There is simply too much going on in The Silmarillion to cover it in a single movie or even a trilogy.

It always felt a lot epic than LOTR IMO, even it is a flawed piece.

TIL, perhaps that’s why I did enjoy both versions (with the remake being better IMO).

I thought the Dredd remake was really good and I normally do not like American comic book movies. I would even argue the remake felt a bit more realistic than the original (which was decent, but not great).

You just blew my mind.

I just realized he was in Xena (and Hercules?), I associate him with like post late 2000s productions for some reason.

There was also a lot less on demand content / media / entertainment available back then. There were no social networks, no mass market smartphones, the internet itself was extremely primitive by modern standards, gaming was a lot more niche.

I was never a huge Star Wars fan, but I of course saw the prequel trilogy in theatres because it was a big deal back then.

I haven’t seen any of the subsequent Star Wars movies except for Rogue One, which I enjoyed a lot. From what I’ve heard most of the new Star Wars fare is aimed at fans and doesn’t really push beyond the barrier of the Star Wars concept.

This is really good and pretty original movie.

Angel’s Egg is a crazy experience, I find it helps to get in a certain state of mind when re-watching it.

While I generally dislike most anime, productions like Angels’s Egg, Perfect Blue, Metropolis or Megazone 23 are IMO a whole step up compared to many live action movies that go for a similar feel.

RIP

Kind of crazy to think Starship Troopers was released almost 30 years ago, when Muldoon was 29.

For more niche content, it’s sometimes one of the few viable sources for reviews.

Middle East Eye is comically inconsistent and downright hypocritical in their perspective/messaging on issues outside of Palestine/Israel.

I’m not going to argue that Highlander is a cinematic masterpiece. The critical response was mixed to harsh, and the film wasn’t a box office success either, grossing just $13 million against its $19 million production budget.

I never knew it was box office failure when it was released.

When the author listed the adjacent media, she forgot to include Highlander: The Search for Vengeance; the 2007 anime based on the Highlander.

While I have pretty solid exposure to anime, I actually don’t like the vast majority of anime. This is one of those anime experience that I would argue has crossover appeal. The art style isn’t annoying, the characters and writing are relatively well done. It’s actually a solid entry in the Highlander franchise.

I always get really happy nostalgia vibes when I watch Small Soldiers.

It’s not particularly good, but it gives me the feelz.

Supernova could have a been a lot better, wasted opportunity IMO.

I tend to be perhaps less anti-AI than most here (albeit I am probably even more distrustful of the large companies in this space), but just from watching the trailers, I found the AI generated scenes to be extremely distracting.

The first association for me is some shitty YT video slop or scheme.

I haven’t watched it though and I am not going to watch it.

I didn’t like the series, mostly because it was very vanilla. I would have much preferred if it was based on A Boy and his Dog, many of the 80s Italian Mad Max clones (2019, After the Fall of New York), Neon City and even something like Turbo Kid.

An arguement can be made that to make social commentary effective you need a bit more subtly.

I read that as Oscar Wilde for a second.

but if you assume motivations of those who supported them are the same for all of them then you’re only going to antagonise those that were misled

From my experience living in the US, that seems true.

I traveled extensively (~15 states minimum) and I believe I had a broad exposure to local culture (from provincial “hoods” with difference ethnicities, very rich and “conservative” suburbs to more cosmopolitan experiences in NYC, Chicago, LA, SF).

That being said, there is a limit to everything. At some point intent stops mattering and the outcome is what counts.

My personal opinion (I may be wrong), is that US is a dead end. There won’t be any any positive changes in the next 20-30 years minimum. The far right is committed to corruption, criminality and posturing around “freedoms” and “I support the law” and the centre-right voting public is too well off to rock the boat until it’s too late.

I am waiting for Dexter: Mysterious Murder in the Senior Citizens’ Home

I would argue it’s not reductive to treat the current approach used to manage immigration in the US as almost comically stupid (not to mention being founded on mostly posturing and self-aggrandization “I support the law”).

Managing immigration is one thing, but allowing your country to become like russia with security forces beating and killing people under the alleged pretense of managing immigration is definitely a sign of maliciousness.

Children of Men had much stronger dystopian sci-fi motifs. It reminded me of Brazil for some reason. One Battle, After Another was more of a mass market feature. That being said, I watched it in the cinema and I enjoyed it. It was a good movie.

I do think Children of Men (not to mention Brazil which is arguably a classic of cinematography by this point) is better.

The miracle cease fire scene really caught my attention when I first saw the movie in the late 2000s.

Wow, it’s fascinating that they can still achieve double digit growth.