I feel like any of the projects mentioned would’ve been an odds-on favourite to be better than an Avatar sequel.

It really sucks that this guy got a fat payday out of writing that .. thing, rather than having to forfeit his home for it.

This is the movie Bohemian Rhapsody would’ve been if Bohemian Rhapsody had been good. Both getting the same grade seems a bit of a crime.

I’ll 100% take The Dark Half over the worst entries in the Dark Tower series (to wit: The Gunslinger, Wolves of the Calla, or The Dark Tower.)

At first glance, without context, the headline seemed silly. But then.. oh, yeah. Planescape: Torment. Well, yes.

You shouldn’t invent a genre if you don’t want to be identified with it.

Richard Stark was the inspiration for George Stark in Stephen King’s “The Dark Half”, the story about a retired-and-buried pen name that comes to life in the form of an obsessive straight razor-wielding psychopath, ostensibly the kind of person that would write that kind of fiction.

And on the pop side, it was peak Backstreet Boys/Mariah Carey/Ricky Martin/98 Degrees/Puff Daddy times, so pretty bleak all around.

I love Magnolia, but honestly I would’ve cut Mackey. He’s so broad it feels like a comedy sketch where the jokes aren’t landing. And his whole deal just doesn’t sit well with the rest for me. It’s like ice cream sundaes in the middle of a sushi buffet.

How much extra to not have to take ESPN?

The two-for-one punch of combining rank hypocrisy with being the single worst song of the 90s really makes New Radicals a leading candidate for permanent admission to Room 101.

This really was an exercise in hacking out all the best bits with a rusty cleaver and proudly serving up the bony carcass.

..wha?

Dragonlance has some potential, but it’d have to be adapted by someone who doesn’t love the novels toooo much. Otherwise the result would be like 3x3 hours of someone telling you about their tabletop campaign.

Just make Acquisitions Inc. The Movie already. I mean, it’s right there.

This is even more messed up than the Marvin Gaye thing. There is no noteworthy resemblance. This is like giving the royalties for, I dunno, “Royals” to the Beatles because it resembles “Yesterday” so much.

Are they? I think apart from that iffy special Big Mouth is pretty remarkable and Tuca & Bertie was uneven at best.

I’ll put Fargo over The Sopranos or The Wire any day of the week.

“..you spoke to him about the technicalities of the deal in German?”

These kind of meme-y crafting videos are all just arbitrary nonsense. I think it’s good that they’re fully leaning into it instead of making another “you only need some string, a hardback book you don’t want any more, a Zippo, glue, horsehair, and two aluminium cans to make an unattractive cell phone cosy!”