While I agree with the general thrust of your argument, I’d say the series has two great films. The third one might not be quite the stone-cold genre-defining classic the original was, but it’s still really fucking good.

Oh yeah, it’s definitely not another Just Like Heaven, but it’s absolutely the work of the band that did Pornography and about a quarter of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. I feel like it’s about as representative of their “typical” style as something like In Between Days, which mostly just serves to show how tricky pinning…

In a decade of amazing soundtracks I think Lost Highway might be my favorite overall.

It’s definitely one of their best, but it doesn’t stand out as a major stylistic departure to me?

That’s why I brought up Zelda!

It’s an episodic series in which each episode connects to or separates itself from the rest by virtue of whatever’s best for the story being told at the moment. This is an extremely common form of storytelling throughout history and it baffles me that people somehow have so much trouble with it in this one instance…

No Oscar noms. She’s had three Golden Globe nominations (one of which was a win), a SAG award and an Emmy as far as the big ones go, and plenty of smaller nominations and wins. Most of her awards and nominations came from The Witch and The Queen’s Gambit.

Yeah, Knives Out in particular exists somewhere between a whodunnit and a Hitchcockian wrong man thriller. Honestly, none of Rian’s recent murder mysteries really hold up as great showcases of the form, between Knives Out blending genres, Glass Onion being a subversion / deconstruction that can really only be pulled…

First, Fury Road is not a sequel. It’s a reimagining/reboot.

A) 9 years later

Top Gun: Maverick got away with it by being a great movie in its own right, and being a sequel to an original movie that (while obviously beloved and classic) wasn’t actually particularly good.

The thing that always got me about Jamie Oliver’s aesthetic approach to food is that in making “real” chicken tenders (as opposed to the “gross” chicken nuggets made with mechanically separated meat), he started from the convenient industrialized version of a chicken: already killed and cleaned so only meat and bones…

But if you aren’t bright enough to ask for help, or to figure out what’s going on then I don’t think you can blame Disney.

Even if we ignore the datapad issues entirely, being unable to view the show due to poor theater design combined with assigned seating is absolutely unacceptable for the price, and paying $160 for photos that were never taken and then being forced to wield internet clout to get a refund is unacceptable regardless of…

The exception being little kids, of course.

Or just about any murder mystery dinner. Interactive storytelling like this isn’t new, but the scale was absurdly ambitious and the razor’s edge that would require Disney to ride to ensure everything worked properly and profitably should have been obvious. The sorts of failures that are just a minor bummer with theme…

It’s entirely possible for people to become exhausted, sick, or just tired of large crowds and need to get away from things for a bit. Curation and committing to the bit is great, but there’s nothing unreasonable about providing amenities for people who need a break for whatever reason.

If Jenny were running a content mill trying to get constant attention she would probably release more than one video in a year.

there would have been a tidal wave of negativity in the culture about it if this was happening at a large scale

My guess is they were trying to shoot around how little they actually had produced, and were aiming to impress investors more than customers (who they figured would show up regardless). The sales pitch wasn’t “here’s an attraction for you to visit,” it was “here’s a product to help us make you more money,” and the…