By the second paragraph all I knew was I hated it with a burning passion.

I meant to go for 48 - my point is that higher FPS for film looks bad. And past a certain point it stops being meaningfully discernable by the human eye.

There’s a little more dust on that cover: FOOLS HOUSEL! It’s been anti-Catholic propaganda this whole time!

(Housel is an archaic word for the Eucharist.

Obviously.)

Why the fuck do you want camera running 120fps. It looked just as much like shit when Jackson tried to bump it to 28 or whatever the fuck it was. The number going up didn’t make an improvement.

A Wrinkle In Time didn’t do ‘poorly’.

Talking at nominal value (i.e. not adjusting for inflation), it’s the second biggest cinematic bomb in all of history (after another 2018 film, The Mortal Engines), losing a sobering $130 million dollars from a $125 million budget. Yes, that’s right, it did so badly they apparently…

What a wonderful land you live in in which being a fan of PC games corresponds to having easy access to cash.

This is the first I think I have even heard of Stadia.

Generally, though, I deplore anything that gives me less ownership. I live in fear of the day something happens to Steam and all this ephemera I ‘own’ evaporates. It’s already happening with old games not working on newer hardware

I come from the distant year of 2019 to tell you that your point is irrelevant - it’s a fucking terrible way to end a miniseries just as much as a multi-season arc of television.

Also if you can hear me in the past: season 2 will be even more disappointing, the last two seasons make up for it, and also the sense of…

I’ve never seen this clip before. it’s not just that’s it’s not funny. it’s not clear that it could be funny. it’s not a joke that fell flat, it is the absence - entirely - of comedic structure.

Netflix gave this man a multi-movie comedy deal.

Why did anyone give that man a career, much less multiple movies?

It’s still apt twice.

You are the first, and possibly only person ever, to praise The Pacific.

I wish to study you under laboratory conditions.

The etymologist in me loathes her-story with great passion. His! Is! Not!Functioning! As! A! Prefix!

Death Stranding (33 hours)

This is completely unrelated to this topic but is Death Stranding really only 33 hours long? I haven’t been able to play it but I got the impression that simply by the nature of its mechanics it was kind a long game - but this is an average playthrough for ME2.

It is the English word for someone who is French-speaking. The French word is francophonie.

FRACOPHONE NOT FRANCOPHILE. THEY ARE NOT SYNONYMS.

Like most vegan food.

Taste-test remains inconclusive.

Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch explains what makes a great car chase and why he chose not to include any in Hobbs & Shaw.

It’s a reference tot he fact that Labyrinth is a fun movie and that it would be far better to keep Jareth the Goblin King alive in public memory that it would be Creepy Subway Guy who deserves damnatio memoriae.

Do ask “What Would Jareth Do?”