I think you might have misunderstood that comment

I guess that it’s no longer considered “a good idea” to fly up in a helicopter and throw shit at people on the ground. Just another victim of today’s woke culture.

The use of practical effects is what made Fury Road such a bad movie.

I will never understand what people’s problem is with a movie pitched firmly at five year olds doing well at the box office. Having sat through a great many movies meant for that age range, the Mario movie was basically Citizen Kane for kindergarteners.

I think what we will see is AI doing what it was always going to do. Be a tool for creatives to output content easier. Just as it happened with computer animation via flash and toonboom, with 3d animation in the computer age, and even with rotoscoping before it. It will be a tool to output more content and remove some…

On one hand this looks well done. But on the other, why a new title if it is just basically a remake of the film. I was sort of hoping for new material.

Every three months a new movie comes out that’s marketing campaign is like “FINALLY A MOVIE MADE BY A WOMAN”.

To be totally fair, they see it as a two-hour toy commercial because, well, it is a two hour toy commercial in large part. It’s not just a toy commercial, of course, and it’s not fair to look at it purely through that lens, but let’s not act like they’re wholly wrong to view it that way. It’s like like everyone involve…

This is a fair point. Mirror villains are a proud tradition in comics. I just can’t believe we’re STILL doing it in the year 2023.

Why don’t you want more movies by and for women?

Mirror villains are pretty endemic in superhero films in general, even good ones. I guess on paper it’s meant to contrast the protagonist against an unscrupulous version of themselves, but in practice it’s been done to death and just feels creatively bankrupt.

I’d explain why, but it’s unclear. Ask again later.

Why not both? Like things like The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island where IP characters play roles as if they were actors. You could have a version of Infinite Jest with Mario as Hal Incandenza (hey, I’ve played Mario Tennis; they both like the game).

“Right but no one is doing that or has ever done that.”

Yeah it’s like how everyone was groaning when Super Mario Bros. made a billion dollars, because now “Nintendo is gonna make Zelda and Metroid and Donkey Kong movies.” Well, yeah. They’re a video game company that owns a lot of video game IP. Mattel owns a lot of toy IP. They can either not make additional movies after…

To attain that goal, it would probably help not to mostly ignore contributions from half the industry though.

Not sure he’s drawing the right conclusion here either. There are plenty of movies that are by / for certain people that still suck. The lesson is to make something clever, creative, fun, and/or moving, with plots that make sense, fully-formed characters and dialogue that doesn’t make the audience embarrassed for the…