The Great North is my favorite TV show that’s currently airing. I love the twists on the typical sitcom family (single dad, weird/absent mom, gay kid, younger married couple), the Alaska setting, the queer inclusivity. It’s a breath of fresh air. 

I love Bob’s Burgers. But for two things:

I don’t know if Great North has quite surpassed Bob’s Burgers, but I do love them both. It’s an excellent addition to the lineup and a perfect pairing with Bob’s.

it’s also a good example of the mcu house method working really well, because he was happily hands-off when it came to the fight scenes.

Yeah, his films aren’t meant to be commercial crowd pleasers. He just makes what he wants to make and managed to stumble into bigger name recognition.

Good point! The Russo’s are an interesting case. I don’t know if you can argue that Marvel wasted years of their lives, and they’ve been given opportunities to work on multiple big projects with no existing IP attached. For example, their project for Amazon had an enormous price tag. I’m not sure they have anyone to…

Literally what he is.

i mean he is one. 

the russo’s themselves are even a great example. they were an interesting choice and had done good work on tv, obviously elevated the mcu, and everything they’ve made since has been the worst stuff of their career.

Just given his sense of humor... I think I can give him the benefit of the doubt that that was pretty tongue in cheek?

It felt out of his wheelhouse even at the time. His earlier films were SO indie that it felt like he was only taking Ragnarok for the paycheck. The fact that it was actually good proved he’s an adept storyteller no matter the size of his budget. I’ve always rooted for him - he seems like a decent fellow.

It wasn’t on my plan for my career as an auteur.

Aardman tried that in 2006 with Flushed Away, which is CGI made to look like stop motion. But they went back to clay after that.

You have no soul.

It’s interesting Isayama didn’t feel like he could deviate from what he wrote when he was young, I wonder how much of that was just a personal mandate. Generally, while having a plan for your story is important, you do want to allow for some flexibility if your character’s have just ended up going in a different…

He wasn’t an A-list star, but the decision to remake Arthur was clearly premised on the movie being a vehicle for Brand. It’s not like they decided to remake the movie and then did casting for who could play a British lothario. Firing him would probably have effectively meant ending production on the movie (not that…

Poor Hobbit, they ADDED crap to make it 3 movies. Worse choice ever.

George Clooney as a schlub who loses his wife to Matthew Lillard is some of the worst casting of all time. 

Surely you’re not implying that the movie featuring a villain with a giant, super-evil, ultra-advanced warship with ten times the firepower of the Enterprise, a perfect cloak, triple shields, and a giant death ray with unlimited power and reach—which was also built in secret by rebels or something—was a bit dumb and…

This reminds me of Trevor Bauer in baseball where he wasn’t convicted of the major crime he was charged with but was still so horrible to work with it doesn’t matter.