I will say that the one movie he directed but didn’t write is his worst by a fair margin.

Definitely didn’t feel this one at all. It exists somewhere in the space between Silence of the Lambs, Cure, and Hereditary, but isn’t anywhere near as good as any of those and felt like it kept undermining its own atmosphere (which is the only thing it really had going for it).

Sometimes an asshole is the most likely person to point out another asshole.

This is a great way of putting it, yeah. Both versions are told from multiple perspectives, but the book is ultimately concerned with how Jack sees things and the movie is ultimately concerned with how Wendy and Danny see them.

I don’t think that’s a flaw, just an intentional choice. The movie exists in conversation with the novel rather than just being the novel on screen, and while King clearly puts at least some of the blame for Jack’s behavior on external forces (be they alcohol or an evil hotel), Kubrick clearly believes that this lets…

Shelley herself said the Kubrick thing was overblown and that she mostly enjoyed the experience of working with him. It was a tough shoot with some shitty moments but greatly exaggerated in its retellings.

I wish we wouldn’t come down so hard on people asking the question “how long is long enough,” because those conversations are the only way to move forward!

They also seem to think that fame and fortune works like a ratchet and once you reach a certain level, slipping back is an unfair punishment.

Yeah, the case for Harris isn’t that she’s a good choice (she isn’t) but that she’s less obviously compromised than Biden. She isn’t going to drive anyone to the polls, but at least she isn’t going to drive anyone away from them.

Yeah, the “he’s not in obvious mental decline due to his age, he’s just exhausted to the point of near-illegibility due to the base-level demands of the job he’s campaigning to keep” defense is really not compelling.

So how much older is a 62 year old than a 23 year old in other parts of the world?

There were two women. One of them was in 2003 and met him at a book signing, the other was in 2022 and was hired as a nanny. I was talking about the second (“a nanny 40 years his junior”), you’re talking about the first.

They’re definitely doing this for shitty reasons, but Gaiman himself is admitting to the encounters and just claiming they were consensual, which is... questionable given that one of them was with a nanny 40 years his junior and it happened within hours of her starting on the job.

It didn’t strike me as terribly bizarre. X was about expression vs repression and that was just another element of it.

Cube Zero is terrible and Army of Darkness isn’t a prequel. Can’t argue with Saw X though, that was surprisingly decent.

Sports are equally terrible about those things. The tech industry is infinitely forgiving about them. Various religious sects actively support them. Multinational food / chemical conglomerates do worse things on a daily basis.

There was never a universe in which “Borderlands written and directed by Eli Roth” wasn’t going to get some visceral reactions just by existing. It’s like Guy Fieri bringing back the original Four Loko formula with a new flavor - the quality of the product is gonna be secondary to its sheer absurdity for a while.

Even in a medium with a remarkably high bar for obnoxiousness, Borderlands is pretty well known for being extremely obnoxious. It knows it and leans into it.

Those aren’t lore gaps, those are intentional omissions. They’re uninteresting at best and actively detrimental to answer at worst.

Normally I’d go to bat for creators over producers, but Fuller going wildly over-budget and claiming creative differences before leaving or being fired from a show is about as predictable as the sun rising in the east at this point.