At 44, just realized that the phrase “The Pot Calling the Kettle Black” is that the pot thinks the kettle is black because the black pot is reflecting off the kettle’s stainless steel surface. Also, It’s (more…)
I wish Lifeforce was as good as the one sheets and art from the 1985 film.
I guess it’s an example of letting creatives like O’Bannon & Hooper run the show, then? Because it looks 10 years *older* than Alien or Poltergeist, and came out AFTER. That film was a snooze that (more…)
It didn’t sit right, so I followed up on my gut feeling that Pixar’s “Soul” was a bad film, and turns out I wasn’t wrong.
NOT TRYING TO BE DEBBIE DOWNER. I just had this weird feeling that wouldn’t go away, so I dug deeper. This is about trying to be an ally who actually cares to read deeper into the way Hollywood offers (more…)
The Next Intellectual Property Gold Rush is coming, ie the post-comic push for meaningful use of video gaming intellectual property
I sort of wish I had known / realized that the Resident Evil 2 game I am finishing up was so different as a remade/remastered version of the original from 20 years ago. I wasn’t even thinking of 90s graphics (more…)
A quick thought on The Expanse vs Battlestar Galactica.
If you like physics… that alone is enough to start The Expanse. I’m in my little pandemic bubble and echo chamber, so I’ve been watching this show with jaw-dropped amazement, and isolated such that I (more…)
Intellectual Property is what ruins our imagination, creativity, and everything we used to love.
Talking about why modern storytelling Hollywood films aren’t good…. the issue of Star Wars goes beyond kathleen kennedy and is a plague on the entire movie industry. Marvel, for better or worse, are (more…)
Ignore this, or “the community I engaged”.
I did this out of bored curiosity. I am happy to see my contributions range over so many subreddits. I really only hang out in a specific few, so this is surprising. I know it means legitimately nothing (more…)
Robocop and The Wire aren’t too different, you and I: How each deals with the dark side of The American Dream, and the collapse of city governance.
Dan Harmon is right. A film lazily titled “Robocop” should be a disaster. A forgettable B-film that is best for Mystery Science Theatre 3000. But that’s not what happened, and here we are. Re-watching (more…)
A fantastic list of movies that earned a 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and some real “so bad they’re good” gems in here.
https://www.looper.com/1145/movies-earned-0-rating-rotten-tomatoes/ It’s a long list, but some take me back to that golden age of seeing films. I must have gone to the theatre weekly, for sure, because (more…)
The Unpretentiousness of MumbleGore, and the Mandela Effect.
We’ve been watching a LOT of horror films. It seems like a tremendously useful and helpful way to challenge negative energy and anxiety during a pandemic… sort of like, “Oh it could be worse”. Something (more…)