Publicly traded companies are not necessary, and are inherently evil (sociopathic and exploitative). Privately held corporations may or may not be good or evil.

Can you provide some examples? I agree Lightyear was misguided (similar to the Cars movies but less lucrative).

Other than Lightyear and Elemental, has anything Pixar made since the pandemic even had a theatrical debut? Soul, Luca, and Turning Red all went straight to streaming.

I think South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is parodying stage musicals, not Disney musicals. Isn’t “La Resistance,” and the French boy who sings it, a pretty clear play on Les Miserables?

Love & Thunder’s mess is more on Taika’s shoulders. He clearly wasn’t interested in doing the film and should have said no.

I think we’re gonna get a lot of executives pointing the blame at audiences and their pesky changing tastes for the decline of movie theaters and “cinema,” but if movie studios want to point the finger and anyone, they should point it at Wall Street and the streaming wars over the last ten years. Every corporation…

The show can be both horrible AND a lightning rod for bad faith racists at the same time!

So you spend the entire article telling us the multitude of ways the show fails in every aspect of it’s presentation, admit that it was universally hated by people on both sides of the culture war, (One of the few pieces of content they DO agree on), and yet still feed us the same old tired, “Unjustified condemnation…

God, I hope and pray that the multi-verse trend would just die already. It can be done in smart ways here and there, like in Everything Everywhere All At Once, but otherwise it’s a trope that has been beaten to hell and shoehorned into so many franchises that don’t need it and/or it doesn’t make sense for in the…

Describing the giant confusing mess that is Kingdom Hearts as having “pulled off” anything is being incredibly generous.

He’s just a guy that got really good grades in business school.

Those aren’t “upscaled”, they’re changed/generated. They’re new faces. (and they’re almost uniformly terrible. I mean, holy crap, those three samples in the middle of the article are awful.)

I mean youtube has a huge audience of people who ruin things because they’re morons. Look at all those wankers “upscaling” film and animation to 60FPS because they have terminal gamer brain and treat a high frame rate as some kind of inherent moral good.

“Look I improved this movie by adding 400% more smear look how smo…

The domestic violence charges were dropped, yes. I’d imagine the dozens of screenshots and saved convos of him leveraging his position to send inappropriate messages to minors was kind of the bigger deal to the company that makes cartoons for teenagers.

I was going to say, the only correction I’d have for this article as an obsessive Halo 3 player from back in 2008 as well is that the Tila Tequila reference was less obscure than Alyssa made out!

I hate this. Why not just get rid of levels completely if you’re going to go with 100% scaling?

Agree 100%. She could have easily sold those lines with better directing. My best guess is they were being cheap and didn’t want to extend her booking on studio time to get all the needed takes. Maybe they also didn’t want to miff someone who’s not used to doing VA recording — which is why (PRO FUCKING TIP) studios…

The fundamental problem with trying to “buy” Nintendo is that they are fairly unique among companies in general in that they have “fuck you money.” Most companies nowadays simply aren’t allowed to bank the sort of scratch Nintendo has (shareholders get to pretty much all profits nowadays).

What I take from this obsession with buying Nintendo is that Microsoft/Phil Spencer don’t actually care that much about giving people the kind of products Nintendo is producing but rather they just want to own the IP. They want Mario.

What a bizarre article that communicates zero meaningful info for any sort of conversation. Brand tribalism is the absolute worst, and those slides stuck out a lot more than the sarcastic ones. Why dont you analyze the actual number of exclusives? the number is closer than you think. Why not analize best battery…