I really don’t think piracy is (or has ever been) the threat people just tend to accept it as being. Piracy numbers simply aren’t that high, even when something is highly pirated. Plus (and this is the more important bit) even when piracy is EASY for folks, its still considered awkward nerd shit that most folks don’t…

It’s weird how this film, which I remember being pretty popular on it’s Netflix premiere, still seems sort of underrated? I’m sure there’s a couple basic thinkpiece theses in there, like how “streaming makes things disposable” or “theatrical exclusives make things feel important” or whatever, but I’m pretty sure like…

From the clip up there, sounds like the dialogue is the weakest aspect.

The Devil’s Advocate was one of those movies that seemed to perpetually be on TBS/TNT for like 5 straight years in the 2000s. Like it didn’t matter what time of day it was, Devil’s Advocate was going to be playing. Sunday at 11:30am? “I’m a FAAAAAAN OF MAAAAAAN” Tuesday at 4:30pm? “LOOOOK...but don’t touch!…

On the one hand: Whew BOY is Amazon taking some serious swings lately. You gotta respect the ambition and the drive to try tackling some of this stuff, much less making it work (The Boys, Undone, The Underground Railroad).

They got rental store releases and the VHS was like $90.

So you recognize that the brand is confusing things for no better reason than their own financial benefit, you agree that it’s fuckery, but the reason you’re cool with the fuckery (which you admit impacts people - I never said it didn’t, I’m merely pointing out the impact is largely negative now because it’s causing…

Yes, that article is mostly what I was referencing. Note that he himself is talking about IMAX in terms of SIZE OF SCREEN, not shape. He says he wants it on as big a screen as possible. Because of course he does.

No it absolutely was not.

Yes. Things are better now

“The IMAX Version” on home video isn’t going to make your TV any bigger - it’s just marketing for “open matte” The extra height on the picture allowed by opening the mattes doesn’t make a whole lot of difference when you’re not actually getting any extra height out of the display, too.

Absolutely agreed this was one of the best episodes of Chibnall’s run, and even more strongly agreed that Whitbrook’s weird bent towards “Lore” pedantry is not only uninteresting, but it’s getting in the way of the actual “REVIEW” part of this review. Like, okay, we get it, you don’t know how to file this in your…

The show’s editing is probably the weakest aspect of it. There are frequently weird, odd pauses that - for a show where rhythm is as important as it obviously is - kinda sink forward motion at the worst times. This meme definitely points that out.

Honestly, I don’t know that this is good news at all? The animated series looks bad and is sort of boring and bland at best on top of that. Blade Runner 2049 was an amazing miracle of ambition and storytelling realized, but that had a creative crew that was damn near perfect for what the movie was trying to do…

Well you can think I’m wrong every day and twice on Sunday

At 52 Vanessa Marshall is too old to play Hera in live action.

I mean... we kinda have to see the movie first to even start to assess that, right? I’m not the biggest fan of how superhero films have subsumed basically everything in pop culture, in how the dominant form of superhero film is the live-action PG-13 epic, a form that does the least with all the opportunities superhero…

I mean, who’s next? Robin Williams?

But I tend to agree in the context of live action, Ed’s eccentricities so far are neither funny nor sympathetic nor in any way endearing them to the audience, but simply grating.

We’ve been here forever.