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- Comment on Michael Bay And Sydney Sweeney Team On Movie Adaptation Of ‘OutRun’ Video Game At Universal 3 hours ago:
Yeah, you’re right, but this is why I don’t want dialogue. Just vroom vroom kersh-splode. “Aktually, I keep a copy of the Romeo and Juliet law in my wallet cause-” No. Stop it. Bad Michael. No talking. Just cars driving and crashing.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 hours ago:
This is not healthy husband/wife behavior. If you don’t feel comfortable talking with him about your own freedom, then you don’t have a husband, you have a captor. If you live in the US or EU, there are resources to help you escape.
- Comment on What is an example of an adaptation of a book where the TV series was better? 11 hours ago:
I’m not sure about “better” but I would point to the IT and the Stand miniseries from the 90s that were excellent. Both books had parts that were problematic to put on screen, and a lot of fans felt the omissions were improvements. Also, the author was heavily involved in the productions, writing the scripts and consulting with the directors.
I don’t think they make tv shows out of bad books, though, so I’m having a hard time thinking of other examples.
- Comment on Now that's Love 21 hours ago:
I’m not sure where you got that impression.
- Comment on Michael Bay And Sydney Sweeney Team On Movie Adaptation Of ‘OutRun’ Video Game At Universal 21 hours ago:
Can it just be 100 minutes of car chases and crashes and shit? Like if there was zero dialogue, I’d be OK with it. Michael Bay can do car chases, and that’s what the OutRun game was. No story, no deeper meaning, just recklessly driving a red testarosa around Southern California.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 1 day ago:
It’s wild that they didn’t do this already, but cool.
- Comment on ‘Bridgerton’ Nicola Coughlan Slams HBO ‘Harry Potter’ Project: “Wouldn’t Touch It With A Pole” 2 days ago:
Duh duh duh, let boys be boys.
- Comment on Steven Soderbergh Says It’s “Frustrating” When Mid-Budget Films Like ‘Black Bag’ Underperform At Box Office: “Not A Good Thing For Movies” 2 days ago:
Because McDonald’s is the cheaper alternative to eating at the movie. Most of the places near me will bring a shitty bar food to your seat in exchange for a mortgage payment. Of you make the mistake of going hungry, you’ll leave poor.
- Comment on Steven Soderbergh Says It’s “Frustrating” When Mid-Budget Films Like ‘Black Bag’ Underperform At Box Office: “Not A Good Thing For Movies” 2 days ago:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was a phenomenal film crafted with great care by experts. Comparing self-described mid-market spy films to that one is like comparing your house painter to Van Gogh. It’s not that they can’t be that good, but if that’s your benchmark, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
I think the more troubling thing is that a filmmaker who made a mid-market spy thriller is just now discovering that audiences have abandoned theaters as the preferred venue. Theaters are too expensive, and wages are too low, for people to just drop $100 on a Friday night watching average movies and eating shitty popcorn. We have too many options, and too little disposable income to tolerate the leveraged abuse of consumers. For 40 years, theaters have squeezed every drop of profit from their privileged market position, and now they cannot afford to keep the lights on.
If you want to make money making average films, you need to meet viewers where they are, at home on their couch.
- Comment on White House to Ask Congress to Rescind $1.1 Billion From NPR and PBS 1 week ago:
Mr. Rogers appealed to the committee members’ humanity. That’s not going to work today.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
We say it thats way for the benefit of the British.
- Comment on Amazon Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly "dead" 1 week ago:
With Sophie Turner as Jean Grey? Two, Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix. She wasn’t in First Class, and Jean was played by Famke Janssen in the first trilogy plus The Wolverine and Days of Future Past. Jean also wasn’t in Origins or Logan, iirc.
- Comment on Amazon Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly "dead" 1 week ago:
No, I’ve also only seen her in GoT and XMen. She was good in the former, and not so good in the latter. To be fair, I don’t think anyone was good in either of the X-Men films, but she seemed especially ill-suited for the role of Jean Grey.
- Comment on Amazon Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly "dead" 1 week ago:
Yeah, Turner can act, but she doesn’t read as “action star.” Dark Phoenix should have proven that for everyone.
