I noticed this cause I drive by WB most days, but SUPERGIRL has two key posters right now. Supergirl against a wall looking hungover and Supergirl doing the squirrel/superhero pose. Generally you want to sell one idea with advertising.

OBSESSION is a box office miracle. I think for two reasons: 1) it’s a 108 minute movie that isn’t connected to anything else. It’s a movie. There’s no lore you need to know. 2) it’s the best date movie in a while.

We need to talk about porn more, sadly.

Look, there is no better advice than this: take people’s recommendations and recommend shit. The worst thing that happens is you/they know them/you better. Maybe your taste is shit, but what if it’s not? What if ROAD HOUSE is a great movie and more people need to preach about it?

I know you guys aren’t idiots so if trades say that GROGU did slightly better than SOLO, note that SOLO is the least successful STAR WARS movie, which came out seven years ago, so inflation, etc. It might not clear $200 mil domestic.

My perfect movie idea is: Renate Reinsve and Sandra Huller at a bar and having smokes, talking about how they hate men but also hate that they’re heterosexual. Recounting disastrous encounters and relationships. Dudes accidentally fingering their butt talk.

This is a weird year for Disney. Even with weekend numbers not fully in, GROGU didn’t course correct. MOANA? People clown the trailer. DOOMSDAY, hard to say. TOY STORY 5 should do well enough, but I don’t feel like people loved the last one, so making a billion is questionable.

One of the huge problems with modern cinema is that a lot of franchise stuff generates no conversation. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 has made over a half a billion dollars. Do people talk about it?

One aspect of modern STAR WARS we haven’t dealt with is some - but not all - THE LAST JEDI hate was generated by Russian content farms. That doesn’t mean all TLJ haters are Russian insurgents, but we sure as hell haven’t addressed that Russian interests want STAR WARS to be less interesting.

One of problems with modern culture is that it’s too owned by rich people. Dua lipa is fine, she’s also a cop, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry also cops. None of then could write a something so transcendent as “my baby does the hanky panky.”

Watching DUST BUNNY, one of the things that is absolutely killing cinema is that even the most revered artists can’t deal with modernity. STAR WARS works partly because it’s about nazis.

If GROGU is a box office failure, it will be sort of funny that it’s directed by the guy who basically got us to this point. Jon Favreau is a medium talent. We’re now totally exposed to that.

Trump not going to his son’s wedding is a perfect example of why conservatives are a cancer on our society. Conservatives don’t care about their children. They hate their children because they are bad parents who failed at being parents because they couldn’t see children as their better selves.

I’m watching LISTZOMANIA, and I miss a culture that could release a movie this on drugs. Currently people are riding on a gigantic phallus.

One of the things that’s so insulting about this is: Make Puerto Rico a state. Make Guam a state you fucking losers.

RE: anti-hero art. Yes, if you love TAXI DRIVER and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and FIGHT CLUB you might be a bad white male. But the reason they speak to people is because they resonate. Censorship of complicated art is bad liberalism that’s unintentionally or intentionally conservative.

One of the reasons why I love FIVE EASY PIECES is it suggests that being an adult is an illusion that we’ve placed on people older than us. There is no god, there is no moral authority that punishes us for our transgressions, most of life is people bluffing, playing the rules of the game.

One of the problems with digital photography is our relationship to digital photography. It’s not disposable because it’s an image, it’s disposable because it has no physical weight. There are no limitations so it often lacks purpose. A no budget film shot on film has more teeth.

The Chicken Salad sandwich exchange in FIVE EASY PIECES shows that people who follow arbitrary rules and who can’t think outside of them is not just an AI problem.

Watching FIVE EASY PIECES, which is like the 101 text of sound design. Weird to think of this as a mainstream movie. Like, in the seventies you could watch a movie and it could deeply resonate and change your life. I miss art being given that space and curiosity.

One aspect of the success of MICHAEL is Jeffery Epstein.

One of the things about the modern world is I make art because I have to. I post online because I like having that outlet. I don’t ever, and I think this tracks, do it for attention in the “does not believe what’s said, but knows it hits” way. I am thoroughly honest. Most people aren’t.

Watching HEAVEN’S PRISONER. There a whole thing where people clamored to see someone nude and then when they do a nude scene, it’s like “oh well, nevertheless.”

I’m going to say this and I say this because I love the film: none of the car chases in SPEED RACER are exciting. They look amazing, but they have no stakes.

OBSESSION is a box office hit. I’m happy for that. I have mixed feelings because it doesn’t address sexual elements intentionally. I get why it doesn’t, the monkey paw is “what if what you wanted sucked?” But also it doesn’t make male audiences have to feel uncomfortable with turnabout.

Watching SPEED RACER. i love it, but I think it should be viewed alongside stuff like ONE FROM THE HEART (and, to some extent, THE PHANTOM MENACE), where it is obviously and painfully flawed, but so beautiful and personal that those flaws don’t take away from the greatness.

