Yeah and that advertising is possible due to a number of factors but a big one is product placement which leads to the unfortunate implications of corporate fingers getting into the art bowl. If films require heavy corporate support where does that leave films that don't pander like that?

Yeah we're the guys who keep launching Jack Black piloted bi-planes around and harassing local cruise ships…it's a living. What specifically do you contract? Seadoos or Complicated Rube Goldberg Sailing ships?

I forgot that was a thing until this interview; I'm suspending House of Cards until I've rewatched all of it.

Did Hodgman's "What have you done today" just replace the pop culture best friend question at some point?

I can hear the Adam Curtis afterlife now:
"All our lives we're told one of two things; either there is a theistic afterlife or an endless void. In this documentary we will follow Evel Kareebel and his trip through an unending series of archival footage, pop music and my hypnotic voice"
*Smash cut to title written in…

But you're there forever which means you either can't die or you'll come back alive in some crazy "wake up the next day alive" situation…which would kind of make you a superhero wouldn't it?

That works! I more meant I don't want it to be an origin story…especially given how damaging that would be to the careful way lore and background information is fed to the audience in Adventure Time. Come to think of it they could have made the whole "Finn's Dad" arc a good movie IMHO.

Turn A Gundam, you've got Prohibition era fashion and Giant Robots it's tailor made for a Hipster Geek Doofus!

Now now, it's an airport with a hockey team…

Me too but I work as a weird smoking pirate so the film actually hits pretty close to home.

I once heard that a Paramount executive told the people making the first Star Trek film that the film's premise of saving the universe and all of time wasn't big enough; I get the feeling that's their attitude towards Blomkamp. I can just see him in the pitch showing them a fun robot movie and some stuffed shirt…

*Cobrastyle by the Teddiebears begins playing in the background as both Kevin James AND the robot lower their glasses to look at a girl in a bikini's cleavage but it's clear that the robot's just looking at an electric car or some shit*

if Chappie ends up gold plated I'll watch it.

THIS. This is my exact experience with D9. If you're going to do a movie that hamfisted you have to give it charm or humor or character and instead it's half Spinal Tap with Aliens and then segues into some weird mech suit halflife 2 fanfic thing. What's worse is that the moral of the story seems to be "this is what…

The unfortunate problem is that there are so many ways for a studio to make a buck outside of making a good movie or story, look at Transformers 2 which was filming before they had a set script and it still made more money than god. Hollywood as it stands only sees growth potential in 1 way - franchise building. They…

Which is dumb because Dystopia is everywhere these days. Compared to Short Circuit 2 which we haven't had since short circuit two. My theory is the first half will be good and the second half will suck; as much as I love Blomkamp's set ups I've never been super satisfied with the way he ends his movies—district 9…

Sounds like they got the right peeps for the job although I wonder how the show would adapt to feature length. I hope they skip the origin type stuff and just give us a top to bottom weird ass adventure time adventure. For me at least a lot of the fun of adventure time is in the subtext and the naivete of its cast.

Maybe it's like the Sikh last name Singh which if I'm not mistaken is shared by all Sikhs (or all male Sikhs I could be way off on this) or it could be like the Vietnamese name Nguyen which is just very prolific.

I'd always hoped this show would end with an epic battle of wits…or better yet; a battle of jazz!

Mine's from the same episode, him cutting down the doors and saying "Spaghetti Time" in a moment of deadpan glory: