When did “cultural impact” become this defining metric of success? It’s so weird, I never heard that phrase at all until people started needing a reason to shit on Avatar.

Stink. Stank. Stunk.

Mikklesen had the easiest role in Death Stranding in terms of understanding. He loves his baby in a jar and as a ghost he’s angry at everyone. There’s more to it than that, but in terms of emotional anchors Mikklesen had the easiest and he’s the star attraction in that game both for how comprehensible he is and how…

But steamed hams aren’t steamed, they’re called steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.

All recognition to Lindsay Ellis’s multi-part video essay on Transformers on this, but it is worth pointing out that Jennifer’s Body is also shat upon because Megan Fox spent the peak of her career getting shat upon for her roles, and absolutely undeservedly. If you watch her character, and her relationship to Shia…

I don’t want to go on too much of a diatribe.

My take:

Object permanence is SOME SHIT- I’m always like, how’d you get over there when I wasn’t watching? Are you telling me things can happen when the camera isn’t on?

I dunno. Wolf Warrior seems to have done more than alright. Whatever winning the “culture war” means. And on the other end, China has respected art house movies too. No reason they can’t do it.

Ever since I heard this announced and saw the screenshot of their recreation of the bell ringing shot, my thought’s been that the very people who’d have any potential interest in a Black Narcissus remake are people who know they’d just as well rewatch Black Narcissus.

I believe Nintendo has “solved” the problem by ceasing to sell this game after March.

My cat has learned the sound of the PS4 beep and runs to see if I’m putting a disc in (he likes to watch it “eat” the disc). I can’t take that away from him when I upgrade he’s too cute.

multiple scenes end with characters finishing a conversation and then just idly standing there for a few seconds before the cut.

In The Phantom Menace, I think we’re led to believe that Amidala is the queen’s name and Padme is the alias she uses when she goes incognito. But then in Episode II we learn her full name is Padme Amidala - so her idea of a disguise when she’s on the run from murderous factions is to just use her first name? And even…

Counterpoint: It’s one of the funnest movies ever made.

Pick Eric Andre you cowards!

Joe Rogan would accept a wrong answer if the contestant was emphatic enough.

There are a lot of really good actors (and Kristen Stewart) in this movie

For me just dropping the season pass treadmill would be fine. I loved Destiny, but i hate games that lean as hard into FOMO as Destiny does. I can’t play the game without getting anxious cause i feel have to play a certain amount of time a week just to do everything, instead of playing the game because i enjoy it.

Yamaoka’s work with Grasshopper Manufacture is top notch; it’s a bummer that he is no longer with the studio.