I am a big fan of costume dramas and comedies and I’m always up for an anachronistic portrayal but I DO feel like the unfortunate majority of period heroines are anachronistic. As many fair complaints as people might have about Jane Austen and the many adaptations of her work I’ve always felt like even her most…
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WHERE ARE MY SHOES?!?
And the thing is I understand the decision-making from both a generous AND ungenerous place! Ye gods what a bunch of stupid trend-chasing bullshit bereft of creativity or imagination, right? On the other hand, Amy Pascal was a lunatic recovering drunk and coke addict who could fire you on a whim if you didn’t produce…
Which is either Australian for banana or a drunk toastmaster banana.
Dammit. Now I want Bananas Foster.
No I’m pretty sure they mean The Best of the Best.
What’s a little ridiculous about this specific callout is that Clooney DID get shit-talked about his connections. But it was, you know, 30 fucking years ago or more. I get her point but she really should have chosen an example from THIS era, not the release of Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes.
This banana is all brown and on fire.
I bet you wrote that on your tiny, shiny beeping machine.
Current day? Sure. Back in the day? Eric was on the road to superstardom.
This ignores everything outside of the interview itself, which is frequently a sticking point for me in these conversations. IGNORE the “last name got me an audition” talking point. You still get to live in the town where the industry exists. You still have a place to crash just about everywhere you go. You don’t have…
It’s an interesting Ben Elton jam that asks the question, “What if you wrote a very broad, stereotypical britcom but it starred William Shakespeare?” I thought for sure the premise would wear thin by the second episode but imo it manages to not get tired. Part of the appeal is seeing how they translate “modern” sitcom…
I have a soft spot for the 80s film starring Helena Bonhama Carter. Gonna be hard to top it.
I was very saddened by its end, though the narrative was reasonably satisfied by that point. It COULD have continued on but I didn’t feel cheated necessarily by where it left off.
I quite like Upstart Crow and that is certainly not my preferred imagining of Willy Shakes. If it’s done well and I’m entertained, I’m pretty okay with taking the piss out of historical figures.
The MCU stuff I’m mostly just burned out, though there’s also my abiding distrust and dislike of Disney as a soulless corporate IP vampire. The Spidey bad attitude is heavily influenced by my time in development at Sony Pictures. I probably have both a more generous and harsher impression of development executives…
True. The main thrust was “The animated Spiderverse movies get a lot of respect and make a lot of money. Is there anything about them we could copy?”
Also, FWIW I read the Fire and Ice books prior to the show and while I’m a fan of both (including the much maligned last season/s), a significant part of me also got weary with Martin’s need to turn every fantasy genre trope on its head. All due respect to that narrative and other post-modern fantasy takes (I include…
I assume, cynically, that one of the reasons there are few MCU low stakes films is that lower stakes make it harder to justify inserting a crossover from Marvel IP Product 12948. Gotta catch ‘em all!
What’s weird about it?