Firing from the hip with a bunch of half-formed thoughts:

AGREED. Yeah...why is this a bad thing? Damon would also take on a more prominent role in Western advertising of the film given he’s a Western film star, so this should not be surprising.

This is exactly what I was going to say. I’ve been watching his movies for a long time—I remember pirating Hero in 2002 with fan subtitles two years before it came out in America. This is not Hollywood. It’s a collaboration between countries from a director who wanted to add a Western part/actor to his movie to make…

I remember seeing that episode as a kid and thought, huh?

Sung by Eartha Kitt, of course.

How would one verify this, Ms. Kelly?

Now this is real blasphemy. SANTA CANNOT BE SEXY.

Santa was a turkey!!!

Santa was a Muslim!!!

Or a complete disaster. Hoping for insanely genius, though.

Doug is smart and a good boy!

Shame on you.

You’re definitely right, but I think this is also a symptom of the short sightedness of corporate culture. Corporations these days are all about short term profits because they need to make the numbers look good on that quarterly report. Now who knows if video games were a good long term risk or not. But I think I…

there’s nothing wrong, exactly, with a three hour art film. as long as it’s good. you just might not be the audience for it, however.

No, that is part of the failure, and a great teaching for him. The man need some humbling independently of what the assholes at Konami did.

never forget

Obligatory: Fuck Konami.

“Who’s there?”

Tentacles are never enough, even Japan knows that.