Good grief, that figures.

It is also, sadly, the first Nintendo game to hit the $70 threshold.

Dean Thomas was black, IIRC.

I don’t follow this analogy. You’re comparing winning a lottery winnings to accepting charitable donations?

I wonder if any of the 1000 people whose vision he helped restore feel the same way.

Maybe Beast is fine, he strikes me as benevolent but uninterested in deep examination

I think turning philanthropy into a revenue stream is a pretty smart idea, if he’s using that money to fund future charitable efforts. Granted, it’s not right if dude is just using the cash to stockpile Lamborghinis, but if publicizing the funding of one good cause generates enough money to afford two more good…

Crab Mentality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

These jams don’t lie.

A revolver is never going to be actually empty in a film, though. Because the front of the chambers are open and visible, in non-shooting scenes they’re always loaded with dummy rounds so that the gun appears to be properly loaded when viewed from the barrel end. Dummy rounds deliberately look almost exactly like real…

Right. They’d need more than 50 people who never touch code, just to handle business operations. Global advertising management alone should need more than that if Musk hadn’t scared off most of the accounts.

Too late to edit, but I should have added that I know and appreciate that my experience is the exception rather than the rule. 

“that whole do what you ll love and you will never work another day shit is bs.”

I think Solo looks worse because of the success Rogue One had. It also had a troubled production (not as bad, but still needing another director to step in and save the project) and it didn’t even have familiar characters like Han, Chewie or Lando as a hook. It managed more than a billion dollars in ticket sales…

Sure, I understand all that, but I don’t know that Disney’s shareholders are that inclined to see much beyond the bottom line, and primarily noting that ‘Johnson made us $700 million less than Abrams did.” If the Disney brass were genuinely interested in looking past TLJ’s box office result, we likely wouldn’t be…

Viewed on its own merits, TLJ was a huge financial success, making over $1.3 billion worldwide. The problem is, it still looks like a significant disappointment compared to TFA, which raked in more than $2 billion globally. It’s entirely understandable that Disney’s powers that be would see a sequel that dropped a…

Something along those lines. Part of my dislike for Luke’s whole arc in TLJ is that there’s this big deal made about him seeking out the first Jedi temple on Ahch-To, but the uniqueness of that place itself isn’t relevant to the story at all. Having Luke effectively go ‘back to the beginning,’ back to a time and place …

There will always be a place for human artists in art.

lowering barriers to expression

As a rule, I don’t think anyone should ever hire Abrams to write a screenplay. He’s alright as a director, and he really understands the aesthetics of good production value (TFA absolutely ‘feels’ like classic Star Wars), but he has no idea what goes into telling a proper story. Abrams directing an Arndt script for…