It’s another way of saying “every single shot is a beautiful and perfect composition worthy of framing and hanging on a wall.” No stated nor [deliberately] implied dis of any other element of the film, including the performances.

Agree on all counts, except this is MORE and BETTER than what I envisioned. The detail, the texture, the light — it all feels exactly as it should (to me).

Oh indeed - BR2049 is two hours worth of just ... paintings. I have no fears that this won’t be “engaging” so long as he hews fairly close to the intent of the books. But if it veers a little bit “coldly intellectualized” rather than having the BIIIGGGGG splashy emotional content you see in Spielberg and maybe even…

As a very visually-oriented Professional Graphics Person, I am a world-class nit-picker if I think the interpretation a thing does not match up with what I believe it should be, and also I just fucking love and respect the hell out of these novels, but also I tend to be very intellectual/analytical about movies rather…

True, but they could’ve gotten around that issue right out of the gate by putting them up for sale immediately ... with all profits going to [BLM, ACLU, a favorite charity of CB or his family, etc.].

HAAAA, but yay I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! Def keep an eye out for anything from Scalzi — they’re all worth a read for sure. (Tho for anything that’s part of a series, you’d probably want to read them in order.)

UGH, I knooooow, now not only do you have to click on the link to your notifications page if you want to see if you’ve just got likes or a comment that you need/want to reply to, but also click over to the comment, but it doesn’t GO to the comment, or even LOAD the comments, so you gotta click three more times and…

Y’all need to fix your shit. Trying to load this page froze not just the tab but my wholentire damn browser for 10-20 seconds. Scrolling down far enough to start reading the actual article froze it again. Scrolling further to keep reading froze it again. Scrolling all the way down to the comments ... oh yes…

Nah, agree, the Space Action! stuff is obvs neither her forte nor her primary interest in writing what she does. But I didn’t really connect with the characters either? IDK, so much of the framing, opinions, characterizations, dialogue just seemed so weirdly and offputtingly ... dated and stilted to me. Contrast with…

Semi-related : Today I got an email from the WaitButWhy dude about his upcoming book based on stuff he’s been publishing on his site. I ADORE that site. However, the email also weirdly included some shilling for his wife’s startup venture, The Lanby. Which is a “new” (“disrupting” again, ugh) primary-care medical…

Heh, I mean I think that makes the series sound more 80s-retro-awesome than it really is, but go for it!

We already have Ugly Big Truthers, it’s called “The White House.”

I’ve only read probably half a dozen of the Vorkosigan saga books, and while many of them had appealing elements and a few of them were “pretty okay,” I just couldn’t get past the ... kinda soap-opera-ish-ness? Wow that was a mess — soapoperosity? Anyway, bit too much focus on romance/relationship dynamics for my…

It is, and SHE is! NK is waaaay up high on the list of Famous People I Wish I Could Be Friends With.

I think he’s fantastic and super-interesting looking, so I have to say “yes” even though to me personally he isn’t [drooooooool]. One of the things that’ll almost immediately make me nope out of a new tv show etc is if every fucking person in it is the same exact flavor of Conventionally “Hot” Young Person Du Jour, so…

Dooooo iiiiit. Concur with other replies — it’s srsly A+. (Which, you’d think that would be a given, for a Hugo/Nebula nominee, but a lot of stuff that gets nominated is IMO kinda ... not really Major Award Worthy.) (Sorry, Lois McMaster Bujold, but the whole “Vorkosigan Saga” is, like, fantasy-flavored Falcon Crest…

They ran out of time because B&W deliberately ran out of time. HBO famously wanted to go another season (or more), but those two chucklefucks were ooooover it and had honestly been kinda phoning it in for a while, and they wanted to waltz off to a big Star Wars [ha ha ha haaaa] or Lord of the Rings [ha ha fucking HA]…

[...] The Three Body Problem, which won China’s Yinhe Award in 2006, and Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novel in 2014.

I wonder the same thing on a regular basis (“is it 1997 again? who the fuck even wants this?”) and the answer is probably “because they can sell ad space in the email newsletters, too.”

I’ve gotten it two more times since I posted that comment. On Jez, on Giz, on Takeout. Sigh.