This is why The Dead Zone remains my go to example of a King ending that works - those who want that happy note can take some solace in knowing Stilson never ascends to power, but it’s also done in a way that feels logically consistent with where things had been moving in the story to that point instead of feeling…

I’d argue Dreamcatcher feels more like several moderately talented people trying to write an homage in a weird sort of writing experiment where each one writes to a point, crafts a certain twist, then laterals off to another writer to see where they take it from there.

Like, there’s so many points in that book where…

Re: Dreamcatcher - I’ll give the audiobook its due - that novel is a load of hot garbage, and I feel kind of relieved that King has even admitted as such.

And with that said, that is one of the rare times where I feel like the audiobook was what got me to finish it. One part the fact I was working through it while…

As mixed as I get with some of the King crossover points, this is one I genuinely really liked. Besides it being a nice surprise to see Bev and Richie one more time, I really liked how, just being around Derry, Jake gets the sense there’s a sort of rot within the town - not seeing Pennywise (or even a trace of him,…

‘If you change that, why not change Pennywise?’

Because you can almost bet money that you’ll get a shitload of people who won’t think it through as much as you have asking ‘Where’s the clown?’

(That said, I am now wondering what would be the better alter ego for It to assume in the framework of the 1980s.)

This.
Fucking this so Goddamn much.

There’s aspects of that first movie I will admit I liked, but the design of Pennywise has bugged me ever since they first announced it because it’s so overtly ‘EVIL CLOWN’.

Especially since the clown persona was, at least in part, supposed to serve as a lure to children. When I saw the…

The difference is, to paraphrase one of the most telling soundbites of this administration, this movie is “hurting the right people.”

Unless there’s an announcement otherwise, not taking this as a guarantee the series will be b&w. Given this is almost all stills from the original manga, taking this as more of a ‘concept’ trailer than an actual showing of finished product.

The weirdest thing about reading that is, even with his weird creepy/comical over the top art style, when he wants to land those emotional beats, they land. The chapter when he’s on a business trip and gets a message about one of the cats missing him and suddenly feels guilty as Hell...yeah, part of it’s funny, but…

Kon was especially good at striking that balance (see also: Paranoia Agent - for fuck’s sake, GKids, you’d better be saving this from license Hell along with his movies!)

JIC was largely unremarkable, but had a few bright spots (Honored Ancestors and Smashed both translated fairly well)

That said, even the lesser episodes I’d still place over the disappointment that was the Gyo anime.

Unless you get people to sign ‘don’t sue’ waivers on entering the theater, I see this turning into the movie theater version of Altamont within the first year, if not six months.

Even moreso when one of the biggest complaints in it was that Luke Skywalker didn’t become this badass warrior.

As somewhere, Yoda chuckles (...and now remembering the time Frank Oz jumped in to defend Yoda’s character in TLJ only to have fans tell him he was wrong. That...that was something else.)

Given the timing of this trilogy, and how the First Order has been prettymuch framed as the Neo-Nazis to the Empire’s Third Reich...
...there’s something to be said for that.

Certainly wouldn’t be the first time the series has let current events shape its trajectory.

He also got pretty burned for that, to the point he subsequently admitted it was a bad idea. Not sure I can see him being in a hurry to recreate that play.

If the general level of discourse in film discussion online is any indication...a fair number do not know this, actually.

Sadly, I feel like this is exactly the play. Disney may be the evil empire here, but they’re an evil empire that knows how to command loyalty.

(I still find it fascinating how many people will criticize them bleeding Star Wars while pulling for the MCU, despite the fact that, in under 15 years, its cumulative…

More to the point - Spider-Verse went up against a Pixar movie for Best Animated and won it.

Granted, that’s not as much of a surefire bet as it’s been in previous years, but for a long while there, if Pixar had an entry on the list, it was treated as a lock.

On top of that, it was Incredibles 2 - a movie people had…

Curiosity bids me ask - are you counting Piranha 2 on that list or no?

...well we SORT OF got there with cancelling Jeffrey Jones.

...too dark?