To be fair, neither did Lynch’s- that was the producers meddling

Neither of them is terribly good, honestly, but Lynch at least captured the feeling of a world where space travel is powered by taking a shitload of drugs. The Villeneuve version just isn’t weird enough for me. The technology designs feel too plausible. The costumes are too bland. The sets are… meh. Lynch made an…

The best Florida movie is The Florida Project. Moody and desperate, with Willem Dafoe as a supporting actor for a lead cast of nobodys, centered around kids who don’t know how miserable things are because, well, they’re kids.

Honestly, it was mostly the writing. He was just too callous all the way through. They didn’t stick with the “he’s a giant shit” characterization, but he was never a nice Doctor. But I do have a soft spot for the “Two Doctors” special.

Doctor Who has always almost always been sexy. Hartnell was sexy grandpa. Troughton was sexy uncle. Pertwee was sexy swinger uncle. Baker was sexy goofball. Davison was sexy prep school twink. Baker II was not sexy. McCoy was sexy college professor. McGann was 90s made for TV sexy.

I mean, I don’t see a problem with it. The system is the system, and at a certain point, you’ve gotta make compromises, regardless of what industry you work in. You can be critical of it while still participating in it.

Actually, I don’t get that from the quotes. I think he also thinks Superman and the Flash were mindless entertainment- but Superman was “one and done” and the Flash was “only a few weeks” of work- in other words, he’ll still turn up for a paycheck, which hey- acting is a job.

Now that Extraction is clearly a franchise, the biggest thing to talk about is the titular scene in every film. For the unfamiliar, the premise: Chris Hemsworth is a mercenary who is hired to extract people from dangerous situations. In the most recent film: a Georgian crime boss is in prison, and he’s forced his wife…

Problem: Joss Whedon isn’t actually funny, and the comedy he puts in his scripts is terrible. It only works when the actors can do a lot of heavy lifting. 

I mean, expand that time window. The show’s been around for twenty years, and it’s been consistently great.

Yeah, I’m stumped. Can’t think of the specific thing. It should have a classic rock vibe, something that evokes something like the Rolling Stones. Maybe something like “Paint it Black”. That’s almost perfect.

I mean, I don’t disagree, but it was an excuse to do a Transformers show with a Velociraptor, a T-Rex, and a Gorilla in it.

The animal mode (in Beast Wars) was organic in nature and shielded them from Energon radiation, IIRC.

In Beast Wars, the mysterious planet they land on is covered with Energon, which overloads them if they spend too much time in their robot forms. Thus, animal forms, which are resistant. Eventually, they need new toys, er, I mean, the Energon isn’t a problem anymore, and they get “Transmetal” forms, which are robotic…

It’s not great, but then again, all the large-scale chat apps have gotten really bad. It makes me long for the days of AIM.

Maybe I’m too cynical, but the idea that body cams are for accountability and not for creating a technical solution to a non-technical problem so that we don’t need to address the fundamental problems of policing is laughable. Like, I understand that bodycams are symbol of Doing Something™ about a Serious Problem™,…

> For now it sounds like a version of Far Cry publisher Ubisoft’s frequent claims that its games aren’t political, combined with “please trust us.” Given how rarely games do end up approaching serious topics with nuance and sensitivity, however, trust hardly feels owed.

No it doesn’t. It sounds like “we acknowledge…

Jesus Christ. It’s absolutely standard for bank failures to sell the bank’s assets in an attempt to make the depositors whole, because it’s absolutely vital for the functioning of the economy for people to be able to trust that they can put their money in banks. That’s part of the whole FDIC process: the Fed provides…

I’d argue that a fantasy setting is inherently not medieval. This one seems to be just “medieval with zombies”. Not saying that makes Vermintide bad, just it’s a different vibe.

Medieval Four Player Co-Op Zombie killing?