As I understand it, it's impossible to redo the FX cos there are no original tapes or footage; all the raw footage had the FX layered over it, so there's no blue/green screen footage to work off.

Absolutely fair point, though your last paragraph is the kicker: I don't trust Filoni to have fashioned something that's entry level friendly either.

Re. Ahsoka, that’s ... disappointing. I had wondered whether someone like myself, who hasn’t watched the cartoons at all, would be lost at sea with this new series. If indeed it’s not throwing any bones to newbies & casuals, it might be another case of a Disney+ show failing to garner an audience. Not that Eckstein is…

2007. Madness; I used to play that game so very much back in the day when I had a PC worth a damn. I still love its aesthetic and wish it spawned more copycats rather than the intent towards “Reality”. There a multiplayer game out there with such a large community, relative to its age? Maybe the original…

Elsewhere, Bloody-Disgusting has a poster for Bad CGI Gator, the latest tongue-in-cheek monster movie from Full Moon Features.

Quiet quiet quiet, bang!

Why oh why do studios and producers keep trying to jump start these universes before the first entity is even out, audiences able to respond? It’s either hubris or a blind inability to learn from the graveyard of failures (Dark Universe anyone?). And a MMORPG? HAHAHAHA, yeah. Good luck.

Not going deeply into those ideas because this will be a huge spoiler, [but] it’s also very, very close to the meta ideas which are deeply embedded in the books, especially in book five. It’s very lore accurate.

Is there as high profile an actor as Elba, whose CV is as awash with sub-mediocre, generic projects? He’s arguably one of the most famous actors on the planet, yet keeps starring in these things that are often at best, forgettable.

Imagining a better world might start without approaching situations with the assumption there’s a malevolent read to be taken from something demonstrably joyous and positive like Tears of the Kingdom’s expansive, wholesome presentation. I presume the author / academic never actually played the game, given “plunder” is…

Marketing for Elemental focused on the fantastical setting and simplistic Romeo and Juliet love story, without ever letting on that it’s also an allegory for the immigrant experience and the ways in which outlier communities can be systemically excluded from urban planning and development.

Calling this a “review” is stretching it when to me it read more of a lazy breakdown of each beat from the episode.

I loved Soul and Turning Red, and thought it was a minor disgrace they were “relegated” to streaming. I do increasingly think Pixar is dying, but just doesn’t know it yet. The lightning left the bottle years ago and Disney can't leave them be.

Ah is it that time of the month? When we have the periodic “the ‘internet’ are thirsty for <vaguely inappropriate character X>“. The herb era of these sites is producing some seriously sex starved writers! We all have our fetishes but yeesh guys. Suppose it's better than Ganondorf?

We're at the point where the words "Ubisoft open world" is an instant turn off. As enticing as the concept seems, I just can't bring myself to buy into their ... ... approach to open world.

Because we’ve had 7 seasons across 18 years(!!) of this shows existence: we’re lucky we got that far in the first place, let alone a movie to cap it off. This was always a show that kinda disappeared, came back for a year or two then disappeared again.

Am looking forward to seeing this story get wrapped up, and delighted they have been given the space to do so. Genuinely think this show has been a dark horse for one of the best (animated) shows of the last 10, 15 years. Certainly the best nobody watched.

Maybe Prey might persuade the powers that be to finally make Terminators set in the past, where there’s more of an automatic sense of risk if our heroes are battling with muskets etc. I still have in my head my fantasy sequel set during the Battle of the Bulge, mixing it up with the horror of snowy desolation…

That’s a really interesting comment by Matalas about Picard Season 3; many noted how it felt more in keeping with Movie TNG than TV TNG, some like Red Letter Media effectively calling it the best TNG movie. It’s oddly heartening that Matalas at least understood what he was doing, rather than being some hack like Alex…