Lady Gaga, America’s Harley Quinn.

I call my mom: “Hola mi madre.” My mom: “Hola… miho. Are we speaking Spanish now? Are we bilingual.” “Mom, we are so Bi!” As my mom is a teacher, I know when I get the “I’m the disciplinarian, but that’s funny” laugh.

It’s so embarrassing that conservatives can’t tell Trump is stupid.

AVATAR 3: Sad not sad this might be the end. Finally the characters are as interesting as the universe! Quartich going native in the most conservative way, Neytiri being like “yeah, I hate my kids cause they’re part white” makes this more than computer/tech porn.

The internet has always been a minefield for truth, but I don’t think people understand that trade publications are industry publications. Deadline, etc. do not want to say THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU is doing poorly - regardless if it’s successful or not - because they don’t exist to tell the truth.

Do you think Jeremy Allen White and Jon Favreau made “Yes, chef” jokes on the set? * *You see because Favreau directed this giant POS called CHEF…

Part of the reason more movies feature babies and pets these days is because we’re under fascist rule in America and there only very limited things we agree on. At this point Conservatives are cool with pedophilia, so you really have to search for crimes everyone goes “that’s bad.”

Got the AVATAR 3 4K. It’s 1.78:1. The film was released that way to mostly premium formats and also was put out 2.35:1. Though Cameron is an entertaining weirdo, direction is framing and his attitude towards it is why he’s not a “my guy.” You’re composing for purpose or you aren’t.

If Elon Musk got over a half a million people killed with his DOGE nonsense, I will vote for the democratic candidate in 2028 who says they want to put Musk on trial with the purpose of stripping him of his money and with the death penalty on the table for treason.

The end of Colbert seems an unprecedented power move by the Trump movement, but it feels like a lot of people are responding with “well that’s capitalism.” by not really seeing it as the norms being tossed out the window. If it’s no biggie, then could the next Dem president end Fox News, please?

i often think about this review

Seeing Colbert go dark, we know what venture capitalism is and how it works. CBS was dead the moment it was bought, as we’ve seen with many businesses, Toys R Us, Etc. If we know what it does, shouldn’t we organize a response that quickly finds homes so it immediately becomes valueless?

Going by De Palma’s films chronologically, I think he abandoned racial subtext because he felt it got in the way of other stuff. Perhaps he felt SISTERS would have done CARRIE business if it didn’t address American racism.

Man, it must have been weird for THE B-52’s groupies.

Good odds more people have eaten Ava DuVernay's Lights! Caramel! Action! than saw ORIGIN.

There are certain things where pop culture doesn’t always hold on to the context clues. To wit, almost every adult American in 1983 knew who Karen Silkwood was, but don’t now, so the film plays different. If you don’t know MARJOE, Marjoe Gortner’s movie stardom makes little sense.

I think with the ubiquity and general “B- is good enough” approach to CG, a lot of action scenes are now boring because computers don’t make human mistakes, and if everything is animated you have to think about inventing those problems. On top of which, people respond to athletics. No sweat, zzz.

Saw a joke about it, but it isfunny how Gwen Stefani is the famous person version of “the girl who dated black guys in high school then married the Mercedes Benz’s dealer’s son.”

It’s funny to wake up, check in with news and see yet again that America is insane. Trump babbling like a moron about six gebderz because he’s going to repeat mistakes until its accepted as truth and Bezos saying MELANIA was profitable and the Post was not. Either lies or idiocy.

My feeling about Dave Filoni is that he’s like Tai Lung in KUNG FU PANDA. I think he has been coached and buttered and maybe mishandled in his rise to the crown, but I think he’s fundamentally missing the ingredient to become the Dragon Warrior. Because he followed the directions not the art.

Deadline, etc. are trying to paint the GROGU possibles as a win. For reference, SOLO did $84 Mil domestic for the three day and $103 Mil for the four day. GROGU is expecting an $80 Mil four day. SOLO, eight years ago, made $213 Mil domestic. GROGU is in disaster territory unless it surprises.

The thing about Rotten Tomatoes is that while it can be a useful tool to find a collection of reviews aggregates are sort of like AI. A barometer but functionally useless. The problem is that this has always been the problem, a lot of people liked it because they want consensus. Have taste!

Billy Bob Thornton may have a reputation as hard to work with and kind of a jerk, but - regardless - his performances in A SINPLE PLAN and THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (which I just watched) are truly great. I’m mean, it’s text, he’s a ghost of a man.

Google choosing AI over actual results reminds me of a podcast anecdote where a white guy got so into (IIRC) finding out the truth about Robert Johnson, and found out so much and felt so proprietary about it that he ended up spreading falsehoods and getting in the way of his original purpose.