Jenny is a Star Wars nerd, a theme park nerd, and a theater nerd. She spent $6000 to go to this thing, and spent quite a bit of time defending things other naysayers have complained about.

Given the issues people reported with getting glitches / plotlines fixed, given how relatively short the experience actually is for everything it tries to cram in, and given how long it can take to realize things aren’t working (as opposed to just assuming it’s all working as intended and you must be missing…

The video won’t explain why the marketing was bad.

All of the sequels are about Max showing up, getting swept into a story bigger than himself, and then leaving when it’s all over as other characters get actual conclusions. Mad Max hasn’t been about Max since the 70s, he’s just the mythical figure through which these stories about the wasteland are told.

To be fair, Wednesday was the show I did hate for not getting the point of the IP. Mostly because The Addams Family always had something resembling a theme of cultural acceptance and family values that the show ignored, while Scooby Doo was always “a group of kids solve mysteries and get involved in shenanigans” and…

If I want a diverse and vulgar queer teen romance / comedy with selfish and violent characters who learn to be slightly less selfish I’ll just watch Bottoms again, because that movie was aiming for the exact same thing Velma was and actually nailed it.

I’d feel more for the man himself if he hadn’t spent a great deal of money, effort and time propping up the career and reputation of a convicted child molester for over a decade while also mocking and threatening the victim. As it is, that absolutely kills any desire I have to give him the benefit of the doubt and see…

It’s not out of relevance as an artistic work, but it is out of relevance as any sort of indicator of FFC’s current ability. The 32 year old man who made The Godfather is not representative of the 85 year old man whose most celebrated releases for the past few decades have been wine.

Francis Ford Coppola produced Victor Salva’s film Clownhouse. Salva, during the course of making that film, sexually abused the 12-year-old lead actor Nathan Winters. Salva was arrested before production finished, and Coppola paid for his attorney. Nathan was forced (via threat of lawsuit) to dub the film in Francis…

I’m not basing my guess that the movie is bad on executive opinions, I’m basing it on his best film in the past 30 years being a perfectly fine John Grisham adaptation and the other four being a precipitous drop in quality and inspiration from that.

Like I said, I want to see it because it does sound fascinating. But I’m seeing a lot of people assuming it must be a masterpiece because it’s Coppola, and again, where were they for his last few films? Canon shmanon, I’m basing my expectations on having actually seen the last 25 years of his output.

I’ll agree with that.

Yeah, it’s funny watching everyone tripping over themselves to praise a movie they’ve never seen and criticize the distributors who have seen it and decided to pass.

Plenty of people care about how they look even while using tech, and Apple has spent the last few decades aiming squarely at that market. These people were upset when the Apple logo on the top of the MacBooks stopped lighting up, and they sure as hell weren’t looking at the lids of their laptops while using them - it…

Meta at least had the sense to realize that if anyone would be willing to put up with looking awkward and being kinda uncomfortable for the sake of cool tech, gamers and gooners were the two big groups. It hasn’t taken off like they wanted, but there’s a consistent niche.

Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine are in a violent and vulgar buddy action-comedy with a lot of non-canon shenanigans and references. The plot isn’t going to be the deciding factor for anyone choosing whether or not to see this, so why give it away or spend time on it in the trailer?

Music is a deeply emotional, personal thing for many if not most.

“if the techbro predictions come true”

Because art is one of those things where the value is (at least partially) in the creation and the intention. It’s a form of communication, not just a tool.

Yeah, everything about this has always positioned it as season two, not season one part two, and the first season wrapped everything up in a nice little bow with a minor cliffhanger at the end.