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.

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.

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.

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.

Riiiiight, it’s a kids’ movie. Because if there’s one thing kids love, it’s nostalgia-baiting sequels to 1980's comedies. Yes, there’s three things today’s kids can’t get enough of: the Tiktoks, the Fortnite, and Bill Murray vehicles that came out 30 years before they were born.

If they really want to be like Smash, then the next five fighters need to also be Game of Thrones characters who all fight with swords and are all variants of Arya.

If you want new ideas and big changes to the formula, why are you playing a remake?

Eh, that’s a much bigger issue than this game. Warner Bros has way less of a consistent brand identity than Nintendo or even Nickelodeon does, so I don’t think slapping their name on the game would invoke the same feel as it does when Nintendo attached Smash to their brand.

Like, Mario and the Pikmin and the Inklings…

Yours is truly a majestic legacy. My Blockbuster just sucked.

Uh huh. So how much did you spend on ugly monkey pictures and how many of them are in this torrent.

I was pretty hyped until I saw the words “free to play.”

“Not enough corporate branding” is the biggest flaw you could find here? Okay.