Media (General)

[minor ledge]

hot take: Iron man 3 is one of the best marvel movies

[lucid haven]

What makes it one of the best

[novel bear]

Everything except the villain

[minor ledge]

No the villain is the best part

[novel bear]

are you talking about ||ben kingsley or guy pearce||

[minor ledge]

both

making||the mandarin just some white guy and using that to talk about how biases and racism affect a lot of militaries is jsut so perfect||

||Especially since the mandarin has been a weird racist stereotype that should be evaproated for most of his history||

[cold sequoia]

||they don't say anything interesting with it though ||

[placid river]

||I personally do not find whitewashing to be a great solution to stereotypical characters||

[novel bear]

||he lacked aura and was boring||

[agile drift]

Seated for Iron Lung

I know next to nothing aside from the premise of the game

[oak ivy]

@molten jetty @lone canyon how mad do you think george is about the cosmere deal

[molten jetty]

The man who finished another author’s unfinished book series gets a fully controlled adaption of all his major books

It’s the anti-George

[oak ivy]

Id be fuming if i was him

[cold sequoia]

at this point I think his natural state is fuming

[minor ledge]

wait the jimmy olsen show isnt a meme

[dusk hound]

No

It’ll be peak

Trust

Jimmy Olsen comics are wild

[dusk hound]

Maybe he should focus on finishing his book rather than getting mad

[minor ledge]

okay

but

jimmy olsen

this early

before batman or the flash

especially since grodd is a flash villain

grodd needs to try and kill obama anyway for it to be a faithful adaptation

i should attempt to watch the arrowverse

tbh

ive never tried to beyond flash

[agile drift]

It was quite weird

[spring barn]

My MCU hot take is Shang Chi is a top 5 MCU film

Personally it's my second fav after Winter Soldier and is one of the only two MCU films I rated 9/10

[ionic lily]

The action is so good

[spring barn]

Only MCU film where I found the CGI not just cool but beautiful

[minor ledge]

thats not a hot take

its so good

[spring barn]

I barely see it even mentioned

[minor ledge]

Its so so good

[spring barn]

Yeah it's peak

Plus

Tony Leung!

[distant birch]

Probably because marvel did nothing with shang chi for like the last 3-5 years despite the popularity of the movie

[spring barn]

del Toro

Gimme the physical copy of Frankenstein already del Toro

Please del Toro I need it del Toro

del Toro

HAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH

[distant birch]

The screenplay is out...

Is that close enough?

[spring barn]

physical copy will be an extended cut

[distant birch]

Oooh

[spring barn]

it's my fav film of his

and honestly my fav film

it's neither flawless nor the best movie I've ever seen

but it just hits yk

[lucid haven]

how is snapes casting not really a problem

[teal phoenix]

I don't think it matters

You can point out it does make Harry seem really racist I guess

My real problem with anything Harry potter is JK Rowling's war against trans rights

[lucid haven]

yes thats the whole reason why it is a poor decision because it makes harry seem super racist and adds elements to the character intrinsicly that complecate snaps backstory and the things between snape and harry

[teal phoenix]

And his dad also lol

Especially his Dad

[lucid haven]

yesss

like its a large issue imo

[teal phoenix]

If you had asked me a decade ago I'd care more

[lucid haven]

its just one of a bunch of issues surrounding the harry potter tv series tho

[teal phoenix]

But JK Rowling being so awful just makes me apathetic about the show at best and actively rooting for it to fail at worst

[muted solar]

Oh I actively want HP to die

The IP

[teal phoenix]

Yeah same

[distant birch]

Hp all ||It makes the character in a white-supremacist coded group black||

[teal phoenix]

It's somehow become an existential threat to my existence and safety as a trans person

[distant birch]

Hp all ||generally I don't see raceswapping as that big of a deal but I feel like swapping a character who has so many ties to/coding towards ideas of race and class brings a lot of implications||

[lunar hinge]

I hate Harry potter

[spring barn]

Tbf Harry ||does end up a cop|| lol

[cold sequoia]

Spoilers need to be tagged even if you dislike the IP

[dusky talon]

HP ||I have no problem with recasting Snape as someone radically different as I don't think anyone could outdo Rickman conventionally but making him black specifically is going to create some... unfortunate implications especially in that one scene in the order of the phoenix with the Marauders||

@teal phoenix

[spring barn]

Even if the property didn't age as horribly as it did culturally I still think a remake is completely unnecessary

[lucid haven]

i would mabey say in another 20 or 30 years

mabey

but now its unnessary at best and a disgusting cash grab by a hopefully soon to be irrelevent terf

[muted solar]

Didn’t people like the movies/view the movies favorably? I honestly don’t remember

[winged mountain]

I'm not fundamentally opposed to retelling a story that had been done as movies in the form of a more in depth series

[lucid haven]

neither

i like that idea

[lucid haven]

poeple do have a mostly favorable opinion about the movies

[muted solar]

See I feel like if that’s the case then a remake is always entirely just unnecessary

[lucid haven]

agreed 100%

like i can see the idea of making a tv series thats more indepth out of a movie series when there are places to explore or when the movies werent that great

or where its been long enough that almost everyone in the movies are dead

or things like that

but this specific situation and because jkr is a trash human i just dont see it as a good thing that hp is getting a tv series

[dusky talon]

they were hype at the time and mostly still hold up but their quality vacillated massively also they weren't very book accurate

[muted solar]

Yeah JKR may influence my views but if you have an adaptation and it isn’t like… Eragon, then I think it’s a waste to just make another adaptation. Adapt something new. There are plenty of books out there

[lucid haven]

or create original ideas

[muted solar]

Or that

[lucid haven]

theres certianly a lot of things going on that are original tv series's

[muted solar]

I sometimes forget that not everything is an adaptation

[lucid haven]

i would even be okay with a pre or post harry potter event where its separate from jkr and its like the maruaders or its a post harry potter books world or something

[muted solar]

Because for a while I kept finding out almost everything new seemed to be an adaptation

[keen flax]

-# sinners was new does that count

[winged mountain]

I honestly disagree. Like, when I say this I'm not talking about Harry Potter, but like, I can easily imagine a worthwhile series take on LOTR proper that leans into aspects of the story the original adaptation skipped

even though those movies are beloved and iconic

[keen flax]

-# yes more sinners propaganda for you all this fine morning 😌

[winged mountain]

maybe a version that hits Saruman from his book angle a little better would be nice

I can't talk about Harry Potter because I've honestly never read past the first book or the first movie, and at this point I don't really expect I ever will

but just as a fundamental idea, I think another version can have merit

[lucid haven]

theres a lot of the world to explore outside of the mainline books that could be good if jkr died and wasnt involved at all

i think untill she does and someone else that isnt a trash human takes over it dosent diserve anythign

[novel bear]

On one hand, I think that there's no reason for a rule against reexaming a piece of media, against seeing what happens when new people explore their own interpretation

On the other hand, the idea that these franchises are expected to constantly renew themselves just so they can remain relevant and monetize themselves further with each new generation is troubling to say the least

[lucid haven]

its a simular issue with live service games these days

no art can just sit and live and be static

[novel bear]

HP doesn't deserve it either way I hope it dies

[oak ivy]

i do disagree there is a lot of explore in HP, i think everything falls apart when you think about it outside of the main 7

rowling hasnt put in the worldbuilding or character legwork to have it support other stories

other than nazis bad?

[novel bear]

A big corporation throwing hundreds of millions into some new definitive take just feels a lot different from like, writing and performing a new take on a Shakespeare play that places it in a different cultural context

[lucid haven]

or making some a movie about romeo and julette that takes place in modern times

[oak ivy]

i think there is also a big difference between star trek the next generation, which is an explicit sequel, vs just doing the original series again with different actors and a worse story

[lucid haven]

just to be specific loved that movie

[oak ivy]

we seem to be getting more of the second

[lucid haven]

i did have to study a bunch of baz luhrmann movies in highschool since my teacher was obsessed with him tho

i graduated in 2008 tho

just for referance to his filmography at the time

[teal phoenix]

Can someone adapt the black company

Please

That's what I really want

[steep bramble]

There was one in the works, but it never went through

[teal phoenix]

I'll be one of the 7 people in the target audience

[novel bear]

Black Company might be too perfect as a book to be adapted

[lucid haven]

okay but its the guys that finished the game of thrones tv series

sorry

[teal phoenix]

There's probably been a few attempts that fell apart

[lucid haven]

i dont make the rules

[teal phoenix]

NO

[steep bramble]

I mean recently. Around covid times I think

[novel bear]

But also Black Company is the kind of thing where an adaptation could be great by doing its own thing rather than trying to recreate it perfectly...

[teal phoenix]

I think I tend to prefer adaptations that do the former

[oak ivy]

The Lady would do numbers on tumblr

[novel bear]

I don't want to see an exact recreation I wanna see episodes they made up that work better for tv

[steep bramble]

https://deadline.com/2017/04/eliza-dushku-star-the-black-company-series-adaptation-david-goyer-im-global-1202076367/

[novel bear]

Black Company general post-book 3 ||You cannot be talking about this when you haven't read the Books of the South yet man||

||You don't understand||

[teal phoenix]

I need to track down a copy of the first glittering stone book

[west escarp]

I thought she’d retired and gone to work as a psychologist?

The Lady will 100% do numbers on tumblr. My proof of this is the Lanfear Stan’s

Lanfear and the Lady appeal to the same demographic

[oak ivy]

I think the Lady is way more compelling than lanfear

[teal phoenix]

A lot of the foresaken are kinda 2D outside of like asmodean and Ishmael

Its a running problem

[west escarp]

Asmodean is not that in-depth either

They’re all cartoonishly evil

[teal phoenix]

He's fun though

And that's why I like him

[west escarp]

Is he?