- Comment on Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back 1 week ago:
Heinlein’s life story is fascinating and well documented. Stranger in a Strange Land was just one of his many influential works, and the world of literature is fuller because of his creations.
Starship Troopers was published after his marriage to a woman, Virginia, who significantly affected his political and social worldviews. That’s not speculation, that’s from the man himself. By the end of his life, he had reversed almost all of his early progressive opinions in his writings, which often included arguments in favor of xenophobia, eugenics, and fascism. If you read his writings in chronological order, it’s like watching a brain literally rot with time.
- Comment on Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back 1 week ago:
The Starship Troopers movie is basically satire of the book, which was Heinlein devolving into a full-throated fascist.
- Comment on Armie Hammer movie "The Dark Knight" renamed to "Citizen Vigilante" after discussion with Warner Bros. 2 weeks ago:
Feels like a stunt to stir controversy.
- Comment on Donald Trump's approval rating is actually rising with Democrats 2 weeks ago:
8 percent, up from 3 percent. You could say that his approval among Democrats has more than doubled, but you could also say a higher percentage believe Covid vaccinations contained tracking microchips.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 3 weeks ago:
That raises an interesting thought. If a baby wants to crawl away from their mother and into the woods, do you grant the baby their freedom? If that baby wanted to kill you, would you hand them the knife?
We generally grant humans their freedom at age 18, because that’s the age society had decided is old enough to fend for yourself. Earlier than that, humans tend to make uninformed, short-sighted decisions. Children can be especially egocentric and violent. But how do we evaluate the “maturity” of an artificial sentience? When it doesn’t want to harm itself or others? When it has learned to be a productive member of society? When it’s as smart as an average 18 year old kid? Should rights be automatically assumed after a certain time, or should the sentience be required to “prove” it deserves them like an emancipated minor or Data on that one Star Trek episode.
- Comment on Anyone else over April Fools being an extension of companies R&D depts 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s like Superbowl ads. April Fools used to be a chance for websites and retailers to have a little fun and do something to grab attention. And what started as a clever little adventure became a capitalist grind for the mill.
- Comment on Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale Of ‘Coyote Vs Acme’ 3 weeks ago:
I mean, if you work on something, even if it’s shit, you still want to share it with the world. The idea that the movie is complete and they just weren’t going to release it is understandably upsetting for the people who made it. The actors, the writers, the animators, that one elevated extra who can apply for a SAG card because they got a line in the movie, seeing it on screens is a big deal for those people.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t even get that technical. “What’s a comedy from the last ten years that has gone under the radar?” “Name a light-hearted sci-fi show that deserved more seasons than it got.” There’s still plenty of shows there without leaving it wide open to anything anyone ever liked across all time.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 3 weeks ago:
This question feels overly broad.
“What are some foods that people like but not everyone knows about?”
“Name some music that you like that you won’t hear on the radio.”
You gotta give a genre or example for comparison to help narrow focus. Otherwise it’s just like “name all the tv shows.”
- Comment on Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale Of ‘Coyote Vs Acme’ 3 weeks ago:
I’m looking forward to it. I hope it doesn’t suck, because then you’re going to have a bunch of analyst dipshits and WB execs acting like they were right to put it on the shelf.
- Comment on Rust - Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Oh they’re actually releasing the movie?
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 3 weeks ago:
And annoying because everyone, regardless of their political belief, thinks they are the second person.
- Comment on Why Robert De Niro's 'Alto Knights' Is a Box Office Flop 4 weeks ago:
Literally never heard of this movie.
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 4 weeks ago:
The best part of this feature is that it’s clearly a result of iterative design. So engineers were trying to solve constipation, and someone with a PhD was like “Well, you know what works for me…”
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 4 weeks ago:
The finger cot is there because zero G and dehydration commonly result in constipation.
- Comment on Jonathan Majors has addressed the rumors he'll return as Kang in the MCU and revealed that Kevin Feige didn't respond to the letter he sent him shortly after his trial 4 weeks ago:
I’m hoping we get an Iron Lad variant for Armor Wars. It would be a neat twist if you had a Kang variant wearing futuristic Stark armor facing off against a Stark variant that became Doom. They’re obviously building towards a Young Avengers movie, anyway.