I’ll be honest, I know very little about Barney. I think I was a smidge too old for it. I remember my brother bringing some plushies back from our trip to Orlando, but I can’t remember if it actually aired on local channels, or if we just caught an episode here and there on the smattering of English channels we…

Brilliant take on all of it.

I like how Dune Messiah ends. Duncan & Alia in a good place. Maybe stop before Chani  dies.

I feel like this has always been the MO of the MCU. For all the interconnectedness, the stories are self-contained to the point of stepping on each other’s toes fairly regularly (much like regular comics).

Gattaca is one of my favorite movies. Still is. I don’t think it would have worked as a series though.

Since an adaptation of God Emperor would essentially star Jason Momoa as the reborn Duncan Idaho, I think they could probably make it work. There is plenty of action from the book to include and a CGI Leto could look pretty good if they wanted it to. Part Two will have to make a whole lot of money for them to pull the…

I thought it was great when I saw it in the theatre years ago, saw it again recently and still felt that way. Definitely would not want a TV series, though.

From what quotes I’ve read from him previously, it’s always sounded to me like Villeneuve means Messiah specifically. If it’s that short, perhaps there’s some aspect of it that he wants to explore in more depth than is covered in the novel, but I don’t think he’s afraid of ending on a downer.

This review saved too much for the swim back.

People keep talking marketing, nostalgia, saturation of Superhero movies - just make good movies and people see them. Top Gun was great - could have been a standalone, whatever, people saw it because it was a fantastic theatre experience.

I’m 34, and that pitch for a Barney movie sounds absolutely awful. First off, if I want a dark satirical takedown to Barney, I’ll rewatch Death to Smoochie. But more than that, Barney was a show for little kids, and as such, any nostalgia I have for it is tied into nostalgia for being a little kid. A cynical version…

To go back to this topic with a bit of a fresher take, I was just thinking through the claim I hear a lot people make these days of “Pixar movies aren’t as good as they used to be!” and wondering if that’s a) even true, and b) if yes, why?

Not only is Jessica’s pregnancy mentioned in Part One, Alia is shown as a toddler in Paul’s vision. It’s safe to say she’s in Part Two, the foreshadowing is very strong there.

My dad can’t remember that there was a second Death Star in ROTJ, but he can tell me all of his complaints about Lynch’s “Dune”. 

Yeah, but Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson are NOT decent writers. The writers adapting this have their work cut out for them and might be better off just staying on strike.

Nice is the footage terrible though? I always wished that it got a nice remastered director’s cut with all the cut footage but I don’t think that will ever happen.

I’ll be honest; I got nervous about a James Mangold Swamp Thing movie back when the early Dial of Destiny reviews first dropped. But I saw Dial of Destiny last night, and it was fine. I walked in expecting an offensive train-wreck of a film, and it wasn’t terrible. It feels like most of the film’s shortcomings, of…

Some call it Butlerian Jihad, but for those old enough, we recognize the Butlerian’s first name: GPT-3.

The David Lynch version absolutely excelled at presenting Arrakis as an already brutal biome that had been made even more barren via the environmental stripmining of the first Harkonen regime there.

This is the best take. Liking things and appreciating things.