[teal phoenix]

I liked him

[oak ivy]

wot gen ||Asmodean is 2D but he smokes weed||

Which is characterization ig

[west escarp]

I don’t lik mopey people so I never latched onto him

[teal phoenix]

I love sad wet dog characters

It's why I latched on to rand so hard

[oak ivy]

Idk i always found the forsaken but be a bunch of wet farts

The Lady, now there is an evil imperial woman

[teal phoenix]

The lady is definitely a better character than any of them

She's not cartoonishly evil which helps

[oak ivy]

They were systemically undermined by wot gen ||L + RATIO + I WEAVE A WILL WEAVE WITH MY WILL THAT HAS NOT BEEN WOVEN IN 3000 YEARS + TWO RIVERS SWEEP|| being the climax of every book

[novel bear]

I love The Lady so much that's all I can say without spoilers

[west escarp]

We stan (black company)||a woman who finds out someone wrote rpf about her and is flattered enough to hit on him an also repeatedly put his life in danger ||

[oak ivy]

You aspire to be that level of attention loving

[steep bramble]

Honestly I have no clue what exactly fell apart. This is just the announcement at the time.

[teal phoenix]

||Croaker freaking the hell out when he finds out she knew about that is really funny||

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/troyeheroine13-gif-20702399

[steep bramble]

Honestly, Natasha would play a great Lady

[teal phoenix]

Wot All ||I liked morridin because he had something going on||

[oak ivy]

I feel like i have seen several attempts at the domineering evil magically overpowered absurdly beautiful woman, like the jasnah in people’s mind, and the Lady is by far the best

Lady Envy is a goofier version of that

[novel bear]

The Black Company Books of the South ||I love how Lady just loves putting together absurd over the top evil overlord outfits for her and Croaker to wear. Yes honey we need to dress up for the dinner party and also the war. Yes honey, black leather and spikes with flames firing out of the shoulders was the peak of fashion 400 years ago.||

[steep bramble]

I really want to read Lies Weeping but my library hasn't acquired it on Libby

[oak ivy]

Was just reminded cheyenne hasnt read malazan

No one talk to me

[steep bramble]

hahaha

[cold sequoia]

What about Lady Spite though?

[oak ivy]

Not as beautiful

[cold sequoia]

wow

[teal phoenix]

I had someone tell me I wouldn't like Malazan because I like wheel of time and Brandon Sanderson

They got very elitist about it

It was very weird

[oak ivy]

Toll the Hounds ||and this is why fisher kel tath is the greatest character of all time||

[novel bear]

But you also like The Black Company, so I'd say give Malazan a try

[steep bramble]

That's a major factor against me reading Malazan

The fandom seems soooo snobby

[teal phoenix]

They also said the Warhammer novels where better than anything Brandon Sanderson had ever written because the author went to Oxford

Very bizarre conversation

[steep bramble]

And tbh, from what I've seen, part of that seems instigated by Erikson himself

[oak ivy]

I think there is a non elitist version of this take

Depends on what you like

I feel similarly about the black company for example

[winged mountain]

yeah, I don't think this has to be 'elitist', there are some dramatically different strengths and weaknesses between the two

(maybe it is anyway, I wasn't there)

like bringing up the Warhammer novels means they're probably being elitist

[teal phoenix]

They were being very elitist about it or it came across that way

[cold sequoia]

there are good warhammer novels but bringing them up to be elitist is hilarious

[lucid haven]

prestiege just because of where you went to university as a creative is crazzy to me

[oak ivy]

Malazan and SA are about as far apart stylistically as big fat epic fantasy books can get

[lucid haven]

gatekeeping around where an author went to school so so nuts

[novel bear]

I think there is a real factor that, if Malazan works for you, then what you get out of it is just something special that you don't tend to get out of other book series, but I definitely dislike anyone who gets elitist about that

It should be "hey, what this does is really cool, if it's your thing, in addition to how other series do different cool things" not "this thing is good so everything else is bad"

[lucid haven]

"you just arent x quality enough to enjoy malazan" is such a cooked take

[winged mountain]

as someone who tried to get into Malazan once or twice, like 10++ years ago, it is hard and not for everyone, so I guess I can see why it could attract elitists

[oak ivy]

I think basically every fandom has quirks like this

Look at how brandon was the bane of r/fantasy for years

[west escarp]

Oh he still is

[teal phoenix]

r/worldbuildingcirclejerk loves making fun of him, or did when I still used reddit

Haven't really been on there much recently

[novel bear]

Good work not using reddit

always a positive

[teal phoenix]

Last time I went on there someone tried to tell me about the Masonic references in wheel of time

I decided I should stop using reddit after that

[molten jetty]

We need more of these as love interests / main characters and not pervy older women preying on the young male protagonist

[oak ivy]

Why are you saying we? you can say I its ok

read BC the male love interest is not young

[molten jetty]

I say this as nicely as possible: Reddit Malazan fans can be elitist and condescending

[paper hull]

Malazan fans can be elitist and condescending in any space

[teal phoenix]

This was in a discord

[molten jetty]

Ah

Yeah Malazan fan moment

Reminds me of all the people saying “Sanderson sucks you should read real fantasy authors like Robin Hobb”

[lucid haven]

i feel like it comes from a feeling of superiority that others just dont get it and you are better because you get it and its hard to get into

[oak ivy]

i think anything with a high barrier of entry that is also of a certain quality produces similar fans

One Piece is another example

hell stormlight, depending on who you talk to

[molten jetty]

Tbh I think Malazan’s barrier of entry is overstated

The real barrier of entry is (DHG) ||making it through hundreds of pages of desert travel||

[oak ivy]

i dont think malazan fully lock in until the end of DHG, but that doesnt make the start of the series bad

same way i dont think one piece lock in until alabasta

and then its like oh, this is what the series is

[molten jetty]

~~One Piece didn’t lock in until Water Seven ~~

[gritty sierra]

one piece was good in East Blue 🙄

[molten jetty]

I like all of the beginning of One Piece but I think OP wasn’t “peak” level until W7

[oak ivy]

no one said east blue was bad, it is just not nearly as good as the rest of it

[gritty sierra]

I locked in baratie and arlong park

[molten jetty]

I think it wasn’t until W7 that it was clear Oda actually had a plan because he didn’t before that

everything was fun to read, but on a structural level, it was a lot more episodic adventures

[crystal brook]

Skypeia felt structurally episodic for you?

[molten jetty]

Yes

[oak ivy]

rick and morty is probably the clearest example of something being ruined for a lot of people by the fans

the show is legit good

[keen flax]

I feel bad that I hit my sister with the "you didnt get it" talk when she finished bojack horseman but in my defense she didn't actually get it so 😭

[frank quail]

ScHeZwAn SaUcE

[oak ivy]

sometimes people misread media

happens

we once had someone argue azula for ATLA wasnt evil

like ok, sure, whatever you say

[molten jetty]

Sometimes people get media and also just don’t like it tho (but Cosmic’s sister is probably wrong)

ATLA ||I love Azula’s character. I think so many people say she’s evil and refuse to see she is a product of her upbringing and neglect in the same way Zuko was, but Zuko was afforded a second chance and someone who could help him grow to be better: Azula never was. ||

[oak ivy]

||i think azula is also just straight up more evil than zuko. you see this during the flashback to when they are kids||

[keen flax]

Bojack Horseman ||She related deeply to bojack himself, which in itself isnt a bad thing. But she also hard focused on how self loathing he was and didnt realize that her saying that she was just like him wasnt great?? And lost the rest of what the show tried to say: that just because you are full of self loathing and had a terrible childhood doesnt make it okay for you to spread that misery to other people. Bojack is also straight deplorable 😭||

[frank quail]

ATLA? ||You can be a product of your upbringing and also Evil||

||The sympathy for their past doesn't excuse their current actions||

[molten jetty]

||but Azula was always with her dad and picked those traits up from him. She wasn’t naturally evil: the people in her life who could have taught her differently never cared to. Her mother gave up on her. ||

[novel bear]

Duck is lowkey referencing a specific person who was once in this server and you literally could not talk about Azula without them chiming into to say she was misunderstood

[molten jetty]

ATLA ||and I would argue Zuko and Iroh were both evil in their pasts too||

[oak ivy]

bojack is not a good person and the show only works when you realize this

he perpetually uses every legit bad thing that happened to him to justify unrelated behavior and never puts in any work to actually improve his life or his relationships

but he is funny and famous and so he gets away with it

[keen flax]

yes

[muted solar]

Oh yeah it was haha

[keen flax]

All of that went over her head, and I knew it would have so I told her not to watch it because she'd only take away (BH ALL) ||"woah. He thinks hes a stupid piece of crap. I have those same thoughts too! We are so alike tee hee" I had to remind her that he choked his gf and nearly had/wanted to have sex with a teenager in high school. Whatever level of terrible you think you are, Bojack is worse 😭

gosh its why the ending is so fantastic. All hes strived for was attention, someone to love him and he gets nothing. He loeses his friendships, and becomes alone because thats what he deserves. Mmmm tasty tasty show 😋||

I love bojack so much its not even funny

[muted solar]

I suppose. That said I still feel like it’s better to explore new stories than to retread existing stories that were already adapted and done well.

Adapting other material in the same world that hasn’t been adapted? Great.

Adapting into a series something that got a single movie that didn’t do well and actually fully adapting a series (like HDM). Great.

But like… idk I just kinda hate the idea of re-adapting stories that had already successful adaptations myself. It feels like a waste of resources and feeding into a culture where everything is just rehashing the same stuff and feeding on nostalgia

[molten jetty]

Wait I just remembered (ATLA) ||isn’t Azula 13????||

[muted solar]

Like the Disney live action remakes…

[novel bear]

The younger the child the more evil they are

[frank quail]

||it's a cartoon, no one looks or acts their age||

[oak ivy]

i fell off with bojack, mainly bc i found the humor and side character kinda dull, but bojack himself is a really well down study on how someone can be a bad person without kicking puppies or burning buildings. It is a very realistic portrayal of how someone becomes the worst person you know

also a really good examination about how self loathing is just a means to dodge responsibility

so yeah dont relate to that guy

if you do it is a sign you should stop doing what you are doing immedietely

[winged mountain]

you can kind of make the same argument against doing adaptations to begin with

the Cosmere has already been told, I'd rather have a movie that was a new story

[muted solar]

I mean I don’t disagree

I have been a very vocal opponent to Cosmere adaptations.

