“I could fire this in Manhattan in broad daylight and nothing would happen to me.”

frankly i’m surprised this isn’t happening in Dubai

Counterpoint: Avatar has a ton of fan art and yet I could not for the life of me name a single character or anything from that franchise other than UNOBTANIUM.

SNL season1 — and of course the first episode — was deeply unfunny

much of our enduring affection for Henson, is basically just a function for the love so many feel for Henson’s most beloved creations, the Muppets

more games should bring back debug menus, like the Sonic games did back on Genesis.

*convicted rapist Mike Tyson

Good artists borrow... great artists etc. etc.

Also a fair point. No question in terms of his ability to synthesize different genres. Still, there’s something either over-the-top bombastic or cloyingly sentimental about even the best of his works. Compare, say, Williams’s Schindler’s List Theme with Morricone’s Gabriel’s Oboe (from The Mission), and you can hear…

that’s a very interesting point. Williams is the modern-day inheritor of Wagnerian leitmotif. Maybe the opera comparison was fair.

Derwood*

one of my all-time favourite games. the quasi-turn-based combat system alone is worth the price of admission. by most accounts the 1997 Japanese film is pretty bad (and only loosely connected to the game), but would love to see it properly done as a psychedelic horror by someone like Ben Wheatley.

the irony!

it’s genuinely surprising that True Grit didn’t win anything, given the career-best performance of a “late career” actor was prime Oscar bait. And deserved, frankly. Great film.

he has created iconic music (I am a mega John Williams fan) but is by no means worthy of comparison with the great classical composers. He writes great themes, but has never composed anything remotely as profound or complex as, say, a Beethoven symphony or Mozart opera. And I’ve listened to his non-Hollywood work too,…

a ton of contemporary vulgarities like “fuck” and “up your ass” which just seem really strikingly out of place. Not that the English or Japanese weren’t capable of era-specific profanities, but it’s absurd to have it peppered throughout the speech of, say, a daimyo or noble samurai.

came here for this. it’s like, Scene 1: epic endeavour of Paul trying to mount a sandworm, Scene 2: his pregnant mom just catches a ride with her posse.

The original 1980 miniseries isn’t nearly as Blackthorne/Eurocentric as contemporary critics (many of whom I’m guessing never saw it) seem to think. That said, this new Shōgun is simply fantastic; it’s both incredibly faithful to the source text while also elegantly expanding upon it in ways that add depth.

cocaine is a hell of a drug.

FFS, Saltburn was a pale imitation of Ripley written with TikTok memes in mind. Ripley should be insulted by this comparison.