A distributor exerting creative control over something they presumably only have the license to stream is, to use one of the internet’s favorite words, problematic.

I really wanted to like it since I’d heard it described along similar lines, but as I mentioned, I didn’t get very far into the film. Maybe I’ll give it another go at some point.

This Hellboy is really into Heavy Metal.

Just FYI, I believe in a recent interview Harbour referred to his Hellboy ‘suit’, such that the actual body was something he wore (same as Perlman), rather than going the Hugh Jackman route or some such.

What I saw of Noah was not particularly interesting, but Aronofsky returning to Christian themes by getting weird with it sounds a lot more appealing. Even if it ends up being too much for me, it’s just nice to know the weird stuff still gets made.

Happy to hear this is being so well received, although not sure I want to see yet another iteration of ‘person befriends creature but The Man gets in the way’, even if they go full sexytimes with it.

Superstar Saga (I think it was that one?) was legit funny in a way that I was not expecting at all. 

The history/ongoing issues behind it sucks, but stuff like this is also just another example of how fascinating all the technical stuff behind making movies can be.

Huckabee is so consistently, nauseatingly unfunny on Twitter that it raises some serious mental competency concerns.

Well, I actually kinda like the uniforms, so that’s... a good start? Please just be good...

I mean, I’m sure I’ll end up seeing VIII if only because of Johnson, yeah. I guess I meant not so much pre-judgment as more just having absolutely zero expectations/not spending the emotional energy to have “mixed feelings”. Which is maybe a pedantic and niggling distinction, but still.

Honestly, this is the clearest indication we could ever hope to get that it’s totally fine to just let go of any investment in where these films are headed. They’re signalling what they want out of this and there’s absolutely no reason to think it’ll be anything else.

HA.

Anything that results in more Daniel Dae Kim is fine by me.

A curious review but one that makes total sense based on McDonagh’s previous work. Maybe this is just my cynicism showing, but that bit about showing empathy towards all the characters reads like it’d wind up being a situation of false equivalencies and the in-vogue forced moral grayness that tends to end up being a…

I thought it fell into the trap of being too similar to the parodied material - i.e. unpleasant for the same reasons - so that it just ended up in a “have your cake and eat it” type situation.

“But how was the film?”

“Maybe stop keeping the wound fresh, maybe wake up a bit”

Perhaps, but I think it’s also worth acknowledging that part of the actual appeal there is that the apocalyptic scale conferred a degree of moral clarity and justification that was sorely absent looking at the asymetrical warfare from the other side. The issues were the same, but there was the overriding fight for…

(On re-read this sounds like I’m missing the point of the article, so to be clear this is just speaking to my own experience, not offering a counter-argument or anything like that)