Not because I don’t think it’d be cool to see them or anything. I’ll of course be excited to see them.

[keen flax]

BH s3 spoilers + lanugage
||This basically sums up what you said but I have to share it because its my favorite F bomb in the series 😭
https://youtu.be/ohoLzH9EQzg?si=tgbceSxCUBEfck_8||

[winged mountain]

fair, I'm generally all for Mistborn getting a movie, and skeptical about Stormlight, FWIW

but like, I don't necessarily think stories have to be one and done, I think our history is filled with stories that have evolved and adapted over time, and re-adapting something is just a way that can continue to happen

I don't think the first version is automatically the best version or the only version of a story that needs to exist

[oak ivy]

i think adaptations are in a different bucket bc it is the first time most people watching the show experience that story

[muted solar]

The only adaptation I actively want to happen is Expanse books 7-9.

Like I’ll be excited about Cosmere adaptations because it’s happening and I can’t change that, even if I’d much rather have new stories.

[muted solar]

I do think that also is valid

[muted solar]

That’s fair

[lucid haven]

their new book series would be an awesome adaptation too

[muted solar]

That’s why I did caveat successful adaptations.

Like even if it could in theory be done better, if there’s a good adaptation, usually re-doing it just ends up with it being worse

[muted solar]

Have yet to read it

Expanse is one of the only adaptations I’ve seen where it didn’t just feel directly inferior to the books. But I read the books after and haven’t finished my rewatch following reading the books

[lucid haven]

well, i think foundation improves on the books as well

[winged mountain]

Expanse is sort of a strange one to me, there were a couple things I liked about it, a couple things I thought they did better than the books, but I thought 70% of it was worse

[lucid haven]

where foundation is veryof its time and the tv series improves a bunch of things that are issues

[muted solar]

Yeah not saying it doesn’t happen

[oak ivy]

for what i have seen of the show, which is admittidely very little, i think the show is just a straight upgrade

[muted solar]

Like I said, I didn’t finish my rewatch but I honestly still was enjoying the rewatch after. Maybe it stems from seeing the show first.

I think both the show and books are great

[midnight compass]

Black Company book 1 all ||especially at the end where Croaker realizes she's a horrible monster and stops pining after her ||

[winged mountain]

I thought season 3 of The Expanse was better than the book, for the most part, but the rest of it not so much

I wound up not even finishing season 5, honestly?

but also I'm an Abbadon's Gate hater, I almost set the series aside in that book

[muted solar]

Rewatch I only got up to s2e9 it seems

[molten jetty]

I wish New Jedi Order could get an adaption but that’s never happening

[muted solar]

5 and 6 were definitely my least favorite books. I think iirc I liked s5 and s6 more due to novella incorporation Assuming memory is right

Strange dogs is still my favorite part of the expanse books

[winged mountain]

I feel like there are two kinds of Expanse fans, people whose favorite books are 3 and 5, and people whose favorite books are 4 and 8, I'm among the latter

(people who like 4 tend to dislike 3, and vice versa)

[muted solar]

I loved 3. Loved 4. Was meh on 5 and 6 because it felt like a side quest to what in my eyes was the real main plot of the series

[winged mountain]

3 certainly moved the plot forward by the end, but I much preferred the way they told that story on TV

[muted solar]

I’ll have to get back to that rewatch eventually

[frank quail]

what about the ones that have forgotten what happened in what book?

Asking for a friend

[winged mountain]

Basically, [Expanse] ||do you care more about the conflict with belters or extraterrestrials||

[muted solar]

My main gripe with the show was that S6 was the end, and all of the plot threads I was most invested in a the new threads introduced that I was excited about were left open ended. And then the show was over. And I found out that 3 books didn’t get adapted lol

[teal phoenix]

I think the best adaption I've ever seen is the Akira Movie

It cuts a lot of stuff out but mostly for the benefit of the plot

[winged mountain]

the nice thing is that they have all the time in the world to decide to make it, they're supposed to wait 30 years in theory

they've laid all the groundwork for it in any case

[muted solar]

Yeah I do hope that it will eventually happen

They did such a good job casting that show

[muted solar]

Luckily I have the books so if it doesn’t ever happen then I’m also fine now

[winged mountain]

honestly, as someone who read the books first, I didn't love some of the casting, but the people they picked made the roles their own and it worked just fine on TV

[muted solar]

Like I loved books 7, 8, and 9. I got to see the story completed. I’m good

[muted solar]

Yeah that’s very fair. I think it’s always super hard to read books first and then watch an adaptation

[topaz oyster]

This has been my primary criticism of HP since long before JKR removed herself from public favor

[topaz oyster]

I think I'm more 4 and 8 than 3 and 5 and I see the pairings but I wouldn't say I come anywhere close to disliking 3 and 5 much less hating them

[winged mountain]

I thought 5 was a good book, I didn't dislike it by any means

3 I was basically skimming it

at least somewhere around the halfway point to near the ending

[muted solar]

I do not see the pairings

[topaz oyster]

5 in particular is on the high end for me because it is the first book where the actors' choices for the primary cast dovetail into the book characters in an interesting way

[muted solar]

Expanse all || 5 and 6 didn’t advance protomolecule plot at all. And I found that frustrating ||

Gorilla in a phone booth

[topaz oyster]

I think the crudest way to say it is that 3 and 5 are very character focused and 4 and 8 are very setting/plot focused

[muted solar]

3 had || the stuff with the gates and protomolecule || though!

[buoyant scroll]

For a horrible second I thought the live action Akira had come out and you were referring to it

[topaz oyster]

It did, which is why I called it a crude description

[muted solar]

Fair

That said I think it’s important

[topaz oyster]

Abaddon's Gate/s3 show ||I think if you're here for the protomolecule primarily that 80%+ of AG is very frustrating because most of the people in the story spend a good deal of time focused on each other instead on the obvious and fascinating mystery of their location||

||I also personally didn't appreciate how big the slow zone was until like book 7 or 8||

[muted solar]

RoTE showed me I can be all for character focused stuff.

But expanse through 6/expanse show all || if you have been building up an interesting main plot and then drop it for 2 books to exclusively focus on characters and a sub-plot, frustration (for me) ||

[topaz oyster]

I don't think Ty or Dan would consider 5/6 a side plot at all, I certainly don't

[buoyant scroll]

one day I'll finish the expanse books..
one day

[topaz oyster]

Expanse all ||It is extremely important to the fabric of the story that bad potentially humanity ending threats come primarily from within humanity and from within every major power within humanity||

[muted solar]

I am sure they don’t.

But expanse all || For me the main plot of the show was the protomolecule stuff. That is the driving element of all the books except books 5 and 6, unless I’m misremembering substantially.

Yeah sure I could see the argument that it’s the whole mars vs earth vs belters stuff. But when I was watching the show and again when reading the books, it really felt to me like protomolecule plot was plot #1 and the Martian vs Terran vs Belters thing was plot #2.

Iirc both the books and the show open with protomolecule plot and spark that mystery of “what is this?” ||

[topaz oyster]

Expanse ||The protomolecule does have primary importance, but particularly as a catalyst for human events. The driving arcs for Holden and for the primary antagonists (JP Mao for Earth, Marco for the Belt, and Duarte for Mars) aren't so much about the protomolecule itself but how they react to it||

||Duarte specifically works as a final antagonist because his reaction to the protomolecule is to try and use it to "uplift" humanity, and that dovetails with exploring the mystery of the protomolecule, but that says much about him as a person as well. And he isn't (and wouldn't) be alone in his reaction||

[midnight compass]

They're good!

[keen flax]

sigh leviathan wakes rests on my bookshelf 😭

[ionic lily]

Wake it

[midnight compass]

https://tenor.com/view/green-goblin-mask-gif-17747048515581223060

[keen flax]

I'll just keep watching the show 😂

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-por-que-no-gif-23322568

[frank quail]

there's three whole unadapted books, and several characters were thrown in a blender, so you should definitely do both

[keen flax]

Oh im gonna do both! 😈 later, maybe when im off my anime buzz 😂

[teal phoenix]

I'm on book 7 of the expanse and I didn't like it

I've had a string of bouncing off of books

It was that, then the priory of the orange tree prequel, then Consider Phlebas, then my eotw reread, and then Titan by Stephen Baxter

I did manage to start the third Earthsea book though

[dusk hound]

R.I.P.https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/2017301752526033219?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Catherine O’Hara has sadly passed away at the age of 71

X · Jan 30, 2026, 6:19 PM

[cold sequoia]

I had no idea she was sick

that's horrible

[frail mulch]

got through episode 4 of Wonder Man; the second MCU project by Destin Daniel Cretton after Shang Chi (he was tapped for Kang Dynasty but stepped down), and it reminds me I do like when MCU does the smaller stories. ||I about died when the remix of "In Summer" came on in the 4th episode. Really like Trevor Slattery's development here, and I feel like Ben Kingsley's having fun just rattling off periodic Shakespeare as he riffs with Simon||

[gritty sierra]

noooooooo

[hushed moss]

Agreed ep 4 ||Josh Gad was hilarious||

[muted solar]

Oh damn 😭

[muted solar]

Responding to this one as both.

|| Both points definitely very fair. That said, without the protomolecule the entire story just… doesn’t happen. Books 5 and 6’s plot would possibly still happen - the whole belter force let by the guy. It would just play out differently of course in a number of ways. But it’s not at its core driven by the protomolecule. That’s just kinda how I see it all at least||

[ivory night]

Well this sucks

RIP to a legend

[naive mica]

I'm a weirdo whose favorites are 5 and 8

Book 4 didn't work for me, I think I was spoiled by seeing the show first which did that story much better imo.

