I can't wait for everyone bending over backwards to defend the one episode that is just blatantly super racist and is also kinda shit anyway so it's not even worth defending in the first place.

"…there is arguably room for writers to do right by the character."

Fear not, concerned foreigner: we totes roast the shit out of potatoes. What you heard was merely Communist propaganda.

No one knows how to without sounding drunk themselves.

I think what ties Fight Club and True Detective isn't so much strictly nihilism as their attempted examination of masculinity. TD tells us Cohle is fucked up but is clearly in love with him, particularly as a man. FC shows us how "Durden" goes through a similar nihilism-couched-in-masculinity and follows that to the…

Ok but is it the actual Good Bad and the Ugly or is the pointless new extended version that seems to have wholly supplanted it, Lucas-style?

I love some Tarantino films, dislike others, but Kill Bill Vol. 1 is the only one I've seen that was actually just… boring. It's stylishly going through the motions but never ratchets up the tension, which is bizarre because that's the one thing Tarantino is consistently good at. I understand why it got the love that…

Not the whole thing, I gave up partway through. McDonagh did In Bruges before that, though, and that's one of the fucking greatest movies ever made, so he gets a pass.

Kinda sounds like this just splits the difference between Donnie Darko and the Lovely Bones, plus the annoying kid from half the "literary" books of 2001-2011 for good measure? Is the kid more or less of an annoyingly precocious little shit for being dead?

On the other hand it would be absolutely fascinating if they developed a game as part of the training itself. A VR version of London as some kind of training wheels or something.

Alternatively, the reason they're bringing on so many characters for this one is to kill swathes of them off at a time. It will, however, feel virtually indistinguishable from the version you described.

A good thing for every budding screenwriter or director to do is write up their whole wacky and/or edgy action/crime movie - because of course they have one - go buy some fireworks, take it into the desert and just blow the fucking thing to kingdom come. Gets it out of your system and avoids forcing anyone else to put…

Resident Evil 4?

On some level I kind of don't even want them to do some sort of redemptive Old Man Kratos thing. Just let him still be a shitty edgelord murdering another pantheon for dumb reasons, so people can't pretend it wasn't just as stupid the first time around.

I mean it would be kinda funny/cool if they brought in a London cabbie with The Knowledge to provide expert guidance.

I know big budget TV series are where all the money is these days but if ever there was a source for adaptation that demanded to be an animated movie, this seems like it would be it.

Don't go to hotels with metal detectors. Sure you feel safe inside, but what about all those assassins waiting outside with guns? They know you ain't got one.

It's actually a perverse incentive system. Whenever an action movie goon dies the surviving goons split up the dead one's paycheck, so the more the others get killed off, the more you get paid. It's a balancing act of being the last guy to survive and making sure you actually take down the attacker. That's why when it…

So like, Fawlty Towers but with more murder?

Death, maybe?