in a review for a handheld device, i’d expect some kind of mention of how it feels to hold in your hands.

compare something like a Lindt plain milk chocolate bar to something like a Meiji plain milk chocolate bar, and there’s noticeable differences in hardness/texture. the softness of the Meiji bars are one reason why i never liked them. in general, i’ve always liked refrigerated chocolate bars because they’re harder.  

it was a response to the question “Was anybody really demanding a sequel?” - assuming some contingency of the 83% of audience members who thought favorably of the movie would want a sequel.

the original TE x Kanye stem player

Andy Serkis resume:

the very first scene of the movie, less than 3 minutes in, Bella Real says “The Renewal Program is broken. The city has been renewing for 20 years. Look where it got us. Crime has skyrocketed. Murder and drug use are at historic highs and we have a masked vigilante running the streets.”

to be fair, i only clicked on this article because i saw the header imagine and thought “wait, who is Chalamet related to?!”

real estate broker... french journalist... have you not heard of the Hollywood Foreign Press? they work in buildings. there’s your connection.

why do i expect some sort of triumphant scene where a plain clothes Chris Hemsworth lifts Mjolnir in the sky, a crash of lighting strikes him, and he’s wearing Natalie Portman’s armor. the bad guy is stunned for a moment, and he tries again.

“Natalie Portman gets her own poster for some sort of super hero movie thingy”

“the Mighty Thor” is less syllables than “Natalie Thortman”

“alright Natalie, we’re gonna hire a personal physical trainer to work with you 6 days a week. you’ll get buff! then, we’ll spend millions of dollars on CGI and body doubles to make you look like you do now.”

anyone else ever notice irl Tom Holland kind of looks like Jackie Chan?

the secret to making a successful movie based on a game that has next to zero narrative component is to base it on a fictional game that has next to zero narrative component (see Jumanji or Free Guy)

if they can turn a Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny commercial into a movie that’s fondly remembered 25 years later, they can do this.

would a Batman show have the same kind of budget (and scope/production value) of a Batman movie though?

the gifted grifter gifts grafts.

what’s the difference between a graft and a grift? a.i.

wait, i learned this in Econ class. that’s because snake oil is a “product” and NFT’s are “service”. wait, that’s not right. NFT’s are... uh...