What exactly IS The Naked Gun if it hasn’t got Nielsen or ZAZ? Isn’t that just another “funny cop movie”?

I agree about an Earthsea adaptation.

No it was a post about you eating poo, not me sniffing farts.

Okay B-dog, before I dive in on this one, I just wanna be real clear: what I’m about to tell you is very widely established and accepted in cinema, so if at any point you feel as though I’m making bold claims, you are absolutely encouraged to independently verify what I say to you. You don’t need to take my word for…

I disagree, there is a really longstanding tradition of framing gratuitous violence as seeking to reflect reality when it's clearly presented as spectacle.

Goodness gracious, is that sarcasm?

Did you read the whole post or did you stop when you saw something to be outraged by?  Keep reading.

Well yes, that’s the point I was making.

I think I agree with you, and I think that we probably ought to consider the possibility that Billy has been played by his own studio here, not audiences.

I haven’t seen the show, maybe it’s earth-shatteringly different in this regard, but most sex scenes are gratuitous in one way or another. There’s very few sex scenes whose depiction is broadly necessary, so there’s very few where the decision to film and include them isn’t driven by wanting to give the audience…

I am simply saying that the dragons are created with less money here than there, and that the cgi overall contains the same hallmarks (and makes use of the same workarounds) as any low budget CGI.

I do that these days too.

Go read Jenna’s other reviews for the show. There’s errors and oversights that are so large they make it impossible to engage with the content. You can’t even have a good chat about it in the comments because the actual substance of the observations are off. It’s not bloviating nerd pedantry, it’s a meaningful problem…

Yes that was an astoundingly poor bit of day for night. They have a long-standing habit of crushing everything down to hide the flaws in the CGI, and I’m wondering if maybe the episode was written and filmed as taking place across a longer time frame? Maybe those scenes with Rhaenyra and Daemon were originally written…

I accept that it's obvious in narrative terms but I think that the abruptness of its presentation caused a lot of people to do a double take, like many things in this show, so I don't think it's hugely surprising that it felt unearned or insufficiently explored to some audiences.  

I can tell when I’ve enjoyed an episode because the strangeness of your reviews seems so much more pronounced, Jenna.

Nah, we’re not there yet and I think you misunderstand the vfx pipeline for this stuff, or at least are mis-describing it.

I seem to remember the Playstation 1 game “Apocalypse” made a huge deal about “cyber-scanning” Bruce Willis’ likeness for that project or some bullshit. These guys are too late.

They should get Stuart Wellington to be a writer on the next one, just for completism’s sake.

Do you know what though? I don’t disagree but despite being totally bonkers nutzo, I do feel that in places it at least feels tonally consistent with the first one? That creates problems in and of itself because that tone isn’t supposed to support this kind of story, but I do think that occasionally The Lost World…