I love Scorsese, I love the Grateful Dead and Long Strange Trip was wonderful. Yes to this project. Now who should play Pig Pen?

Call me when they make a Phish movie.

For years the fans have been demanding it. In 2002 Sam Raimi released his first Spider Man movie, and fans were wondering, “Where’s the living vampire?” Surely, they wouldn’t continue making Spider Man movies without Morbius. But more Spider Man movies kept on coming. 2004, 2007, 2012, 2014 all saw the release of more…

I don’t think Jabba’s empire was confined to Tatooine, just based there; he seemed pretty feared and well-known throughout the galaxy.  I think Tatooine is just the space equivalent of “that run-down Italian restaurant the Don works out of.”

So you’re saying it’s around 63% Barsanti?

Meh, I didn’t plan on seeing it anyway and even if it is awful so many people who are not serious reviewers but count as reviewers will give it a positive spin so it doesn’t go below 50%. I don’t plan on seeing this just like I didn’t see Black Widow or Shang Chi and haven’t watched the TV shows.

Elie Kemper would like a word…

Actually, this might be the least-douchiest thing he’s ever written. Completely inessential and pointless, sure, but on the obnoxiousness scale, this really only gets maybe four or five out of ten possible Barsantis.

Having read them all I’d say read 1-6, read a summary of 7-10, then read the rest. I think it’s important to read the first book knowing that Jordan was *intending* to do a retelling of Fellowship of the Ring with a different framing. He wanted to couch the intro to his world in something comfortable. The story goes…

Well, that’s the problem...a good deal of the series was generic and tropey.

I was very confused by that. I haven’t read Dune and I feel like in the movie it did come across as basically - emperor replaces Hakkonen with Atreides, then immediately teams up with Hakkonen to take out Atreides. I was like, why bother?

You’re remembering incorrectly, except that you correctly perceive the attack as being rushed. It was. The book spends almost no time on Caladan and the Atreides have time to get at least more comfortable living on Arrakis.

Nothing will ever redeem the prequel trilogy, even if I agree that there were some good concepts and fantastic ship and set designs but at least they’re memorable and at best, they spawned the superior TCW series and many of the shows that followed, like TBB.

There’s a lot going on in those movies. Deeply flawed as they are, there’s enough to like in them that someone could make a case for liking them.

it’s not going to happen, pretty sure i read in an interview with various members of the writing staff/cast that there wouldn’t be any need to depict COVID stuff because these characters are so rich and insulated that the pandemic barely even registers on their radar. (which is... depressingly accurate.)

To me, Willa seemed... humiliated. Yes, sure, when your dreams crash and burn and your billionaire boyfriend, who has backed you and is losing a lot of money due to your failure, suggests that you could at least make back some of the money by actively encouraging people to hate and mock you, you’re not going to say…

There was one element to me that didn’t quite work, partly due to the format, and that was the Emperor’s plan.

No comment no comment. 

Mostly a table-setting up but it’s Succession and it’s perfect. I love watching a show where you can tell the people working behind the scenes just feel absolutely confident in what they’re putting out there and fully understand the tone they’re going for and the world they’re depicting. And Succession feels like that.