[naive mica]

Expanse
||> For me the main plot of the show was the protomolecule stuff.||

||I'd argue the opposite, personally. In the books, the story was far more focused on the protomolecule from the get-go: Holden and Miller were the only PoVs, and the Earth/Mars/Belter politics were mostly in the background for the first book. Meanwhile in the show, they brought Avasarala front and center from the get-go, making the inter-humanity conflict much more prominent and important to the plot.||

[topaz oyster]

||Without the people the story doesn't happen either. The Expanse is a sort of first contact story, and is fundamentally about how humans respond to the alien. JP Mao tries to subjugate it, Marco tries to pretend it doesn't exist and fights yesterday's war instead, Duarte tries to surrender to it, and Holden fears it (which turns out to be the more or less correct response in this case), and all of these reactions are the driving forces of the story||

[muted solar]

|| Ahh sorry I didn’t mean to say show. Meant to just say in general. Show and books. I get what you mean though and appreciate your perspective. ||

[muted solar]

Expanse all || Definitely very fair/valid and a thoughtful analysis. Hadn’t thought about it that way but I can agree with the assessment.

Granted a vast majority of stories really kinda boil down to being stories about humanity and how people respond to the world around them. But I think that gets a bit pedantic, and I can definitely see what you mean. It is a certainly a very human story with a strong focus on character. Even the novellas - diving into the mind of various characters like the psychopath guy and all that.

Very interesting.

I still definitely was driven by “I need to know more about the protomolecule mystery and the mystery of those who created it.” when I read and watched it. ||

[winged mountain]

Book 4 was one of my favorites because of the worldbuilding and scientific aspects which were basically glossed over on TV for budgetary reasons. When I say I don't expect to like a Stormlight adaptation, The Expanse season 4 is high on my list of reasons why

like the way they did it was perfectly reasonable, perfectly justifiable, but also that doesn't mean I have to like it

[naive mica]

...I wasn't saying you did?

[muted solar]

I loved both book 4 and season 4

[tight dove]

Just got out of Iron Lung and j liked it a lot

[ionic lily]

You got over your polio?

[tight dove]

Yeah

Also markiplier was there

[spring barn]

I dozed off during the first half

But locked in afterwards

Final act rocked

[agile drift]

Maybe I'm in the minority because I haven't seen anyone else with these complaints but Iron Lung ||I kinda hated the cinematography in the end. Like it was so dark, the camera kept moving, and the shots were so close, I could barely tell what was going on. Like kinda the whole part where the sub is flooding and the tendrils are growing on him||

[main dew]

As spoiler free as you can answer, does it expand on the game or keep things more of less as unexplained as they were before?

[agile drift]

I don't know the game so I can't speak to that

[spring barn]

I haven't played the game but watched playthroughs

And I'd say the latter

There is some expansion of the protag but not too much of the lore

[main dew]

Ah boo, iron lung felt like an interesting premise without much substance, I was hoping the movie would expand on it in an interesting way

[spring barn]

Felt like that was for

1. The crazy vibes
2. To make sure the practical effects don't look too wonky

[spring barn]

It's overlong for sure

Which feels like a deliberate choice to emulate the game

But I think it makes for a worse movie

The pace accelerates

First hour was so eventless I almost genuinely fell asleep

[main dew]

Iron lung ||not super interested in watching markiplier go oooo spooky at 5 or 6 inexplicable things and then a monster eats him||

[spring barn]

Pretty sure I dozed off a couple times

[spring barn]

I think it's not as bad

In fact the atmosphere is very strong I'd say

[main dew]

I am being overly reductive because I still might watch it just because movies do have more to offer than just that but kinda wished they'd used the game as a prologue to do more

[spring barn]

I didn't find much to complain about with the cinematography

[spring barn]

Yeah no it's a very faithful adaptation with some added character backstory

Even that is light

The ending rocks though

[spring barn]

I think he can easily do a sequel

Especially given how much tickets seem to be flying off

[dusk hound]

Finished Wonder Man

That was really good!

Definitely some of the best TV content the MCU has produced so far this decade

Which I know isn’t saying a lot

Wonder Man all ||The ending scene with Simon breaking Trevor out of prison was , and Yahya and Ben Kingsley just give great performances, I live for their bromance||

If you’re going in expecting something action packed this definitely isn’t for you, it’s more of a pure character drama which I absolutely love

[agile drift]

I watched markiplier's iron lung playthrough for completion sake, that wasn't really what I was expecting. Honestly made the movie better, because the movie added a bunch of stuff that made it scarier and more interesting

[minor ledge]

is iron lung any good?

the game is like 20 minutes long and its a 2 hour movie so

[agile drift]

Like 7/10 I think. It's not utterly phenomenal but it's a fun time

I suspect markplier fans will enjoy it just for him, because his performance is pretty good

[empty locust]

Avatar 1,2,3 ||I hate how Netayam died man. He was such a good character. Handsome too.||

[spring barn]

OG or del Toro's?

[terse crystal]

del toro

[distant birch]

Seeing Marty supreme tonight with my gf

[crystal brook]

Nice

I thought it was great

[distant birch]

I know... very little about it but it looks fun 😅

[crystal brook]

Im interested to see what you say

I found myself quietly chuckling a lot but it seemed like no one else was laughing when I saw it 😂

[spring barn]

Me when Memories of Murder

[distant birch]

Seated for marty supreme

[distant birch]

We ended up leaving a bit early because it was just a lot more than we were in the mood for at the moment. I'll maybe finish it some other time, I did think it was good

[empty locust]

Avatar 3 ||I was disappointed in how they returned Toruk. I thought its return would've been much more epic, but there was only this one short scene of people acknowledging it. Its action scenes were great though. I wonder if it would've been better if Toruk returned in Avatar 4 like it was originally planned to be.||

[dusk hound]

Finished the latest season of Slow Horses

This show is so damn good

God bless Gary Oldman

[runic pollen]

I would say HP All

||A) I don't think this makes Harry Racist.
B) Yes this might make James look racist but that line was crossed with magical racism anyways. The story is about him becoming from a bad person with faults to grow up and mature out while Snape keeping grudges of old and just becoming worse due to the crowd he kept with him.||

[lucid haven]

Hp all ||Sorry but one of the only black men on the cast being singled out for nothing obvious. Especially with all the nazi undertones of the dark wizards and everything is just so many layers of deep racism||

||Its not the specific relationship between Snape and Harry or Snape and James||

||Its the thing as a whole and the deep parts of the story that weren't as obviously bad when we were kids but that dont stand up to much scrutiny when look at through a more adult and complete lens||

[lone canyon]

HP ||race swapping as a whole can be fine but having a black man join the wizard kkk because a white girl didn’t like him strikes me as being in bad taste||

||also, my friends who consider themselves HP fans dislike it because they use such a strong view of what Snape looks like in their head||

Another example of race swapping I’m still lowkey mad about is white Heathcliff and brown Edgar in the Wuthering Heights movie

[oak ivy]

||the hp stuff is really weird bc it always justified in a “these characters could be any race! We never said!” Tone and its like, you had multiple opportunities in the book to say and you didnt||

||making hermione or snape black just seems so pointless and in bad taste||

[cobalt onyx]

||Nah, she did say||

[hushed moss]

Just finished Wonder Man. It was amazing ||Trevor taking the fall for the explosion by becoming the Mandarin again was so cool and sad. And I am so happy that Simon rescued at the end.||

[lone canyon]

||it’s just retconning for the veneer of progressiveness||

[lucid haven]

Dumbledore was always gay kinda vibes

When at 0 points in the books did she put in anything that suggested as much

[oak ivy]

Id have more respect if she just wrote gay characters in new stuff instead of being like, uh, dumbledore is gay! When no he wasnt. I read those books and it is not in there.

[dusk hound]

Wonder Man all ||Simon’s mom is literally the sweetest person ever||

[hushed moss]

Oh yeah ||That scene with her and Trevor in the kitchen 😭.|| Hit me in the feels. ||Also glad that Eric came around. We don’t need him to go all Grim Reaper||

I would say that this is the most consistently amazing series I’ve seen from Marvel. There are others that are also fantastic, but they all have at least one thing that pulls them down from being truly great.

Cough Flag Smashers Cough

[dusk hound]

Doorman was also a genius episode

Completely self contained too

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/deadlock-doorman-deadlock-doorman-default-dance-fortnite-gif-1437214811599099787

[hushed moss]

Now I am asking when the Great Lakes Avengers is coming out. We got 2 members. We just need Flatman, Big Bertha, um any one else I’m forgetting. And of course, Squirrel Girl.

[dusk hound]

I need West Coast Avengers

They already have Doorman

[hushed moss]

Doorman was on the West Coast Avengers? If so that would probably would make more sense to do, but them doing the GLA would be so funny.

[dusk hound]

Wait nvm

He was on the GLA

I was misremembering

[hushed moss]

Yeah West Coast is more B listers, GLA is like D list.

[lucid haven]

you know i think for my comic collecting right now im going to focus on the current run of the ultimate marvel stuff and the absolute dc stuff

[placid river]

God I hope we get a team up

[placid river]

Good choice, both universes been pretty solid

[lucid haven]

im just looking and the ultimate marvel stuff is ending ?

[hushed moss]

Have them all fight Doom or Galactus or something.

[placid river]

It is, yeah

[lucid haven]

is there a what comes next yet ?

idk how all this works

[placid river]

Sort of. There was a crossover called Ultimate Spider-Man Incursion where Miles Morales ends up in the Ultimate Universe. Without getting too deep into spoilers, the end of that crossover sets up a plot point for the main universe that’s getting follow-up in Armageddon, this summer’s big event

But it seems at this point like the actual Ultimate Universe storyline is ending for real

[lucid haven]

thats fine

for once having a complete comic thing is possible

theres a reason why i collected all of the mainline invinicble comics

[sage finch]

I have a bone to pick with that show

[dusk hound]

?

What’s the bone

[sage finch]

I left a comment on a YouTube short that sums it up

Slow horses all ||As much as I like this show, literally no character has any character development. River from s1 and s5 is the same person, if not worse, seeing as his issues with his dad seem to make him even less effective in the field. As is Ho, as is Lamb.

