The better example of the value of public domain isn't the things that have been created with Pooh and Steamboat Willie in the literal first years of their availability, but, well, most of Disney's best work of the 20th Century which were based on works in the public domain. Nobody has come up with a great new use for…

Also be prepared for the ghost of Bob Kane to take credit for your work 

Tuvix deserved to die. Because he was an abomination.

It’s like Universal and the Dark Universe — almost all of the classic UM characters were based on works that had been in the public domain for a century or more, it wasn’t a goldmine of unique characters like Marvel, DC, or Star Wars, there was nothing that was going to stop another studio from making its own movies…

What makes the original Exorcist great isn’t that it’s “scary.” It’s the relentless atmosphere of looming dread, and how that ties into the collective mental state America was in back in 1973.

But you also don’t even have to focus on a different demon or faith. Pazuzu is a real mythological deity and the Catholic church is a real organisation. You cannot trademarm or copyright either of them.

Boomer and Gen-X filmmakers have this weird notion that every movie or TV series from their childhood and youth is universally beloved and enduring, and can be turned into an ever-expanding franchise, when that’s true of maybe just a handful of properties — Bond, Batman, Star Wars, Rocky, Godzilla. (And Star Trek, of…

Mando has terrible pacing, even within the episodes (but also across the episodes). The majority of Clone Wars episodes have bad pacing (much less so Rebels, weirdly). Andor didn’t really have bad pacing but it sure wound people up with the whole “two episodes before anything much happened” structure being repeated…

Nominated but not winning isn’t a snub.

A snub is what happened to Reservation Dogs, which didn’t get nominated for any of it’s three amazing seasons (except in one measly sound engineering category this year) despite being one of the most critically acclaimed shows on television.

The Emmys have a long history of just…

Yeah, that seems how most Star Wars things go nowadays...

Exactly. My first reaction was “were they snubbed, or did they just lose?”

wasn’t a fan of the sequels but i am far, far less a fan of watching prequels to prequels to prequels.

So what, we’re just supposed to believe that random nobodies on the Internet will use literally any pretext to make up rumors about media they don’t like being cancelled? Yeah right, I’ll believe it when I see it.

Being nominated and not winning is not a snub.  Being nominated is a recognition all its own.

Seriously. Emily Blunt was great in Edge of Tomorrow.

I think a lot of fans failed to realize at the time that Lucas’ episode titles were tributes to old serials and were expecting something cooler or more basic, in a one-word 1990s action/sci-fi movie way, like Star Wars: Genesis or Star Wars: Origins, or maybe something that sounded closer to the old Bantam novels,…

This was in 1998, almost a decade before the concept of “likes,” and this was also before social media existed in anything like a modern form, and Internet fandom existed in a largely inchoate state, with most fansites being amateur operations rather than professional, heavily monetized businesses owned and run by…

It does make sense because, yeah. It’s really hard to care for anything because, for the most part, we know nothing about these characters. The worse are Shirtless Tarzan and Sword Lady, who actually do get a reason for why they wanna join Korra and why Bounty Hunter dude knows about them, but that reason is just read…

You may see this addressed as quickly as the second paragraph of the intro.

My God you people need to stop insisting that Fierce Creatures is a good movie. What’s next, praise for Bean?