*all practical, if I’m not mistaken.  Still looks good to this day, and still scary as fuck.

It’s also based completely on opaque numbers that Netflix controls from beginning to end, so...

In theory, they have to be paying some kind of residuals to actors, writers, directors, etc. But I can’t imagine its really that onerous of a cost.

I just don’t think the guy has any idea what he’s doing.

I don’t even know what they get out of killing HBO Max.  HBO is still a pretty prestigious brand-name, much more so than Discovery, which used to be high brow educational stuff and has now become lowest-common denominator reality trash.  But if you kill off HBO’s streaming stuff, what do you do with it?  Just sit on…

There is no world where sending a wikipedia link defining “character arc” to a studio exec will not be taken as passive aggressive. It’d be like sending a GM VP the link to “internal combustion engine”.

You guys do know you really don’t have to put brackets into the blurbs when you’re just ripping yourselves off anyways, right?

That whole leveraged buyout thing is where being a moron comes in.

I’m not sure how someone gets to the point of sending a wikipedia link to the term “character arc” to the head of a studio and not have some major ego be involved. Claiming that they didn’t understand Jenkins’ idea of Wonder Woman’s character arc is one thing. Claiming they don’t understand character arcs at all, full…

It’s part of the shrinking of the industry, where everyone has to be multi-hyphenate now.  It’s annoying as hell.

This, precisely. She’s not just burning the bridge, she’s taking off and nuking it from orbit. Thing is, I just don’t get what is to be gained by going about it this way. Her reps’ heads have got to be spinning right now.

I dunno, “it’s all confetti” is a pretty powerful speech.  I rewatched HoHH earlier this year, and the ending had me misting up all over again.

I think the reason Flanagan and King get along so well is that they both live and die by the characters. King’s writing can be very hit or miss in the plotting (especially, famously, in the endings), but it’s very, very rare you read a King book and don’t find yourself drawn in by the characters. Flanagan does very…

This guy sounds like a bigger moron than Chapek.  It can’t really be this hard to run an entertainment company, can it?

I knew that movie was going to be trouble when it failed to start with a crane shot of the Man in Black running across the desert and booming down to reveal Roland stepping into frame to follow him.

Hard disagree. Midnight Mass was the best thing he’s done so far, IMO.

However, I have noticed that if he’s only producing and not directing, the shows suffer.  Bly Manor and Midnight Club were pale shades of Hill House and Midnight Mass.   I can’t imagine he’ll direct 50 episodes of TV for the next five years, but…

Those last two movies also were both, quite literally, the biggest movies in history.  At that point, you’ve probably earned a giant ego.

Wait till Sam Bankman-Fried or whatever finishes his run.

“has this ever been happened”

Check out The Fablemans.  It’s much more subdued cinematography than Kaminiski and Spielberg have produced lately.

The disappearance of melodic movie scores is one of the biggest failings of the modern movie era, in my opinion.