To be fair, Save the Cat doesn’t promote his (admittedly terrible) Stop or my Mom Will Shoot! as the screenplay you should emulate. He actually analyzes a lot of good movies. If there’s a complaint to be made about the book it is that he seems to like when great films follow formulas more than when they subvert them.

This is literally all anyone has ever asked. And I take it to reflect that Maya Hawke is confident enough as an actress and artist and comfortable enough in her career to know she’s going to be weighed favorably on her merits against her advantages and it doesn’t make her less if someone else got screwed over it. To…

Except the economic motivations of those hiring nepo children isn’t to fill a role that sells a lot of tickets, it’s to create a generational talent with access to the same network of contacts and producers that the parent had. Lily Rose-Depp, Scott Eastwood, Zosia Mamet. These aren’t actors getting jobs because…

Obviously he’s playing Turner D. Century. 

For me, I like the complete experience to be there when I dedicate time to a game.

Going back to my youth, the Onion had a story that stuck with me headlined

But I don’t want to play it, learn most of the story, most of the levels, most of the stuff, and then whenever it actually comes out play it again and try to recall what’s new and what isn’t. There are plenty of games to play in the meantime. (Including the phenomenal first one, which I only just got around to playing…

Because the ones you had to watch what you say around - parents, teachers, bosses - were figures of authority whom you were obliged to respect.

I think it’s a balance. Yes, the act of adaptation requires change, for practical reasons if nothing else; a film or a TV show works differently than a book. But the concept should still be honoured, or else why bother adapting it? If the creator wants to “make the story their own” why not ... make their own story?…

I don’t think that Legolas was alive in the second age, probably, but it would be far from the most canonically wrong thing this show has done to include him.

See, I don’t buy this argument at all, that it’s all the streamers’ fault, messing with what was fundamentally good cinematography. Because you know what movies I never complain about being too dark when watching on Netflix or Max or whatever streaming device I’m using? MOVIES THAT EXISTED BEFORE STREAMING WAS EVEN A…

I love Fury Road, but I’ve noticed Furiosa’s release was a way for many, many friends and relatives to “admit” they didn’t “get” or enjoy Fury Road. I don’t recall a sequel revealing that much ambivalence about the original before. Maybe Fury Road was more polarizing than people realize.

Why does that matter?   

Still hoping he let down his universe by not actually being Wolverine but a Skrull impersonator named Jack Human. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

Literally just make a show people would actually want to watch. It’s a bold strategy but it just might work. 

yeah that’s the flipside isn’t it? every few years they panic and go ‘okay reset! we need new readers!’

Fine by me. I don’t get the people being all “Who the fuck cares about Vision?” because like who the fuck is Peacemaker? Except that show ruled. Who the fuck is Blade? Oh, 2/3rds of those movies ruled? Okay then. You can make a lesser known comic book character work. If the show is good the show is good, and I prefer…

This Vision show has been in development since WandaVision ended. They’re not tossing out things they were already working on; they’re just spacing out the releases more & not greenlighting as many NEW projects.

Or they have chosen to be celibate for other reasons, which very likely means they aren’t interested in finding "love" on a reality show.