Back in those days, Germans were so madly in love with the US and obsessed about American pop culture that they remade American movies, tv shows and music all the time. Remember the Bellamy Brothers and “Let your love flow”? The Germans had Jurgen Drews and “Ein Bett im Kornfeld” (literally: a bed in the cornfield).…

Do you want to continue splitting hairs, or do you actually disagree with the assessment that the film who didn’t need free PR to be successful received more of it than the film which did? Do you actually disagree with the assessment that risky projects like Alita have a steeper hill to climb and could benefit from…

If it takes disagreement with the marketing of a Hollywood blockbuster to end up on the liberal blacklist, that’s a very low bar and a long blacklist you’re going to get. But who cares, right, you’ve smelled blood, you’ve got your blinders on, and now that you’ve read five of my comments on this particular issue, you…

Which is my point - there’ll always be more Marvel movies, they don’t need the free PR - projects that carry serious financial risks do. There’s a reason why big budget movies that aren’t sequels, prequels, reboots or offshoots from established franchises barely get made anymore today.

It’s just weird that the people who defend the interests of one of the largest corporations in the world by celebrating the curtailing of free speech think of themselves as “liberals”. The term “conservative” has lost all meaning a good long while ago and become a case of the Theseus paradox, but it’s sad to see so…

One of these well established mainstream movie critics got a bit too comfy on a podcast the other day and said that they (he was talking about the “access media”) all softball film reviews from powerful studios like Disney to some degree, because they’d lose access otherwise if they were brutally honest - that is,…

You’re correct of course, and I’m aware of the existance of the anime and manga. I suppose “original” is the wrong term in this context, as most people will interpret is as “originary”, that is, not derived from a previous work. So let me explain in more detail:

I find the RT scoring system pretty dubious to begin with, compared to the weighted/median 1 to 10 rating system of IMDB for instance.

I wasn’t referring to the rating they gave, but to the lopsided attention one movie has gotten compared to the other, even though both are big budget female-lead action movies.

We should also keep in mind that the collateral societal costs of false accusations extend well beyond the victim of a false accusation - overall they increase the dark figure of unreported sexual assaults, as the risk of not being believed and not being taken seriously by the authorities is one of the worst fears of …

Cosby just didn’t want him as a bunkmate, giving his urinal difficulties.

We’re getting grabbed. We’re getting scratched, clawed, held, shoved.

I was thinking about Army of Darkness and a boomstick coming in handy during such a predicament.

What’s the good word mate?

It would have been wonderful if Alita: Battle Angel got a fraction of the attention of Captain Marvel on this site and io9. Captain Marvel will do more than fine because it’s a Marvel movie set before the biggest Marvel movie in history, and a sequel is all but inevitable regardless of how much press coverage you…

I appreciate your thoughtful reply.

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So I take it you’re not excited anymore that QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED?

Do you think male creators don’t get threatened or harassed?

That movie wasn’t trying so hard to be more than it is.