As far as the aliens go, I think the problem is more one of theming. In all three previous Indy movies, there’s an ancient religious component to the magic stuff that happens. It feels like it fits with the idea of an adventuring archeologist because he’s unlocking some forgotten stuff that belonged to the ancient…

This cheap TV pilot feels way more authentic to the character than what we’ve seen of the upcoming Lightyear movie so far. Because this movie:

The regime has a zero-tolerance policy on outside media. Whatever value Squid Game’s content may have to them is nothing compared to the value they get out of making an example of the people who watch it.

One day they’re going to interview some Wise Old Director Man, like some dude who’s an absolute legend, has one Oscar but deserves like eight, and they’ll ask what he thinks of Marvel, and he’s going to say “I fucking love it. My favorite is Groot.” And Film Twitter will fucking self-destruct.

If Mario is Dayman,

Yeah, Pratt’s most financially successful roles have been in two films by Marvel, the biggest movie franchise in the world, and two films by Lego, the biggest toy franchise in the world. These were already huge brands before Pratt was attached to them.

A) He did, but the problem is that he then proceeded to play Emmett in every movie he’s been in since then and it’s old now.

Come to think of it, a Luigi’s Mansion movie with Charlie Day would be hilarious. Just Weegie going into a terrified panic every couple of scenes (with Day ad-libbing the whole time) but eventually he BARELY gets his shit together enough to save Mario and bust the ghosts.

This is all part of Nintendo’s master plan to rehabilitate the 1993 Mario movie by making something so tone-deaf that the older film looks like a masterpiece by comparison.

Came here to basically say this. So they have a trillion dollars to throw at getting the rights to every franchise that Disney doesn’t own yet, but they can’t spare a few bucks to fix a hideous and broken UI that feels like it was designed by people who don’t know what streaming is?

Fun fact: When Miyazaki announced Princess Mononoke in 1997, he opened the press conference by calling it, “My latest, and last, film.”

He’s made five other movies since then. And at some point during production he called each of those his last work. The dude cannot help himself.

A better question would be, why does the media feel the need to ask every single director alive about Marvel films.

The backlash isn’t about him being Italian, it’s about Pratt completely wrong for the part, having zero vocal or emotional range, and also being a homophobe. But congrats to you (and that clueless Hollywood producer) for having the courage to speak out on an issue that doesn’t really exist.

“Chris Pratt will do a good job in this movie because another, better actor did a good job in a completely different movie.”

Okay.

Interviewer: So how did you reach the decision to cast Chris Pratt as Mario?

Producer: CHARLIE DAY IS ITALIAN.

One of Kevin Spacey’s last major roles was as the bad guy in that video game where the “Press F to pay respects” meme comes from. I just remembered that and now you remember it too.

Rey comes out of the Jedi vision cave and is like “Wow, the cave showed me a vision of the stupidest possible course of events. Palpatine came back to life for no reason and I kissed a fascist. Thank goodness that would never actually happen.” And then the actual Episode 9 starts.

Wait, are you telling me they didn’t actually kill anybody?

The timing for this is weird given that there already is a Blade Runner TV series, and it’s been airing on Adult Swim for two weeks now.

So Afterlife is deemed a hit after reaching a $40 million weekend total, which is...$6 million *less* than the previous Ghostbusters film, yet that one is still branded as a flop.