They don’t grow and get better, they don’t become better friends and treat each other better. That paint can debacle should’ve been in s1 not s5. Very hard to root for people when they’re endlessly incompetent and treat each other like crap. The only person remotely capable was Shirley and even she gets one upped constantly and roasted by her coworkers.||

[dusk hound]

That’s all valid tbh

[crystal brook]

AKOTSK ep3 ||I liked the use of the camera at the end to suddenly widen the distance between Dunk and Egg||

||I was expecting Egg to get revealed this season but also very curious to see how he ends up staying squire to Dunk||

||How his family ends up allowing such a thing anyway||

||If they dont just run away some how ||

[runic pollen]

Yeah I loved it a lot.

[runic pollen]

WM Ep3 || her convo with Trevor about Simon made me tear up. ||

[west escarp]

Apparently controversial Star Trek opinion

I do not care for McCoy and do not get why he gets nearly as much attention as Kirk or Spock

[midnight compass]

Which is the other one?

[west escarp]

Caddyshack.

https://tenor.com/view/caddyshack-bill-murray-gopher-bomb-gif-7180665767271455255

[midnight compass]

Ah right

[ionic lily]

https://tenor.com/view/his-brain-is-gone-bones-doctor-mccoy-dr-mccoy-gif-25328462

[frail mulch]

finished Wonder Man last night, really enjoyed it (and maybe I like the smaller, Spotlight sort of stories that focus on a person instead of universe-shattering consequences?) WM general ||it did feel a little like they were writing about writing/the creative process, but the Simon/Trevor partnership really shined. Ben Kingsley seemed like he was having fun||

[burnt shale]

Becuase he serves as the conterpart to spocks straight man whe Kirk is away.

[west escarp]

While repeatedly insulting and berating Spock in a manner that is frequently scifi-racist

[west escarp]

Just gonna watch a light movie over lunch. Who’s the director? Oh, some guy named David Lynch

[frail mulch]

Wonder Man all ||I do hope that we see Xialing and the 10 Rings again because surely they aren't happy with Trevor using their name/logos again. On one hand, great cover but otoh... there was a reason they kidnapped him from jail in the first place lol||

[paper hull]

https://youtu.be/YwMsGYvRqwo?si=klaPj6YO_VPAdDyT

(warning: much language)

[naive mica]

"Looney Toons Al Queda"
oh god my sides

I love how they're still just. In the HELM from Destiny.

[topaz oyster]

Tom Christie is an artist

This is art

Likely more artistic than the actual He-Man movie

[verbal lintel]

Bro grabbed so much footage from every angle he can fuel it as a backdrop forever, even though it flat out doesn’t exist anymore

[minor ledge]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1664780616380948480?sort_replies=recency its been 4 years since Beyodn the spiderverse what did yall guys think of it

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE’ is currently set to release on March 29, 2024 in theaters.

Read our ‘Across The Spider-Verse’ review: https://t.co/r5l3tvs65a

X · Jun 2, 2023, 11:46 PM

so forgettable its like it never released

[tight dove]

4???

kris are you in 2028

[minor ledge]

the person i stole this joke from said 4 years ago

[tight dove]

they are living in 2028

[minor ledge]

i didnt even realize 😭

[winged mountain]

IIRC the word on the street was pretty clear that the date was nonsense around the time the second movie was in theaters, but I guess they waited for the theatrical run to be over before confirming it

I guess Sony had been under the impresion that the third part was further along than it was when they decided to 'split the movie'

[dusk hound]

Kris tell me how Man of Tomorrow was

How was the DCU Wonder Woman

Who did they cast

[minor ledge]

Grant gustin

Whos also secretly the flash because the DCU is now in the arrowverse continuity

[west escarp]

Ok I’ve been disappointed by a lot in Nolan’s odyssey movie but Lupita Nyongo as Helen is INSPIRED

She really is one of the most beautiful women in the whole entire world

[muted solar]

Jared Leto

[stoic falcon]

Oh good, glad to have a fourth movie in the morbius series

After morbius 2099 and morbius of the universe

[tight dove]

Just binged all of season 1 of infinity train
Good show

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/infinity-train-tulip-olsen-atticus-one-one-infinity-train-tulip-gif-16963653851260260169

[forest wigeon]

Still mad at WB for burying it

and cancelling it

[tight dove]

Is morbius squad not real

Thank gods

[minor ledge]

im watching the new dunk and egg GOT spinoff show even though i havent seen GOT, its good solid show

[crystal brook]

Its really good so far, glad its going to be yearly

im curious to see if they will in fact go past 3 seasons, and how quickly George gets mad at them 😂

(if you dont know, the series is based on a series of 3 novellas but GRRM supposedly has an idea on 10 more)

have you seen episode 3? @minor ledge

[minor ledge]

not yet

[dusk hound]

I doubt George cares anymore

[minor ledge]

im watching it before fallout

today

https://tenor.com/view/detroit-become-human-connor-gif-27636173

good lord im expecting total ass today

[crystal brook]

Afaik GRRM LOVES Dunk and Egg

[turbid narwhal]

Didn’t George go over the outline of the future novellas with the show runner to avoid a HoTD situation

[crystal brook]

hes handed over some stuff apparently

[minor ledge]

i need to watch the first 4 seasons of got eventually

[burnt shale]

I’ll be honest I think grrm is far more likely to pound out a book to keep ahead for dunk than for anything else it sounds like those are the books he actually enjoys writing

[minor ledge]

GOT reboot so he actually finishes winds of winter

[frail mulch]

It's nice to have a smaller stakes Westeros story that has a sense of humor too

(I haven't seen ep 3 yet)

[burnt shale]

I’d be shocked if we don’t get she wolves and village hero relatively soon tbh ( like 5-8 years)

[crystal brook]

man who famously didnt do this

[burnt shale]

Yeah but it’s different here

Much shorter books in a series he likes more after he saw how bad not doing it turned out

[placid river]

Is each season one novella? I read the Dunk and Egg books a while ago and I feel like all 3 would fill one season

[crystal brook]

Season 1 is 30 mins episodes and its 6 or 7 in total

[burnt shale]

I also expect they will expand every book grrm knows more about the politics of this era so small things will be expanded

[cold sequoia]

Dunk and Egg + KOTSK ||they already have, the Blackfyre Rebellion wasn't a thing when he wrote the first novella||

[winged mountain]

The first season is only gonna be a bit over 3 hours long. You could probably cover the content pretty easily in 10 hour-long episodes, sure

[winged mountain]

The 'HOTD situation' wasn't about the showrunner not having access to books, it was about George being upset by changes the TV series made that George disagreed with. Furthermore, what George called disrespectful behavior by Condal in lying to him to end an argument, and the showrunner ending direct communication with George over the disagreement. So, if they want to avoid that, the play would be to do things the way George wants, or actually convince him? But like, George isn't going to be upset by them adapting books that George obviously isn't going to write, he gave them the outlines for a reason

part of what bothered GRRM is that, at least at first, he thought HOTD could have been a sort of canonical version of what actually happened in this story, as opposed to just the 'unreliable narrator' histories from his book

[turbid narwhal]

When I said hotd situation I meant a falling out with the show runner, should’ve made that clearer

But I agree with what you said

[winged mountain]

basically as long as the showrunner remains collaborative with George, he'll be happy

even with Game of Thrones, it was George's decision to step away when they passed the books, if he doesn't like what happened there, he at least accepts responsibility for it in part

[burnt shale]

More importantly theres no content i csn think of in the novellas that could result in a similar argument like I get ||Grrm wanted a child to be ripped apart but that was never going to be allowed by the studio execs ||Fire and Blood

[forest wigeon]

I feel like that could be a movie

[empty locust]

Jake Sully's hair in avatar 1 was the best

I don't like it in Avatar 2 and 3

[cold sequoia]

it would end up being a 4 hour long movie and the pacing would suffer (imo)

[empty locust]

I loved the Dark Phoenix movie when I watched it in theaters

[winged mountain]

I think it'd absolutely be doable but it's not really what HBO likes to do

[cold sequoia]

I think it could have been 3 episodes instead of 6 but HBO wanted to have more than a months worth

[minor ledge]

What was that fallout finale

[minor ledge]

https://x.com/DiscussingFish/status/2018731205726749075

DiscussingFish (@DiscussingFish)

First look at Woody Harrelson as Kevin Feige in 'KEVIN', the Kevin Feige biopic.

Only in theaters May 4, 2028.

(Source: https://t.co/D3yNpeFkUa)

X · Feb 3, 2026, 5:00 PM

a kevin feige biopic??

[buoyant scroll]

Saw Iron Lung early today. Utterly fantastic.

[placid river]

… I can’t tell if you posted this knowing it’s satire or not lol

[lucid haven]

Love this song

[minor ledge]

oh did i et fished lmao

[runic pollen]

Lol at first I was like "huh...?" Until I saw the account name is not "DiscussingFilm"

[runic pollen]

Now that I have seen the 3 episodes and have been watching BookBorn's video about the books for those episodes.

I gotta say that I like how the show actually does it with fleshing out the characters enough to make us connect to them and also having each episode have a satisfying end and an actual narrative going.

Ep1 ||It was the Introduction episode, made to connect to Dunk most of all, introduce Egg and the setting of Ashford Meadows||

2 || the second was all about the legacy of Ser Arlen and the relationship he had with Dunk. What it means to make a name of themselves. It also raises the stake in how much Dunk could lose with this tourney and how he would be left with nothing by the end. ||

3 || this one was about Egg's identity and the discontent of both him and the people with the Targaryen household. ||

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/averagesizedperson/774060936410595328/to-the-patrons-of-this-theater-i-apologize-for

Punished Sheepdog

TO THE PATRONS OF THIS THEATER, I APOLOGIZE FOR INTERRUPTING YOUR SCREENING OF INLAND EMPIRE BUT I DO NEED YOUR HELP WITH SOMETHING. THERE IS A MAN IN ROW E SEAT 7 WHO HAS BEEN GOOGLING "INLAND EMPIRE EXPLAINED" ON HIS PHONE WITH FULL BRIGHTNESS ON, DISTURBING OTHER VIEWERS IN HIS VICINITY. HE HAS NO LOVE FOR FILM AND JUDGING BY WHAT HE HAS GOOGLED HE THINKS THAT ALL MOVIES ARE PUZZLES THAT HE HAS TO SOLVE LIKE THIS IS LOST OR SOME SHIT. I UNDERSTAND THIS IS AN UNUSUAL REQUEST, BUT I WANT YOU TO REMOVE THIS MAN FROM THE THEATER AND POSSIBLY KILL HIM. WHEN HE IS GONE, YOUR SCREENING WILL RESUME.

