It knows what it wants to be, and is very successful in being that. It’s kind of dumb, but I had more fun watching it than a lot of tentpole movies, despite thinking it was a bad idea to do a Venom movie without Spider-Man. I think most critics were too hard on it.

Grace and Frankie seems like the exception that proves the rule. I have no idea how that show is still going, given how Netflix cancels everything else after season 2 or 3. Do they just work really cheap or something?

Never Have I Ever might get another season or possibly two, because they don’t want to get on Mindy…

If something isn’t on that list and it’s produced by Netflix, you can pretty much rest assured that it won’t be renewed. Netflix would rather produce hundreds of one-season shows in hopes of stumbling onto a superhit than produce dozens of shows and renew the ones with promise.

Okay, so this aspect of the game is super-confusing to me, and my experience doesn’t gel with what you said. I swapped Karnesis for another slab after infusing it, and while I didn’t have it for the rest of the day, it DID show up in my loadout screen on my next day.

So I THINK, and this actually makes it extra…

I don’t know, everybody responds differently and all that, but I was pretty skeptical about The Force Awakens going in, and Han’s death still hit hard. I think it was well-utilized in setting up Kylo Ren’s character, too, and differentiating him from Vader. Kylo’s not someone who was “seduced by the dark side,” he’s…

The funny thing about The Last Jedi is, it’s not even THAT different itself. It cribs its main plot elements from Empire (the mentor plot you mentioned, the side characters going off on a separate adventure that ultimately fails while building their romantic plot), and follows that movie’s structure to a T (well,…

I’ve read Pauline Kael, and I’m aware of the impact blockbuster movies had at the time. It’s just absolutely dwarfed by their prominence now, though.

I agree with most of that, especially that indie/foreign films have more visibility today. The difference is that there used to be a whole slew of films with ideas that were too big to be serviced by an indie budget, but too “risky” to be mega-budget $100 million blockbusters. Those just don’t get made anymore.

As for…

Total nonsense. There was plenty of variety in film during the 70s and 80s, through to the late 20th century/early 21st century. Jaws and Star Wars kicked off the idea of the big blockbuster picture, but the existence of those movies isn’t the problem. Hell, they’re great. The problem today is that nothing outside of…

If you’re talking about interconnected universes and sticking to one overall tone, yes, I agree Marvel has been largely alone in succeeding there. That’s what I’m talking about when I say that what they do is difficult. They did an incredible job laying that groundwork, and Kevin Feige is one of the most successful…

Right, but nobody’s arguing that box office returns DON’T shape the industry and what gets made. What I don’t get is why people get upset anytime a director speaks out about how the result of that is a relatively homogenous set of “product” with limited artistic ambition. Villeneuve’s movies are a minority in the…

Kind of a bummer that your first instinct is to position box office returns as more important than creativity and originality. I get that that happens, and there are industry politics, etc. etc., but I also appreciate when directors of great movies (and Blade Runner 2049 IS a great movie) have the integrity to speak…

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Yes, if you already know all of the solutions, you only technically have to do it twice (or is it 3 times? First to learn about why your wife is accused of murder/about the watch, once to show him the photo and prove your wife wasn’t there, and once after learning about the father saying “monster”). But if you’re…

I played it, and yeah, you didn’t miss anything other than the unintentional hilarity when it drops the incest bomb and gets all melodramatic.

Yeah, it’s wild that in a game whose structure begets a whole bunch of branching scenarios, there are only two that actually progress the story: drugging your wife and torturing the “cop,” or convincing your wife that you’re in a time loop. Everything else is superfluous. And then even THAT is made irrelevant by the…

There’s absolutely no way that Master Chief isn’t the player character in Halo Infinite. Especially after everybody hated the campaign for 5. Infinite’s campaign is 343's mea culpa, hence why it’s set on a Halo and has an art design influenced by the original games. They’re doing everything they can to play into…

Isn’t it at least a LITTLE ridiculous that they’re charging $60 for everything, though, when re-releases on other consoles tend to be $30-40, or $60 for a whole trilogy?

I’d feel this way if Nintendo were also releasing new titles for the people who stuck with them through the Wii U days, but they’re not. They’re just re-selling the games we played years ago for $60.

Nintendo’s barely put out anything new at all for years now, so I don’t think you can really wave everything away with “resource allocation.” The Switch’s library is dismal if you’re looking for new titles, because Nintendo has realized it’s way more profitable to just re-release their old stuff for the full price of…