“Jack did his best work with Stan. Steve did his best work with Stan.”

That would be nuts, the series already has an absurdly stacked cast which is just pissing money down the drain for a disney + series imo.

That first sentence seems to be in error, as far as I know there are no returning actors from any other Tolkien adaption in the series.

Jackson isn’t one to really care about New Zealand workers. In order to lure the Hobbit the conservative New Zealand government passed outrageous anti union laws so studios could hire actors on the cheap. Probably still in effect to this day.

Insightful post, agree with your point about him working the divorce into the narrative but feel the need to be a pedant and point out he’s not /that/ recently divorced. I think it was sometime during the run of Nathan for you which is many years ago now.

The kind of mealy mouthed bullshit this website would have savaged a long time ago.

It’s not a nested thought between points. The first three sentences of the paragraph, of which you quoted the middle sentence, combine to form a linear narrative progressing from A to B to C.

Kevin Fiege isn’t gonna fuck you bro.

I really dislike the use of “fans” as a catch all term. It’s a hacky writing trick to deflect authority from the author and, as these comments attest to, in this case it’s not even accurate! Who cares what "fans" thought, just tell us what you thought and make a convincing case for it.

Not really accurate though, I think people are misremembering just how bad game cutscenes were. I would say Shrek 1 is equal to most PS2 games and Shrek 2 reminds me a lot of early PS3 CGI renders.

To take The Wire as your example, it’s never as simple as just “expanding the frame’. In that case there were documented problems with lighting, visible equipment, out of sync actors. More likely than not all of these problems exist with Freaks and Geeks too. Rectifying these problems for The Wire meant a crew had to…

Yeah but what about the original aspect ratio though? Here in Aus when the show got updated to the HD master it also meant removing the ability to watch it in the original 4:3. Absolutely shits me, it would cost them nothing to have two separate streams available.

This seems like a very patronising attitude towards children. Sure kids will enjoy anything aimed at them in the moment and can devolop random fixations, but once they reach a certain age they are capable of distinguishing between something competently made and total garbage. They may prefer the garbage for whatever…

That’s just splitting hairs, she’s a “civilian” in so far as she’s not working for a spy agency, but the point is she can almost match Cruise in terms of stunts.

Oh yeah as a fellow Australian I found the utilisation of the setting thoroughly disappointing, out of all of the MI movies I think this one really shortchanges the tourism aspect. They go to the races, there’s a scene out in a desert cattle ranch somewhere which I did think was cute, and the rest of the movie is in…

Rewatching the mission impossible films and the first hour of mission impossible 2 is probably my favourite part of the franchise. Tom Cruise and Thandie Newton actually have chemistry in this totally insane, alien way. The only way Tom Cruise can realistically emote with other humans is when he’s in awe of someone…

China’s government is nothing like the Democratic party. They’re better organised, have a tighter grip on the country from a federal level, arguably more authoritarian, fairly isolationist, all of which helps when it comes to locking people down. As the article you posted itself mentions, Europe failed to curb the…

If Joe Biden was president you wouldn’t be leaving your home either. Even Joe himself estimated there would only have been a mere 100,000 COVID deaths with him as prez, eg. still one of the highest numbers in the world. Fact is plenty of countries have fallen to the ‘Rona that aren’t led by a 75 year old man with…

You need to learn to seperate the art from the artist. And the things you’re accusing him of happenned decades ago.

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