YOUR PAL, DAVID LYNCH

-# #david lynch #inland empire #twin peaks #kyle maclachlan #laura dern #inland empire 2006 #me post

Tumblr · Jan 30, 2025, 1:53 AM

[keen flax]

Time to watch Wonder Man!

[dusk hound]

Oh I NEED these https://x.com/DCFilmNews/status/2018922947809771791?s=20

DC Film News (@DCFilmNews)

Better look at the DC Comics 90th Anniversary popcorn buckets available at AMC Theaters.

X · Feb 4, 2026, 5:41 AM

[keen flax]

Wonder Man ep 1 ||Simon is so funny 😭||

||I love his passion, and even if what hes doing on set is like unironically annoying, I genuinely feel bad for him 😭||

||also his ex is an opp what the heck||

Also if I get one more ad to go to Disney world im gonna rip my mounted tv off the wall 🥰

[tight dove]

today is muppet show day :D

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/muppets-muppet-muppet-show-opening-sign-gif-22959084

[empty locust]

who is your favorite youtuber?

mine is zack d films

and brandon sanderson

[agile drift]

Drew Talbert (bistro huddy), sapphixated, jangbricks

[frail mulch]

hm, this comes out soon and also is a good illustration for the kind of money Apple TV throws at genre properties... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWrFoaisdk

[thin ridge]

Wand of Sparking

[stoic falcon]

Either anton petrov (daily science news, normally astronomy) or isaac arthur (futurism stuff)

[agile drift]

Josh D’Amaro Named Next Chief Executive Officer of Disney | The Walt Disney Company https://share.google/Nyl2tOsTr0Wodpbzk

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-press-x-la-noire-meme-x-button-gif-19259237

[tight dove]

Iger killed the dinosaurs

[topaz oyster]

To be fair Other Bob gets a lot of the blame for where Disney currently sits

They elided him from this statement but Iger's tenure at the helm is not uninterrupted

[placid river]

Iger’s made some dumb decisions but from the perspective of purely making money for Disney I feel like he’s been successful for the most part

He was in charge of their biggest merger, for one thing

[dusk hound]

2nd times the charm https://x.com/CultureCrave/status/2019180431694831904?s=20

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)

The 'Eragon' series is moving forward at Disney+ 🐉

• Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing have joined the project as co-showrunners

• Creator Christopher Paolini is heavily involved in the project

(via @Variety)

X · Feb 4, 2026, 10:45 PM

[empty locust]

does cosmic know?

guess she does

[keen flax]

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Its gonna be so peak this time trust (if its not im blowing up)

[empty locust]

ahahahahahahahaha

I wonder if he'll be more involved than Brandon

@keen flax which are you more excited for cosmere or inheritance

[keen flax]

Hm. So because of the- inheritance and its not even close 🤣

[empty locust]

I love Inheritance, but... it'll never beat stormlight for me

[keen flax]

Im excited about the mistborn show dont get me wrong, but ive been a fan of the IC for a decade and have craved a proper adaptation of the show for years 😂

But anyway, with how Mr Chris had hardly any involvement in the movie, hes been talking about writing scripts fkr months and months so hes DEEPLY involved in the adapting process

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/saphira-dragon-glare-aggressive-dragon-gif-9172045138975745675

[keen flax]

So yes I am very ultra hypet excited and its gonna go great 😌

[west escarp]

Wow the cgi here has not aged good

[keen flax]

God she looks so weird 😭

[west escarp]

That’s obviously super low ranking on list of issues with the movie

But she sure is wonky

[keen flax]

I hope the new cgi adds more spikes to her, shes canonically really spiky 😂

[frail mulch]

I was gonna say, not much has aged well about that movie

[keen flax]

Bro if we enter 2027 with Eragon TV show and Beyond the Spidervers....... yall wont hear the end of it from me

[empty locust]

There is an art that I was in so much awe that I cried for(lemme see if I can find it). And also I remember when I finished Inheritance in like 9th grade, I felt so... depressed because I loved it so much. I think I cried.

yeah it's this
(by Ciruelo)

[keen flax]

Well he's adding to the world so theres more to read if you want to visit Alagaesia again! 🥰

[steep bramble]

There’s a lot of great inheritance art

[keen flax]

The eragon book with the pictures has incredible stuff, its all so well done

But honeslty im so impressed that he managed to pull through with this and I HOPE it goes well. I know being better than the movie isnt a high bar but I just want more people to get exposed to the fun series that made me love to read again 🥰

[empty locust]

Would've been crazy if it was apple tv also

[distant birch]

And man of tomorrow/Batman II!!

I think

[distant birch]

I think I saw somewhere that they were looking for it to be the next game of thrones. Because of course they were.

[west escarp]

What if it’s worse

[keen flax]

Ah beans. He said at the book signing that he wanted it to be like... an in between of PJO and GOT? Which admittedly is a very tough thing to balance

[distant birch]

...well there's probably a lot of room in between those two

Joking aside, I suppose I maybe see what he's going for? Something with scope and epicness and maybe mass appeal like GoT but maybe with some of the lightness of PJO?

[empty locust]

hmm. I'm trying to think of a scene that I would be excited for

[burnt shale]

Eragon may be the series I have reread the most and don’t own

[distant birch]

I'd love to see [Eragon series all] ||the evil dragon... shurikan? on screen. From memory, they were like... the size of the villain's palace? That scale would be awesome to see realised||

[empty locust]

I always imagined sunlight reflecting off of the dragons beautifully, and it would great to see that.

[turbid laurel]

I hope they still keep John Malkovich as Galbatorix

[keen flax]

And Jeremy Irons as Brom......

If the movie did one thing right it was the casting

[distant birch]

I never watched the movie

[frank quail]

I don't remember any of the movie
But I know Brom was great

[lucid haven]

What if Eragon and mistborn release the same year

[distant birch]

I remember a friend told me it was really bad so I never bothered watching it

[ivory night]

That movie is 20 years old this year

Or in other terms: Top Gun came out 20 years before that

[keen flax]

Fitting that theres news about the show this year then 😌

[keen flax]

Id explode into confetti

[lucid haven]

Also mistborns gonna be a trilogy of movies most likley

Ohhh you were talking about eragon

I thought it was gonna be a movie

[distant birch]

There was a movie

I think theyre doing D+ series now, like PJO

[lucid haven]

Yeah it was bad

[lucid haven]

Pjo is solid so im good with that and eragon is kinda a simular vibe imo

Not as young of a target audience tho

[burnt shale]

I think ive watched the eragon movie at least 10+ in spanish never mind english

[keen flax]

Ive seen it once

[muted solar]

Yet still better than a lot of CGI these days

[ivory night]

I don’t remember if I saw it in theaters in not or like TNT/Blockbuster

[muted solar]

My view on Eragon as a series dropped so much with my reread that I very well may think the show is great

Especially with there still being some book 1 nostalgia remaining

[keen flax]

Yeahhhhh thats fair. I couldn't read through the series last year but murtagh was excellent

Eragon ||I didnt finish the movie so I have no clue if they adapt the battle of Farthen Dur.... man that'll be so GAS 😭||

[burnt shale]

i find that intresting becuase my perspective keeps on raising with rereads

[keen flax]

I made the mistake of reading it during MB so it kinda made the... storytelling a bit rough? Now that the rose colored glasses broke i think i can reread it again with less stopping

But it will forever stay at the top of my shelf 🥰

So prepare for me to be more annoying about this as time goes on

[ivory night]

I am pretty down on fantasy adaptations becoming good television so I just try to have fun with them

[keen flax]

Yes :3 this show could be straight slop and you wouldn't be able to tell from me 🥴

[minor ledge]

book acccrate in that case

[keen flax]

Well... okay, the book has its fair share of issues but I wouldn't call it slop.... considering im Hella excited for this 😅

[ivory night]

I just think that a lot of these studios are run by people who don’t actually learn what makes things work. Like they all chased thrones without understanding what made it work as a TV show. They all chased streaming without realizing that their library isn’t good enough to justify the price.

[topaz oyster]

I'm no Eragon Enjoyer and slop feels like a pretty significant overstatement

[heavy anchor]

Counterpoint: eragon the movie was slop

[topaz oyster]

I think its mid, but slop implies a level of carelessness and trendchasing that I'm not sure you can accuse Eragon of

[topaz oyster]

I mean Kris was very specifically calling the books slop

[heavy anchor]

Eragon feels to me like a debut novel
Cuz it is
It's raw, kinda unpolished, and clearly a work of passion

[ivory night]

And it was written by like a 14 y/o it’s not gonna be Shakespeare

[heavy anchor]

I have my issues with the story but like for a 14 year old debut novel it's pretty good all things considered

[topaz oyster]

He was less subtle about his inspirations than maybe he thought he was

[ivory night]

Which like yup sounds like a teenager

[topaz oyster]

I was like 12 or 13 at the time and I cottoned on to the Star Wars connections well before it became an internet meme

[ivory night]

I was like 8-9 I want to say when I got the book so it just went right over my head lol

[heavy anchor]

I don't remember reading it but I do remember having a lore debate with a high schooler regarding it (I was in 5th grade) and I was right

[keen flax]

Look he was just a teen who wanted to make his LoTR x Star Wars crossover a reality and I respect that 😂

And the fact that hes able to revive an adaptation after who knows how long is impressive too

But yeah no eragon is messy and a Lil fanficy but its my shalya and im hyped and that hype wont die 🥰

[minor ledge]

i agree but i wanted to make a kinda witty comment

[pine flicker]

I saw more news about the Eragon adaptation. It’s still ALIVE! YESSS!

