Part of the theatrical release cycle is the tens of millions of dollars in marketing, building hype among the potential audience, and the ceremony of going to a theater, buying overpriced popcorn and soda, and plopping down to be overwhelmed by the sound and spectacle, so much that the rough edges get smoothed.

So then it sounds more like the movie theater is a good way to draw attention away from flaws more obvious on a closer viewing.

It’s not that she’s “destroying her reputation”, but that there’s a hedge of goodwill from Monster and the first WW that makes us all willing to think that WW84 was a fluke. It’s just that her recent remarks about the state of streaming cinema are starting to eat away at that because they’re coming across as “My art…

Right? I know a few folks left, but it feels like the last days of Splinter here

Waiting for the: “Don’t criticize the Chinese Cultural policy against effeminate men, sissies and gays are actually destroying society” tankie.

There was A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila but that was kinda gross. I do like the idea of a season where two of the contestants just decide the main guy/girl is a dud and fuck off together.

Misnomer. The English title was actually Skyautumn

I’m glad Emmerich read Seveneves and realized it’d be a pretty fucking boring movie (great book, though!) and decided to do his own thing.

I mean hell, I’d almost be fine paying Sony that extra $200.

It’s absolutely worth a replay on combat alone, since you’ll know the extent to which it goes and can plan accordingly.

It works well as a half-hour dramedy. I can see it having Netflix syndrome if you streamed it back-to-back, but watching an episode weekly should stave off any of that long-slough feeling.

It’s pretty common in rap nowadays. You can have a couple of mixtapes/EPs or even just have a great feature and suddenly enter the hype cycle where you’re at every big festival and in more features than you have songs. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, but yeah, sometimes it feels like folks have been around forever and…

Friday by Heinlein is practically a gazetteer of future technology.

I dunno, they’re both mentally ill men that took a shot at the presidency...

The man’s terrible, but I don’t blame him for that. Your son dies and gets memorialized by a song. To the extent where it’s his most well-known song to a couple of generations. Wanting to move on from that needs to be a conscious choice.

My first thought was that Bieber was an odd choice, but when I started thinking about it, there’s just a dearth of established male solo pop acts. So he’d kind of get that position on my list by default for just existing. Though if Styles maintains quality, he’d easily take the spot in a couple of years.

“Ugh, another Clinton hit piece?! They have her beating up a 5 year old!”
“That 5 year old is Sarah Palin”
“Ugh, another Clinton hagiography?!”

To be fair a hit piece on Clinton already drastically altered the political landscape as it was the basis of Citizen’s United.

I mean she’s compensated for it...

They’re banning people streaming it? There are lots of games that I want to play, but I know that “gitting gud” takes a time commitment that I don’t always have. What I can do? I can watch someone stream it while I do other things.