I’ve heard the phrase “Character actor stuck in a leading man’s body” a few times, usually for people like Colin Farrel, but Jon Hamm has always hit me as a great example. He wants nothing more than to be in 5-10 weird and interesting projects a year but his face is made for being the lead actor in bland…

I feel like people forget how recent Luca and Turning Red are when talking about Pixar, they obviously got Fuuuuucked by the D+ release but I keep hearing “Pixar has sucked for years!” and then, when reminded of the D+ ones, respond “Oh yeah, those were pretty good actually.”

Because, speaking as an AT fan, it kind of sucks that there’s no room for the next AT to develop. AT’s spirit is adventurous, and these end up being like the 3rd 4th and 5th total spin offs after AT wrapped up. Its difficult not to feel like this is less “We love AT, lets make more AT!” and more “We have no new ideas,…

Yeah, I didn’t go into it because I didn’t want to get too aggro, but what a kind of vile thing to say. I get it, anti-capitalism and all that shit, but its still kind of fucked up to insult a bunch of people with families and loved ones because you don’t personally respect their position. Everybody’s allowed their…

The “loser producers and financiers” gets to part of the problem with the In Memoriam and arguably the Oscars as a whole, the tension between whether this is an industry event or a broader cultural one. Those producers and financiers were probably more relevant to more people on that stage and in the auditorium than…

It’s the old “prematurely anti-fascist” thing where you were right but its suspicious you were right before we decided it was right, so you don’t get to be right

IIRC the original idea was for it to be from the FBI Agents perspective and Leonardo was hired to be one of the FBI agents, but then Scorsese got to talking with the Osage community and realized he had to recenter the film on their experiences, causing a pretty big rewrite

OK so its a Barsanti joint so its obviously bad clickbait, but the whole “sex scenes in movies” thing has always irked me because there are definitely movies with sex scenes still, but also the reason why films are less overtly sexual is not just because Superhero Movies(TM). There was a consistent backlash for…

I do agree with you that I think that Wizards is trying to diversify and have different products for different consumers, but I think that the real problem in the background is Hasbro and its pressures.

Being fair to Jennifer Lawrence, its possible that the issue was that she did have space in her schedule to do indies but the offers never made it to her, or that she would not have taken certain franchise roles if she had known that she also had offers to do more interesting fare; without a full schedule and her…

Given how lackluster the Adult Swim seasons were and how muted the response to s3 was, I'm not surprised.

I do agree, but also I kind of feel like Don’t Worry Darling’s marketing has shown off pretty much everything that the writer has said

I don't think he ever did a space movie? What movie are you thinking of?

I can’t wait for the Microsoft Defense Force to swoop in and tell us that Microsoft buying every studio possible is a GOOD thing actually

Its funny because this is the 3rd time Disney has cancelled/thrown into limbo a film by a director who was hyped up to be joining the universe only to have their star dip dramatically

The problem is that 343 was specifically set up and tasked with making Halo for Microsoft, so while I think the majority of 343 at this point probably does not want to do Halo, their choices are to stay and do Halo or quit. I wonder if the fact that 343 is tasked with only doing Halo is part of why they keep having…

I wonder if part of the point of that cliffhanger is that, after years of struggling to make Half-Life 3 or Episode 3, they said “fuck it” and messed with the timeline to change things enough that they were in a better place to continue. Half-life 2 and its episodes increasingly leaned into Alyx at least partially…

The dialogue is structured in that really annoying Borderlands style that’s used to mechanically inject “comedy” into every single interaction. You have a “wacky” side character or 2 who gives you the mission or relevant information, then spends a minute or 2 talking about some cuh-razy quirk or hang-up or argument,…

Roiland is wayyyyyy too dependent on improv and “natural” dialogue in his comedy, which was fun in, say, the first Interdimensional Cable when it was watching the random ideas a writer had on the spot animated. The thing is that, for as much as improv is supposed to be spontaneous, the amount of things that are easy…