According to Deadline:

Out there in the ether is a brilliant little Taiwanese historical epic called Warriors of the Rainbow (aka Seediq Bale) that depicts the rebellion of one of Taiwan’s aboriginal tribes, the Seediq, against the island’s Japanese colonial rulers.

It’s effects are ropey, the English subtitles are poorly translated, and in…

Well, the Dahomey were slave traders, and the reasons for an all-female regiment were because they’d traded away their men. #yass #slayqueen #bossbabe

I believe the Michael Myers mask is also a call back to Max’s halloween costume from Season 2.

(Eddie starts playing Master of Puppets)

When Steve plays Vecna’s ribs like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones

I also appreciated the nod to Halloween - first by having Eddie wearing a Michael Myers mask, and then at the end, after Vecna gets shot and falls out of a window down to the ground, they show that somehow his body isn’t there. That’s gotta be a direct and intentional homage, right? 

Spoilers, I guess. I felt the only truly frightening moment was when the jock was threatening to break Erica’s arm. I thought he was going to do it, and I like Erica a lot. That felt real. Turns out the monsters were the dumbass jocks we met along the way.

“but even in the ’80s, would everyone just converge at that gun shop for a shopping spree at the same time?”

I read all of those words, every one, and I have no idea what I just read.  This reads like a stream of consciousness that takes its sweet time getting to the point, only to realize there isn’t one.

With the advantage of hindsight, I definitely feel like the sixth generation of consoles was the last massive leap in video gaming to date. 3D became a given rather than an awkward or experimental, Sony cannily helped push the last great home video format, and by the end of the generation Microsoft had created the…

“The phrase “generational leap” has become a bit ironic in gaming of late, especially given the minor leaps in console power marked by the transition from the PlayStation 3 to the 4, or the 4 to the 5. But it takes little more than a comparison between FFX and its immediate predecessors to see what a seismic shift was…

What bothered me about Lowery in Jurassic World is that in-universe his love of the original makes no sense. It was a theme park that fell apart on the first test run that resulted in the deaths of several people. There is nothing “legit” about it. 

Interesting perspective I hadn’t thought about before! Marvel does this too - Ant-Man and Spider-Man are both introduced as fans of the Avengers IIRC. Even Bond had this a bit and at least flipped it, with the bad CIA agent introduced as a fan of Bond (which is silly since he’s a fucking spy and his exploits shouldn’t…

Galaxy Quest was a successful way to do it.

I mean, does it really matter though? This film is only getting made because that nostalgia audience exists and will pay money to see it. The people who really want to see a sequel decades later tend to be the ones who’ll pay to watch anything.

So there’s no issue with cash-grabbing studios beating nostalgia properties to death for profit, but if they do, they shouldn’t have fan surrogates in them, and if they do have fan surrogates in them, they shouldn’t be given “rude” names, because that’s just disrespectful to the fans. Lol.

Afterlife definitely contains a lot of fan service, but I’d strongly disagree that Gary is a fan surrogate — he’s the only sane person in the entire town. Everyone else somehow forgot that ghosts turned out to be real. It’s like if you lived through 9/11 or the JFK assassination, wouldn’t you remember that?

Good thoughts and a big star for the Fondant comment—-if that’s all you got, I will opt for a simply decorated buttercream. Every time. 

Black Forest gateau (which, for whatever reason, is always called gateau and not torte or cake) was a British obsession in the 1970s which then became a national joke and has now returned to nostalgic fave. Every time a contestant does Black Forest, my English husband gets all excited about it. I made him a Nigella…