Ironically, 2D animation is much harder than 3D animation. If you’ve not done both, you don’t realize the kind of skill and work it requires.

Yeah, the first one worked so much better in part because it was a tightly made, efficient film that wasn’t thinking about sequels. The sequels were dumb fun but overblown (thanks to inflated budgets and the need for bigger and bigger set-pieces) and totally superfluous - they essentially ended the series where the…

I can kind of understand why they wanted a big name (not that Cruise in particular makes sense in this movie). They’re brazenly trying to replicate the dynamics of the Marvel/DC/Star Wars movies to make a safely profitable series of interlocking blockbusters for beaucoup bucks (in both costs and profits). But in the…

All the story elements that were brought up as problems by critics and which didn’t make a lot of narrative sense seem to have been introduced by Cruise’s re-write. That rather tends to suggest the original script was better, even if it wasn’t great.

The problem is that Universal looked at Marvel and DC and Star Wars and decided that they too wanted a series of interlocking series that would make them hundreds of millions of dollars and used that as the basis for the filmmaking. So they’re all necessarily going to be dumb action movies that don’t have anything to…

Damn, she’s been consistently kicking ass in these hearings and I’ve seen a number of her other tweets calling out the Republican bullshit going on around them.

“Gun control will only happen if Ivanka got shot”

Jefferson Beauregard “Stonewall” Sessions III

I was wondering what the end of that story was, hoping it was “and then she told them to fuck themselves,” but it seems something got garbled in the telling. “Re: Entourage — CLARIFICATION — I had a bikini top on UNDER my top. They didn’t ask me to get totally topless. Sorry to disappoint you!” Brie wrote. That’s…

I don’t think I’d last long.

“But V as in victory and then next being 6"

“So the original Xbox must be the Xbox Negative One, right?”

That would be hilarious. I suspect it might be a bit too obvious for them, though. If they go that route, they might hide it in Roman numerals - “Xbox V” - so they could also have the “V for victory” association, etc. But I wouldn’t put anything past them at this point.

That would be hilarious. I suspect it might be a bit too obvious for them, though. If they go that route, they might hide it in Roman numerals - “Xbox V” - so they could also have the “V for victory” association, etc. But I wouldn’t put anything past them at this point.

Yeah, they not only wanted to avoid having “2" in the name, they wanted to imply something greater than “3" as well. But it completely screwed the possibility of ever having a coherent system of numbering - but I guess they want to avoid that anyways so long as Sony keeps turning out Playstations. It’s just going to…

When they decided to call the second console the 360 I really didn’t know what they were thinking over at Microsoft. I was really baffled by the decision to call the third the “One.” This leaves me equally confused.

They wouldn’t necessarily expect to be asked for that kind of pledge to the president, however. I get the impression that Trump’s demands from GOP legislators have largely had a negative effect - that the response is often an angry “we don’t work for you.” And while they might publicly try to justify his behavior or…

Trump’s not really part of any GOP tradition, though. However, he does have a history of valuing and demanding loyalty - even going so far as to say, in writing, that he values it above all other things, including competence. (And it seems to be his primary basis for employing people - which is why he has a hard…

When Eric’s wife joined the board, a number of animal welfare charities, including a few she was directly involved with, suddenly started getting funds from this foundation, including a horse rescue organization where she likes to ride the horses. The money also went to other organizations connected to the family,…

I wish I was surprised. This is the “charity” that spent a bunch of money on horses because Eric’s wife likes horses, isn’t it?