“Seat D5...I’m still in seat D5...”

It’s basically just the Ayer and Snyder movies.

Fuck it. I’ll go to bat for Aquaman being entertaining, if ever so delightfully dumb.

*cue the pre-Winter Soldier part 2s. Cut to screaming Malcolm McDowell*

As far as the Fathom events go, the only one I ever did was the Indiana Jones marathon (and to be fair, we skipped out for Crystal Skull.)

Besides that...every year, one of the arthouse theaters here does a 12 hour horror marathon the last Saturday before Halloween. I think that’s as far as I’m willing to take it. 6-8…

The more I hear about the BTS on Iron Man 2, the more it feels like a strange balancing act between the studio influencing things to make sure there’s sufficient Avengers setup and the inmates running the asylum.

‘how much further can this go?’

https://www.simplyscripts.com/2010/09/26/spoilage-tron-and-akira-screenplays/ — Has a link to the Gary Whitta draft I was talking about (easy tip as far as script hunting on Google - a lot of the time, adding ‘PDF’ helps thin the herd quite a bit. Not a guarantee, but it’s usually pretty helpful to zero in.)

The best part of the timeline that sort of gets left on the sidelines by this article - they bought up the rights back in 2002.
They’ve been trying to get this thing airborne for over fifteen years now.

In light of the revolving door of talent behind the camera, I can only conclude either:
a) this is someone at WB’s…

If the leaked drafts of earlier attempts are anything to go by, they literally just transplant the story stateside. There’s a draft kicking around the web by one of the guys who worked on Rogue One where it takes place in Neo-Manhattan (which, to keep the aesthetic, was apparently bought up by the Japanese in a move…

There was an exception here, but that was a REALLY rare one (Paul Schrader’s cut of the prequel for The Exorcist. The film was prettymuch all done shooting by the time WB decided it wasn’t the kind of scary they wanted, booted him, and hired Renny Harlin. Given his was as far along as it was, they offered to release…

SW still remains the fascinating one for me, simply for the fact the mass collective memory rewrites itself there.
For all the shirt-ripping by fans over how Disney ‘disrespected’ Luke Skywalker, I still remember the 90s, when a large chunk of the SW fandom discourse about him boiled down to ‘Whiny’ and went back to…

It’s that ‘silent majority’ fallacy. They believe they are the greater number, even if they can’t prove and, in the age of the internet, the numerics otherwise are padded out (see: the people insisting Captain Marvel’s strong box office was the result of Disney block-buying tickets for theaters that would then play to…

‘would openly admit that’

If you ever get the chance, read Live, Work, Work, Work, Die.
First section of the book is very much the hardscrabble existence of a ground-level coder trying to break into the Silicon Valley scene.

Then the last chapters get into the higher ups and how utterly batshit some of their ideology gets.

The pop culture repping at my desk is...a weird spread (mix of xenomorphs and Gundam. Do with that what one will.)
As far as on the desk, it’s probably the Assault Kingdom figurine of the Zeta Gundam. One part I like the design in general and one part retooling the positioning every now and again is a nice little…

Speaking of the sullen shit, I know it’s several episodes off, but that is one thing I will also give Thorne - when his time to answer for what does comes, he faces it with a surprising amount of dignity.
No apologies, no excuses. Looks Jon in the eye and flat out says “I did what I thought was right. I lost. You won.…

In terms of genuinely great moments of the series overall, I can’t help but feel like this one too often gets overlooked.

You get what I mean here. There’s a pretty broad distinction between simply recognizing most of them are self-serving grifting dickwads and sincerely believing they pull off absurd secret assassinations, secret cabals with extraterrestrials and are plotting to take your guns away.

I still find it funny/horrifying to realize there was a time he and QAnon were fighting each other for the same pool of suckers.

Time has NOT been good to The X-Files as a property.

The sad part is, a lot of it’s not even the fault of the show, simply the fact that our culture has become far more open/receptive to embracing conspiracy nonsense than we were back then.

I’d argue Dale Gribble from King of the Hill has also been aged terribly as a…