People were right to be mad at that commercial because Apple doesn’t exist in a vacuum and the prospect of generative A.I. is threatening jobs in creative industries. But art is subjective, right? Art can and often does mean one thing to the creator and another to the audience. That makes art fulfilling.

I can get past all of the weird stuff like a cat being milked. I just couldn’t stand the constant narration of everyone’s thoughts.

I thought the movie was a lot of fun and IMO unfairly weighted down by an expectation for it to somehow elevate the genre despite its straight-to-streaming origins. I don’t think that’s why it flopped; I just thought some of the few people who saw it were unnecessarily harsh on it.

I can see how the legacy might have dimmed over time, though I’m glad it didn’t get additional seasons, but it doesn’t seem like Hughes forgot it because it lost relevancy. He just thought it was messy for some reason (why that is, I’ll let you decide).

Meanwhile, the first Toy Story is living over here in my head rent-free. I thought 2, 3, and 4 were all very good sequels, but also mostly excuses to hang out with the gang a little more.

Typically, the writer and editor defer to the director. If the director wants a line rewritten or a scene re-edited, they can usually tell the writer or editor to do it. Not always (not to mention the studio and the producers have a say too), but that’s how I was taught.

Eh. Someone should have marked this script “do not resuscitate” and given a second chance to something else.

I actually had to go back and check A.V. Club’s own reviews to make sure I wasn’t crazy. All A’s and A-’s. 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic even has a “Universal Acclaim” graphic on the show page. William Hughes might have thought it was messy, but yeah, this was a weird forum for him to voice that opinion,…

The animated Watchmen was supposed to be headed for a 2024 release, but the trailer’s framing of it as a “movie event” makes it sound like it’s going to end up landing on Max, instead of theaters.

I saw Turning Red first and preferred it over EEAAO. Go figure!

Hey, I agree with you.

A lot of people struggle with basic financial concepts, so it shouldn’t be surprising when writers struggle to articulate how the financial success of an event like Barbenheimer should trickle down to the workers.

I want to say something snarky like, “Because white supremacists aren’t cartoonish mustache-twirling villains that advertise their bigotry 24/7” but when it comes to Snyder, I think it’s because for most of his professional career, he has included objectivism in all of his works. Maybe he’s not doing it consciously,…

Luke Cage

They’ve probably never been to an Alamo Drafthouse and are basing that perception on an experience at one of the dine-in theaters that have popped up since. Though in my experience, the people that go to those theaters tend to be a lot more mature and quiet.

Yeah, I had a feeling when that guy said, “We’re only releasing 3 MCU movies a year” and people pointed out, “But there are four scheduled for next year!” that this was the one that wasn’t going to make the cut.

This. It seems really difficult for some people to wrap their heads around how creatives love what they do so much, many are just happy to be able to do it at all, much less be compensated for it, and how that can push artists to undervalue their skills and talent. It’s easy to say all these years later, “wElL yOu…

And worse.

They’re just renovate and rebrand to make it whatever they want it to be.