It seems like the director is trying to capture the original games’ campiness. The movie will likely be awful but at least it’s trying something different.

After all, Resident Evil is a franchise that’s no stranger to cheese

Writer: Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)

This whole thing reads like a deleted scene from The White Lotus. 

Sooo....Why aren’t the defaults the calibrated, accurate, sure-to-present-the-show-as-intended modes that are on every TV? Why are those modes always stashed away deep in the (buggy, laggy) menus somewhere, and why is it that all the options you need to untick to make your TV work correctly automatically re-enable…

. If a show can get 1.5M tweets over a weekend when it drops or 1.5M tweets over a span of 8 weeks, I’d bet the streamers would take the latter.

Finally, the closing chapter in the hilarious comedy trilogy!

Netflix is getting somewhere north of 2 bil a month through subscriptions alone (209mil subscribes anywhere between 9-18 bucks a month) so they can drop 1 bil for rights and another bil for production and I don’t think it’s really that big a deal, honestly. They’re spending 20mil a whack to let Dave Chappelle be a…

It feels like a more R-rated throwback to Xena or Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, down to the dodgy CGI and dodgier wigs.

the more people who go online and talk about it spreads awareness of the show and makes the audience bigger.

God, this is so much clearer and more concise than all the stuff I wrote! Thanks for this, I’ll be using it going forward. 

While we watched the first Mando season weekly as episodes dropped, what we’ve done with the big D+ shows since (Mando s02, Loki, Wanda, F&WS) is watch two episodes at a time every other week and it’s been more enjoyable.

But the point I’m making (I had a post either eaten or dismissed to this point earlier) is that so much of this “appointment TV” shit doesn’t actually help these shows as much as we say it does. The Netflix shows that don’t get talked about as “appointment TV” don’t get watched any less. They, in fact, tend to get…

I think this is something that a lot of fans fail to understand: loving Star Wars or Star Trek or Marvel or whatever does not mean that you have any stake of real ownership of it, nor do certain rights and privileges devolve to you because of your fandom.

but after Shaun of the Dead, which I consider a masterpiece, each of his films since have been some type of disappointment,

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I think the movie format raises all kinds of expectations that cannot be fulfilled, and causes viewers to enter the theater already resigned to preemptive disappointment. And generally speaking I think Disney’s nostalgia-focused approach to the saga, which all but ignored the expanded universe of the post-prequel era…

They’re gonna be fine.

I feel like this is closer to recitation of “conventional wisdom” than it is reflecting reality, though. For one, it overestimates how much “watercooler conversation” even matters, especially when it doesn’t happen at watercooler, and we can see precisely how many people are engaging in it vs how many people are…

I don’t know how many episodes they’ve got, but honestly they need to start dropping two or three at a time instead of doing this weekly drip-feed bullshit. Especially over the holidays.