He made Beetlejuice before Batman, which was already a toy for decades before the movie. He also refused to return when Burton declined to direct a third movie. So I’m pretty sure he knew what he was making when he signed on to Batman.

Less programming at more cost than when all of these streamers started, of course. We know the streamers’ goal was to attract as many subscribers as fast as possible, not to build a sustainable, profitable business model. That’s why these companies borrowed billions of dollars to produce the flood of content we got…

To me, that’s still the appeal of streaming: I have the option to not support niche ideological outlets if I don’t want to. I can choose exactly what I subscribe to. My biggest concern is the streamers racing to add sports to their line-up, because I remember that jacked up the cost of cable packages considerably.

Everyone here’s like “wut, Mubi? lol” meanwhile I’m still stuck on “NoBudge, the streaming platform for emerging indie filmmakers making work on microbudgets.” I always thought that’s what Vimeo was for. 

What’s wrong with beepers that make a violently-loud noise and try to jump out of your hands when the table is ready? They’re at least noticeable and they’ve worked fine for decades.

I can’t say whether it’s a good move or not since I don’t know how the majority of people will react, but frankly I respect the call-out. Some people act like entitled assholes because they’ve internalized “the customer is always right.” Fuck that.

Sounds like your friends are the ones who should be having nightmares about a “social credit” system.

I’m intrigued by Horse Venom.

I think it’s fair to call out movie theaters for their role in declining attendance, but I don’t think you can boil down the reduced window between theatrical and streaming to viewers “rejecting” the theatrical experience in favor of home viewing. The home video market is several decades old now. Movies were available…

Yeah I watched the entire show for the first and only time recently, so I went in knowing what the general perception of the final season was and that made me watch the show for “signs.” I don’t remember thinking Season 5 was bad or anything. Like you said, many storylines were compelling, but that’s where I noticed…

Not playing a game, just speculating. I liked Fury Road a lot, but I didn’t watch it for the first time until it was already on streaming, so I wasn’t following news about it. I’ll concede that true Mad Max fans were. I know that the decade that passed in between movies gets brought up a lot, but my take is that it’s n…

I’d argue that it started around season 5. That’s when the show started emphasizing action and Epic character moments that, while often effective and entertaining really marked a shift away from what made the story so strong in the first four seasons. I think most people gave the shift a pass because they felt like…

Sheeeeeeit… a man’s gotta have a code.

Furiosa is great: Another deeply enjoyable expression of director George Miller’s central cinematic thesis that sometimes you just need to make a movie about fucked-up people in fucked-up cars doing awesome, fucked-up shit. We don’t understand the people who refuse to go see it

i went to galaxys edge for the first time not too long ago. ive only been to disneyworld once in my life before and i dont go to theme parks. i loved star wars until disney acquired them so i went in prepared to be cynical.

Sure, I agree with that. But what I appreciated was that several gags that initially seem like throwaway jokes come back around and either move the plot forward or build to more elaborate jokes. For example, the dumpster-diving kids from the beginning of the movie help Seinfeld name the Pop-Tart. Hugh Grant’s Tony the…

My issue with it was what I feared after watching Fallout, which is that they’re running out of things for Ethan Hunt to do, so they’re recycling things. Like, it’s one thing for multiple entries to have a car chase. But several movies now have had Ethan chasing something or someone on a motorcycle, ending in an…

Being the ones to provide it bought a lot of goodwill.

I tend to believe a lot of organizational problems would be solved by changing leaders instead of the rank-and-file, but from a practical perspective, why would the people at the top lay themselves off? They’re at the top. I know most of us like to believe we’re not craven, soul-sucking sociopaths, but most of us are…

Good films flop all the time. And how will people know if they’re good if they don’t see it? The Toy Story movies are wildly successful. Toy Story fans don’t seem like a small audience.