RIP John Romita, one of my all time favorite comic book aritsts and THE definitive Spider-Man penciller. Also the first artist to draw the version of Black Widow that exists today:

A kid is a human being who is capable of imagination, self-reflection, and growth. Her first fanfic might be a carbon copy of someone else’s. Her third might be something completely new. Eventually she might graduate to writing her own novels. Novels that wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t written that first fanfic you were…

There’s a fantastic article in the New Yorker by Ted Chiang called “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” that I think explains the distinction (although he does leave it an open question somewhat). It helps to think of ChatGPT not as something that is generating new material in imitation of what it has been trained…

Dude, the fucking founder of the Wagner Group is a fucking full-on overt Nazi! Check out his Nazi rank insignia tattoos and shit he has showed off, proudly, publically! Also, Wagner Group - as inspired by Richard Wagner, Hitler’s favorite composer.

Far more nazis in russia than in Ukraine.. and Russia is currently the one invading neighboring countries in a voluntary war of aggression, committing war crimes, bombing civilians and generally actually being all the things that we despise the wwII nazis for soing.

PLEASE don’t describe Snyder as a victim of the failure of the DCEU films. While it’s certainly justifiable to empathize with the personal issues that he went through at the time, from the professional side of things as a director and producer he was well paid for films that lots of people didn’t like. He wasn’t a…

“Vast majority” is not data, and the buck does not stop with Kennedy - she has to report to Iger and Chapek, and they set the pace.

“Hardcore fans” are a tiny minority of people who love and watch Star Wars.

Yup. I was 13 when RotJ came out and I walked out of the theater muttering many of the same complaints people had about The Force Awakens - a mediocre retread of ANH with an emphasis on toys. Even Gary Kurtz parted ways with Lucas over his change in priorities.

Your daily reminder that you need therapy. Bob Iger set an unrealistic, aggressive release schedule by announcing a release date to shareholders before they had a script locked down. That scheduled caused the three films to have overlapping pre-production that further undermined quality (the scripts for VIII and IX…

Lol. She did nothing of the sort. Even if you don’t like any of the new stuff, the old stuff is still there for you to enjoy. So go read/watch that.

Honestly they could do that in animation to some degree, and that would be cool. I doubt that will be the case. If anything they bring Finn back but it’s not Boyega and that would be worse. I’m glad Daisy Ridley is coming back and I hope they let Rey do... anything? But I’m not really holding my breath for that tbh.

TPM did come out when I was a kid (i’m older than 33), and the movie does have issues, but at least it builds on things. It adds things to the lore that we’re referencing to this day. Palpatine, The Jedi Order, the state of the galaxy and the players at hand, it was all set up in TPM.

Yes, the movie has a lot of…

John Boyega and Oscar Isaac have both kinda disavowed the movies and have said to varying degrees they’ll never be back. Boyega particularly was so hurt by his treatment he said he’s done.

The only reason people are leaving disappointed is because they’ve ascribed this genius quality to Star Wars that was never there. The franchise has always been hokey and badly-to-OK written. The movies are fun, but it’s not Shakespeare and I’m not sure when or why we all started thinking that they were.

People are…

most of the cash just goes into holding funds, just making numbers bigger to make them bigger for that one person. At least the blow gets money moving into the economy!

What in the long history of James Cameron in general and "Avatar" in the specific made you believe that releasing one of those every other year was an attainable goal?

Your daily reminder that Kathleen Kennedy has been in tjis business for decades and neither knows who you are nor care about your uninformed opinion.

So why all the moves? Two words: writers strike.

You guys need major therapy for your KK Derangement Syndrome