their childhood and youth is universally beloved and enduring, and can be turned into an ever-expanding franchise, when that’s true of maybe just a handful of properties — Bond, Batman, Star Wars, Rocky, Godzilla. (And Star Trek, of…

Not every movie released 50 years ago needs to be a franchise. We don’t have to wring out every last dollar out of IP. I’m not sure why Universal thought The Exorcist franchise was worth $400M. 

Fun fact: If you apply the ‘Nintendo Lawyer’ Instagram filter, the girl is actually astride a giant sack of money.

I really liked that game. I thought it pulled off “live action XCom” gameplay pretty well, and it did a good job of ramping up suspense with the different hive levels of response.  A lot of my missions ended with mad dashes to the transport with my motion trackers going crazy over an incoming wave, and it was great.

Did anyone ask Noah Hawley about Aliens; Dark Descent?

The idea that, on some level, it was a bioweapon created half an hour ago

I don’t think the obscurity of the character alone is the problem - you can make a good movie out of pretty much any obscure source. Sony themselves made bank out of an obscure Marvel comics called Men in Black.

I read that last year and it was so good. I need to check out the Strugatsky Brothers’ space books.

I’ve been apprehensive about D&D helming Three Body Problem, and I’m not sure their success at adapting Game of Thrones is a guarantee they’ll succeed here. My reasons for this has to do with reflecting on what made Seasons 1-4 of Game of Thrones good, and I keep coming back to two things - characters and setting up…

These books were extremely mediocre at their very best. 

Not sure I want to risk investment in another series from those two but the trailer sure looked good.

I feel the big “twist” isn’t really worth the hype, but it’s a pretty neat way to get there.