It’s always such a baffling choice to remake a wildly popular/beloved film, because it’s highly unlikely that you’ll be able to make it as well or better, and even if you do nostalgia will mean that the original will be graded on a bit of a curve.

I don’t know if that’s a good comparison because I think Feig’s GB leaned (more like jumped in) in to that narrative really early on, if not immediately. 

Feig’s GB was bad regardless of the premise and casting. No focus, excessive dependence on one-liners. There’s a lot less ad-libbing in the original than people think.

Not just ‘cheaper’ writers but G/O Media are using AI, something SAG and the WGA are striking against.   https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23785645/go-media-ai-generated-articles-gizmodo-av-club-artificial-intelligence-bots

Lol oh yeah. Nice. Solid comparison. 

In related AV Club news, a website that ushered its former writing staff out the door and replaced them with cheaper, more industry-friendly writers is reporting on the plight of writers.

That’s kinda gross and interesting. Anyways:

I just could not get into Death Stranding. Even this many years later. I can’t get past Hideo’s enormous ego and bloated writing and let myself open this game again. For reference I thought Metal Gear was a fun series and feel like I’m supposed to care about this IP.

Conversel…

What’s wild is I’m old enough to remember when people complained they were getting ripped off by theaters with 80-90 minute run times because they could pack another showing into the day. That was probably a reasonable complaint but the idea that anything with substance has to be 2:15 or more is self-defeating (and…

I’m so confused about runtimes. Budgets and profitability are such a sticking point in the current strike — so why do studios turn out 2+ hour kids/family movies? A tight 90 min has got to be cheaper to produce (maybe not by 25% but certainly by 10-15%); plus, people want shorter films. Everyone complains about film…

Okay let's not act like the Eddie Murphy film is good.  Its pretty lame, there's a reason Pirates of the Caribbean is the only successful Disney Ride film.  Pity, I think Haunted Mansion is the best Disney Ride regardless of park, I wish it would get a good film.  Well I'm young enough to probably last another 20 to…

I mean, to be fair, the right tries to toss “muslim” or “islamic” as a pejorative into any situation possible and the left sometimes tries just as hard to avoid it. I think if this had happened with, say, a festival in Belarus shut down by some Eastern Orthodox church, there would have been mention made of the…

I assume Russia.

gosh, i wonder where malaysia got their anti-LGBTQ laws from?

“But Which We, If Questioned Under Oath, Would Have To Admit We Would Kind Of Want To Do”

How does going to see a movie protect children?

Can’t wait for the live action adaptation!

“People” might have, but I didn’t. I have the 4k UHD subscription, saved myself 20 bucks a month and cancelled it all. If I ever go back, it will be for a month at a time to watch a glut of stuff and get rid of it again. I’m not going to sit on a yearly deal with them when I can’t share it with my family.

I was once on a jury with Marc McClure, who played Jimmy Olsen in the Chris Reeve Superman movies. Alas, though we both made it through voir dire, we came in the next day to start the trial and the judge told us that there’d been a “development” and the trial was going to be postponed indefinitely, so we were done…

It can happen. I once did jury duty with Iggy Pop in Seminole Florida.

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