[minor ledge]

Wonder man Ep1 ||HELL YEAH THEY BROUGHT BACK WHITE GUY PRETENDING TO BE MANDARIN||

https://tenor.com/view/yes-celebrate-celebration-jesse-pinkman-dap-up-gif-11441765369679897089

[stoic falcon]

Noice! Im very excited

Eragon + movie ||no weird mummy bug ra'zac please||

[small quarry]

TMA 185 ||oh boy this one is not fun to listen to rn ||

[distant birch]

Mag185 ||was that the one that johnny said he thought he may have accidentally written too close to reality on?||

[small quarry]

ye

[velvet oriole]

https://youtu.be/i2ZTeoIKaw0

Its time!

[burnt shale]

It’s good have fun

[wise epoch]

Ah yes

[velvet oriole]

Finished it.

Ending ||Were going to Taiwan? ||

[burnt shale]

Sounds like it

[runic pollen]

Ey fellow Bistro fan. Current arcs are straight up a TV series made in parts

[empty locust]

Lox Pratt looks great for Malfoy

[gritty breach]

Lego Project Hail Mary set?

[naive mica]

For the folks who haven't seen it:

Spoilered because I've not read the book or seen the trailers, so I don't know what's a spoiler or not

[turbid laurel]

I’ll just confirm that there are spoilers

[frail mulch]

~vigorous jazz hands~ amaze! amaze!

[hushed moss]

Dang Lego is getting my money here.

[paper hull]

[gritty breach]

$100 us, €110, £100 btw

kinda ‘spensive

for what you get

[cosmic dock]

Avatar (Blue people) is very DUNE-ish, isn't it?

[lucid haven]

Its fern gully + Pocahontas if it was on another planet with blue aliens basicly

I wouldn't say its very dune ish

[cosmic dock]

Dune + Avatar ||So you've got two groups of colonists (Harkonen/Atreides, RDA/Scientists) come to a new planet for rare, nigh-magical resources. The good colonists want to work with the natives, the bad colonist want to wipe them out. The natives are supernaturally paired with their environment, and our protagonist learns their ways. The mentor dies to the bad colonists. The protagonist rides a great beast to make himself a warrior, before becoming the natives' leader and driving away the bad colonists. ||

[burnt shale]

||They both kinda have the white savior thing going on but it really doesn't engage with any of the themes of dune||

[main dew]

||Avatar is the kind of sci fi story Dune is criticising||

[cosmic dock]

Same ||Lawrence of Arabia I suspect||

[lucid haven]

yeah true thinking more about it

agreed

okay but what if paul is the good guy tho jebus

https://tenor.com/view/dune-stilgar-lisanalgaib-fremen-lisan-al-gaib-gif-13633185611076219756

[acoustic pewter]

Lisan Al-Gaib!

[worn notch]

The....tongue of the pocket?

[verbal lintel]

“Voice from the Outer World” or “Voice of the Unseen”

[acoustic pewter]

"Tongue" can also translate to "voice", though I don't know how you got "pocket". It translates roughly to "Voice of the Unseen", "Voice of the Outsider", or "Voice From the Outer World".

Ninja'd by a more concise answer

[worn notch]

Firerust my first language is Arabic

ooooh it's لسان الغيب not لسان الجيب

huh, I wonder if it should have been Lisan Al-Ghaib instead, oh well

[terse crystal]

https://deadline.com/2026/02/baldurs-gate-3-tv-show-craig-mazin-hbo-1236710583/

[molten jetty]

Unlike HBO’s The Last Of Us, which retold the story from the PlayStation games, the Baldur’s Gate TV series will be a continuation to the games, telling a story that takes place immediately after the events of Baldur’s Gate 3, as the characters — old and new — are dealing with the ramifications of the events in the third game.

[keen flax]

Bauldrs gate 3 2: Return of the Bauldr 🥴

-# mini tangent but is Return of The King even the second movie in the series? I have no idea

[frank quail]

RotK is the third book/movie

[azure fern]

Cosmic, pls

Rectify this at once

[keen flax]

Oh right, cause of the two towers 😂

Okay gotcha

Yes yes something something greatest movies ever I know 😔

I'll either watch then with dad or bf, idk 🤔

[azure fern]

also Epic

and finish Vox Machina

and Mighty Nein

Cosmic, pls

[tight dove]

and undertale

[worn notch]

and reread Eragon

[small quarry]

And Gandalf the Grey

[azure fern]

and my axe

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/-gif-3523222

[frail mulch]

Oh I guess I should go back and finish Baldur's Gate huh. My husband's and I were co-opping but hadn't finished act I whoops

[small quarry]

Ngl I have like, zero hope for this

[molten jetty]

And my axe

Wait Soia said that already awwww

[spring barn]

https://xcancel.com/geoffkeighley/status/2019563522339082576?s=20

[molten jetty]

Cosmic pls watch them

[placid river]

And, I can … DJ

[midnight compass]

And Gandalf the White
And Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight

[empty locust]

I wonder which ending they'll continue from

BG3 All ||Probably one where every main character gets a "happy" ending. Astarion as a normal vampire, Gale as a professor(not a God), and so on.||

[terse crystal]

BG3 All ||Yeah they would have too. there is quite literally no other ending to build off of||

[muted solar]

Don’t give in

[tribal saddle]

Doctor Who season 6 ||Man, there are so many places where the sonic screwdriver and the psychic paper would be useful haha||

[silent olive]

Folks I just made a search in this channel and somehow nobody has ever mentioned “Homestuck made this world” here, how can this be? This analysis (for people who don’t know Homestuck as well as those who do) is extremely this-fandom-coded imo

[tribal saddle]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh color at last

[lone canyon]

Lowkey hyped for bg3 hbo series

I really hope they make durge the main character

I would rather have a straight adaptation or direct continuation than a spin off

[crystal brook]

AKOTSK e4 || https://tenor.com/view/martin-scorsese-absolute-cinema-absolute-cinema-meme-martin-scorsese-meme-martin-scorsese-absolute-cinema-gif-7188464701423971028 ||

[dusk hound]

https://deadline.com/2026/02/isabela-merced-house-of-the-dead-film-adaptation-last-of-us-1236711085/

Glad Isabela Merced is getting work

But why does it have to be with the Resident Evil director

Those movies were not good

[acoustic pewter]

I didn't know. 😵‍💫 I'm sorry for my presumption.

[buoyant scroll]

Yes pls
https://twitter.com/ashotmagazine/status/2019701535832436941?t=9mqvsUL5f0Y2aSw6OY0Ecw&s=19

A Shot (@ashotmagazine)

Guillermo del Toro reveals he has a ‘COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO’ screenplay, reimagined as a Gothic Western.

X · Feb 6, 2026, 9:15 AM

Give that man some money

[cold sequoia]

glad he's on a gothic kick right now

Crimson Peak was fun but it took him a while to return to that kind of thing with Frankenstein

[molten jetty]

He kinda cooking

[lone canyon]

Give us more Oscar Isaac pls 🥺

[lucid haven]

dalinar played by oscar isacc?

[keen flax]

That would genuinely destroy my brain chemistry

[lone canyon]

Based tbh

I would be so down for that

[frail mulch]

another daddy role after victor frankenstein and leto atreides

[dusk hound]

YAYYY https://fxtwitter.com/DCFilmNews/status/2019812768728355031?s=20

DC Film News (@DCFilmNews)

Isabela Merced will return as Hawkgirl in 'MAN OF TOMORROW'.
︀︀
︀︀(Via @deadline | deadline.com/2026/02/isabela-merced-house-of-the-dead-film-adaptation-last-of-us-1236711085/))

**💬 29 🔁 278 ❤️ 2.7K 👁️ 37.2K **

FxTwitter · Feb 6, 2026, 4:37 PM

Superman 2025 ||She is for SURE gonna face consequences for killing Ghurkos, no doubt||

[oak ivy]

i have doubt lmao

[molten jetty]

Actually 👀

[keen flax]

Me 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 monkey 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 camille
Being horrendously down bad for Oscar Issac 😌

[oak ivy]

you didnt have to say monky and camille one would have been enough

they travel in pairs

[vernal stirrup]

no hes vasher obv

[lucid haven]

Thats also a really good idea

[lone canyon]

No but that idea actually cooked

[molten jetty]

The Last Jedi ||after the last jedi, i thought poe was really hot and wanted rey to end up with him||

[oak ivy]

||he is probably hot but the movie was so bad i couldnt get over that||

[keen flax]

Yes! 2 things can be true at once 😌

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-poe-dameron-oscar-isaac-gif-495174357512257769

[ionic lily]

||Liar, you wanted to end up with him||

[lucid haven]

Thats my dalinar

[lone canyon]

||you could really see when Oscar Isaac stopped caring about the franchise lmao||

[spring barn]

John Woo's 1986-1992 might be the greatest thing if all timr

[dusk hound]

Poe Dameron and Finn I mourn the gay couple you could have become…

[dusk hound]

I bet you the original print of Absolute Batman #1 is gonna be crazy valuable in like 30 years

[cold sequoia]

generally
more printings = lower value

[dusk hound]

Really?

I thought that more reprintings = less of the original printings = the original printings being valuable

[agile drift]

So is that printings of the individual issues or the collected volumes?

[oak ivy]

The absolute universe is popping

[agile drift]

Are there any volumes of absolute universe yet?

[oak ivy]

Martian Manhunter is SO GOOD

[cold sequoia]

they already printed a crap ton of issue 1 printing 1

[oak ivy]

Yes

[burnt shale]

I think it will be decently expensive in good condition but the fact that modern collectors exists means your not gonna see those insane highs you do for retro stuff today

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/absolute-cinema-comics-comic-absolute-cinema-gif-15459086731800818440

[oak ivy]

Love that little guy

[ionic lily]

Why doesn’t he hunt more men :(

[verbal lintel]

Because he is too busy tripping balls in every panel

[oak ivy]

Read the comics. Men get hunted.

