I may be wrong but at one point wasn’t At World’s End up against Lord of the Rings 3, Harry Potter 6 or 7.1 AND Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith?

Wasn’t ‘Clusterfuck’ one of the names of the cats?

Yeah. Someone explained that Cats is the ‘Moneyball’ of musical theater: Only one set. No real plot. Only requires one real serious vocal performer (everything else is massively harmonized so that chorale-grade performers will do fine), and let the athleticism, dance, and costumes carry the play. I mean, Cats’ main…

S’like when they tried to change the title of Birds of Prey: Everything follows software development as the creative idiom now. Ship a Minimally Publishable Product, then patch later.

/Holo-Oscars

Mrs. Pillow actually *likes* ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ in the genre of ‘Sexy Christmas Songs’ insofar as she thinks it represents a healthy, lusty, female-forward statement of “All I Want for Christmas Is Your Dick”.

Reading the big book about the making of Disney’s (original) Fantasia. In an era where we take it for granted that animation can tell ‘serious’ stories or be a ‘real’ art form, it’s important to realize just how new a statement Disney was trying to make with Fantasia. Serious music, serious visuals (dying dinosaurs, a…

I will defend At World’s End to my dying day. That exchange Sparrow and Barbossa have looking at the dead kraken is some genius writing.

Kyle Machlachlan should play Alan Alda in the Alan Alda bio pic.

This thing? This thing where you buried the autoplaying audio-on video way down into the page? FUCK IT STRAIGHT TO HELL YOU LITTLE SHITS.

‘Sufficiently Sexualized Harley Quinn’?

Yes, always lead off by questioning people’s sexuality. That’s the mark of one of life’s real victors, that is.

Yes. Team Punchguy.

Also: Lack of audiences.

/Bocaccio

I want franchises to stop existing.

I don’t complain about it because I don’t plan to go and see it.

No. It’s not that people go to these Distaff Ensemble Reboots and hate them: It’s that they don’t show up at all. More women went to see the last Rambo movie than saw Charlie’s Angels. 

Mmm, ‘cause this worked SO well with Ghostbusters ‘18, Charlie’s Angels, Oceans 8, Hustlers and Birds of Prey (The Fantabulous Creation of One Professor Harley Hufnagel).

Mmm, yes: Angry badgering. That’s what wins people over. Scold people into seeing movies. That’s the Charlie’s Angels playbook. And look how well it worked out...