We saw Blue Beetle yesterday. It was aggressively mediocre, but I think if you’ve never seen a superhero movie then it would probably be pretty entertaining. I suppose Latin audiences deserve mediocre superhero movies too.

I’m not so sure how much facts actually matter, but if they do, the fact that Gran Turismo’s opening Friday is a cumulative total of all its preview showings (of which there were several in the weeks prior, not to mention the normal Thursday showings) plus its normal Friday receipts means that it almost certainly…

It’s literally WB’s highest-grossing movie of all time. I think they’re fine.

Nah. Rick and Morty’s average ratings doubled Zim’s best, and that’s with airing in the middle of the night. Even better, R&M actually sells a ton of merch and has huge cultural penetration, unlike Zim. It would be an unqualified success in either time period.

“There’s going to be a contingent of fans who will hate whoever is doing the voice-over and insist it’s not Rick or Morty”

The show will still be itself even without Roiland’s voice work, employees at the studio said he was just a distraction in the office the past few years (leaving midday to buy nerf guns, parading porn stars around), and didn’t have much of a hand in writing/creating new episodes, just did the voices. I’m still…

Different strokes for different folks and all that, but I actually liked last season more than the previous one. It wasn’t as good as the first season or so, but it felt closer to a return to form. Fuck Justin Roiland though

There’s 30 unproduced episodes that are still part of that 70 episode order from 2018.

You think the toxic fans constitute 80% of the viewers?

I think you have it backward. AI is completely up to writing full scripts— as a first draft. It’ll be soulless and trite, but it will exist. What AI can’t do is give a scene some creative flair, or generate something truly original. It can’t punch up comedy (or horror, or drama for that matter), at least not reliably.…

To be fair (someone has to stand up for robber barons!), in the past they also expected to be liked and admired but at least they’d build libraries and stuff. Hell, J.D. Rockefeller personally passed out nickels and dimes by the thousands, back when you could actually buy things with nickels and dimes.

One of TLJ’s dozen or so plot threads is vaguely similar to BSG. Big whoop.

“staying home”

Onward was also only open for about a week because of lockdown.

which was all accepted into the Library of Congress.

The studio heads haven’t been in the rooms until now. This whole meeting was a PR move so they can depict themselves as working *weally, weally hawrd* to get the strike over when, obviously, they’re the ones keeping it going.

An entire trilogy of Star Wars movies from the guy who made the best Star Wars movie.

You could make the case for “Best 21st Century Star Wars”, I suppose (although I’d pick Rogue One), but I agree it’s no Empire.

Full penetration.

“You maniacs! You neutered the G rating! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”