That anti-tank missile still being non-survivable (without a significant amount of mass as shielding), which is why the realistic proposals for probes plan for multiple, disposable probes.

Yeah, that grain of sand is a nuclear bomb, right in the face. (Or even multiple nuclear bombs - specifically, one “Fat Man” and two “Little Boys” stacked on top of each other. Anything more than a grain is equivalent to at least a modern nuclear weapon.)

The presentation alone on this is brilliant - it’s simultaneously something you’re controlling and interacting with in real time while also being the playback of an old video tape. It creates an interesting dissonance/contradiction that I’ve not seen any other game do. It goes beyond what Thirty Flights or Paratopic …

I guess I saw it less as a performance and more a hint as to what kind of approaches they might take with the character in his own film, some of which might have been interesting.  Although the more I talk about it, the less convinced I become, even of that vague hope...

Well, he was presented as an uncertain, newbie hero who hadn’t actually done anything yet, leaving room to actually develop him in his solo movie.

Well, we saw scraps of a performance, and given the nature of how the movies were being put together, probably not the entirely same version of the character that would end up being in his own movie. Especially since he was deliberately presented as an under-devloped character newly exploring his role.

I wouldn’t have minded seeing the Ezra Miller take on the character. Granted, that’s not exactly a burning need, but I don’t exactly to have a burning desire to see any superhero movies at this point.

The... Flash movie is never going to happen, is it? They’ll flail around and do some sort of reboot before it gets shot, and existing plans will go out the window and that’ll be the end of that. Too bad, I was vaguely interested in possibly seeing it, which is more enthusiasm than I can muster for any of the DC…

Yeah, Schilling ignored (and went against) business advice and game development advice, as well as being ethically suspect - he explicitly promised his employees that he’d not do things that he then went and did. It wasn’t so much that Schilling needed someone over him, directing him, but he needed to not be involved…

I watched the Hobbit movies on home video, and it felt like there was one solid movie’s worth of material in the first two films. Which is probably why I literally forgot I watched the second movie. I rented it a second time and wondered why they had these familiar scenes in the start. Since I was certain I had…

And what he was seeing was pure play.

But in some sense the amateur status is implicit in the word “play.” “Play” as opposed to “job.” The very term was coined in opposition to people in studios doing paid costuming work.

“If Branco literally owns the movie, then it sounds like he can release it for whatever profits it garners”

It’s not actually an adaptation of Cervantes’ story, though. It’s an original plot that just references The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha. (It’s set in modern times and a character believes himself to be the title character of the novel, and everyone else thinks he’s crazy because it’s a fictional…

When I think of always-optioned books, I think of Neuromancer. It’s been constantly optioned starting almost immediately after it was published. For decades, the option was held by amateurs who wanted into the movie business, so that pretty much guaranteed that it couldn’t be made. In the last decade there’s been…

“Another women who has decided that he is guilty because he has a penis.”

“And then the safe, with Jeannie in it, was stolen by interns who tried to sell it for $50...”

And it’s not just copying, either - it’s a deliberate homage. It’s all about taking art that was located in the future or a futuristic, contemporary, urban America, and the juxtaposition of locating it in what is now the past, rural Sweden.

What, you’re saying that referencing the work of Syd Mead and Ralph McQuarrie is so original that only Stålenhag could possibly do it? ;)

Stålenhag’s paintings are very much about a particular aesthetic (itself referencing the work of Syd Mead and Ralph McQuarrie) and vignettes of advanced technology as an integral part of ‘80s landscapes, neither of which are on display here. And it’s not like he owns the idea of “robots in the ‘80s.” No doubt he was…