[placid river]

Absolute MM is more about hunting other evil psychic entities that are driving people insane than anything

[empty locust]

https://youtube.com/shorts/W_4VvUbbr9s?si=XW30iryDuqWkLadT

I love scenes like this so much because it reminds me of my own experience. Time really does stop when you lock eyes with your soulmate(that wasn't meant to be)

[verbal lintel]

https://vxtwitter.com/ExtremeBlitz__/status/2019681466829930798?s=20

duck (@ExtremeBlitz__)

the Iron Lung director finding out Markiplier slept with his wife

QRT: clu_sauce
YouTuber Markiplier allegedly slept with the Iron Lung (2026) directors' wife. Despite this, he still managed to maintain his lead role in the film.

Source:
It came to me in a vision.

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 6, 2026, 7:56 AM

[empty locust]

moonknight was so good

[acoustic pewter]

Agreed

Also, I know almost nothing about Iron Lung but I really want to see it now.

Word of mouth and a tiny synopsis has me more hyped to see that movie than every recent Marvel trailer has had me hyped for Doomsday.

Come to think of it, I haven't even seen any Iron Lung trailers.

[dusky bane]

AKOTSK E4 ||I didn’t expect to love Daeron but I really do, the actor who plays him does such a great job||

[cold sequoia]

KOTSK 4 + Hedge knight ||I liked his role in the book, glad they captured it well in the show||

[dusky bane]

AKOTSK + novellas ||I don’t remember if he has much more than this, but I hope future stories give him more, the actor is so good and Daeron is so tragic||

[silent olive]

Playing the game is shorter/less effort than the movie, as usual we recommend to see the source material first

[verbal lintel]

The game (and markiplier original video game YouTube video) is only 40 minutes too

[lucid haven]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh5MbTtX/

[placid river]

As my brother pointed out, this is especially funny because in Moon Knight, ||there is actually a love triangle involving Moon Knight stealing Moon Knight’s girl||

[empty locust]

https://youtu.be/e9HXmMnUEdE?si=HlovO_d1xhOyXX4r

hmmm

[keen flax]

My mother and sister are so hyped for that, and I am too tbh 😂

Though I haven't seen the original all the way through yet

[azure fern]

Cosmic, pls

[keen flax]

In my defense I've seen 85% of tbis one! Every time I enter the room my family is already 15ish minutes in 😭

[acoustic pewter]

. That's happened to me so many times, which is why there are so many movies I can say I've "kind of" seen.

Like, I don't think I ever saw Pacific Rim in its entirety, even though I've kind of seen it multiple times. I was always walking in on someone else watching it so I don't know how much of the beginning I missed.

[full wolf]

New McElroy unfathomable noises just dropped: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pGORSEjUwIY

[topaz oyster]

Griffin being mad that that joke landed as well as it did is the best part of it lmao

[full wolf]

The delay of "that's such a stupid pun that doesn't make sense" to the instant realization of why it was actually relevant at the first "waow" repeat is just

[gritty sierra]

oh that's GOOD

that's good McElroys

[spring barn]

Hong Kong gun-fu is so full of life unlike some of the Hollywood action crap I used to get on my TV

Y'all got any genuinely good action films with style and heart?

Can be from anywhere

I'm already missing John Woo's heroic bloodshed era so bad

[ionic lily]

Everything Everywhere All At Once

[spring barn]

Oh yeah need to get to that

Anything more gun focused?

Something like John Wick would do

It's not the heartiest but I think it's got enough style

I just don't wanna be generic "stoic" cishet white guy slop

(Something I think John Wick rises above most of the time)

But my primary benchmark is 86-92 John Woo

[cobalt onyx]

The Matrix?

The Matrix general ||Both of the directors came out as trans some number of years later and it turns out the general concept works pretty well as a metaphor for being trans, so I don't think it counts as cishet||

[spring barn]

I mentioned stoic cishet white guy stuff as more of a vibe than requirement but ig that works

[spring barn]

Hard Boiled has become one of my fav movies of all time

Is it worth it to get the 4k version of the upcoming Arrow limited edition over the blu-ray?

I mean it's only £5 more so that's not the issue but the cost of 4k equipment is

For blu-ray I can just plug a player to my laptop

Aren't 4k players ungodly expensive?

[muted solar]

TIL there are actual reasons to have a dedicated 4k blu-ray player rather than something like a PS5

Not that they’re reasons I really care about myself

[turbid laurel]

4K Blu-Ray players are much more compact than a PS5, and honestly have better image. I don’t want a PS5, yet, so I just have the player

[spring barn]

How much was it?

[turbid laurel]

Uh… I think I paid $180 for it a couple years ago

Not sure what it’s at now

It’s a Panasonic UB-420

[spring barn]

Are they directly pluggable into a computer/laptop with a USB?

[turbid laurel]

No, you’re looking for a 4K drive and you’ll have to get software to actually play the drive on top of that which isn’t free

[spring barn]

Why's 4k so much hassle

Is it really worth all that

[dusk hound]

I like this decision tbh, makes it a proper Halloween movie https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2019918942840439162?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘CLAYFACE’ has been delayed to October 23.

Written by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini & directed by James Watkins.

X · Feb 6, 2026, 11:39 PM

[turbid laurel]

That's a question that has a different answer for each person. It's worth it for me, but if you can't tell the difference between streamed 4K and disc 4K then you probably shouldn't care as much.

[spring barn]

I'm just asking monetarily as a student

[muted solar]

If you’re trying to watch on a laptop screen probably not

[muted solar]

Oh definitely not

[spring barn]

I can justify getting a blu-ray player and discs

But 4k is...a lot

[muted solar]

Yeah I don’t really watch physical media myself but I think I can still confidently say there’s no chance it is worth it when you are on student money.

Maybe unless you’re a film student or you’re super huge on film and picture quality. But again definitely not if you’re aiming to watch on a laptop screen

[spring barn]

Not a film student just moved on from collecting books to films

[muted solar]

Am I dead wrong? I feel like you would need a good TV to even make proper use of a good 4K blu-ray player

[inland jetty]

I've got a gaming laptop that boasted of its screen value and a second monitor that I bought second hand and is old enough to use hdmi and vga instead of displayport and hdmi, and the latter is the better display by far, on just about wvery level

[muted solar]

I mean my M1 Pro MacBook Pro has a pretty nice display but I still feel like with its size you’d get some real diminishing returns out of a 4k blu-ray player. But maybe I just don’t know what I’m talking about since everything I watch these days is via streaming.

I feel like I’d rather watch on my desktop monitor too though. Just due to size. And I watch stuff on my laptop all the time out of sheer convenience

Maybe I’ll see if I can get a 4k copy of arrival or spiderverse and bring my PS5 back down to my place at some point so I can test out a comparison of the picture quality to see if I even notice a difference

[turbid laurel]

I’d recommend looking for good deals right now that include both the 4k and standard Blu-Ray discs

Then you can watch the normal Blu-Rays now but when you can afford to get the 4K stuff you can do that

There’s often great deals on Blu-Rays where you can get them for under $10

[empty locust]

https://youtu.be/zU9iYVatnP8?si=loqaSsZdMUiFPErz

Sasha was amazing here

[dusk hound]

Sasha could have been a great Supergirl

But they completely wasted her on that movie

[burnt shale]

She was the best part of that movie

[dusk hound]

For sure

I want to see her back for the DCU

Maybe as Power Girl perhaps?

WAIT

WAIT

WAIT

GIVE ME A SEC

LET ME COOK

Walk with me

[worn notch]

mommy

[empty locust]

Oooo

What about Sasha as Vin?

[worn notch]

I think she's too old for the role (she's 30)

[sage finch]

I always remember that scene where the sunlight made her revert to her normal body fat percentage lol

[naive mica]

Yeah the actor who plays Vin is probably like, 14 at most right now. Even if they decide to cast an 18-year-old as her, it's gonna take a while for production wheels to spin up enough to start that process.

[worn notch]

I think they'll pick a 21-ish person

Hunger Games did it after all

[buoyant scroll]

See I thought you were gonna go Cassandra

But Cassandra would probably be a teen if they pulled her in

[oak ivy]

Fallout season 2 was eh

I feel like the plot really stagnated and the character arcs were muddled

[cold sequoia]

I binged to E4 when that was the most recent episode but didn't feel motivated to keep up week to week afterwards

[oak ivy]

Its like, fine

[minor ledge]

yeah

s1 was so much better

s2 was hard carried by walton goggins tbh

[minor ledge]

(Even then i dont think s1 was great just alright)

tbh Fallout s2 ||Im not a big fan of NV but jesus christ the legion ending in the finale||

the effects were cool though

so

really good looking show

[minor ledge]

bc im worse than a nv purist im a fo1 purist (not a 2 purist god no dont associate me with those people) a 1 purist

[hushed moss]

I am starting Murderbot.

That is a fun credit sequence.

[hushed moss]

MB 1||Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon is just as hilarious as expected.||

[hushed moss]

MB 2 ||Oh my Gurathin try to swivel a non-swivel chair. This guy||

||He is so weird||

[ionic lily]

I don’t think MB is a good abbreviation when Mistborn exists

[buoyant scroll]

🔪 🤖

[frail mulch]

Hey, for now murderbot gets to be the only MB on Apple TV lol

[verbal lintel]

Time to see Mark’s completely normal adventure in a tub of ferrous metal

[dusk hound]

New TV spot for Supergirl https://youtu.be/VoqjnU_wGJM?si=uMpvSE6-2vvnn6qr

BABY KRYPTO

[verbal lintel]

Done with Iron Lung

Very good movie, highly recommend. Hard to find a really exceptionally good Cosmic Horror film

Favorite part is when (joke with surface information of Iron Lung) ||Mark announces to everyone on the comms, “Hello everybody, my names Markiplier and today we are exploring this blood ocean moon!”
And then he Bite of 87’ed all over the place ||

[hushed moss]

New PHM trailer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XN3-n-2Lo

[empty locust]

I really really really hate these AI ads

[spring barn]

My fav moment was when ||Simon stands in the rapidly rapturing sub, covered in blood and alien flora digging through his skin, torn limbs exposed and as the monster's teeth sink down on the sub and he says, "Break me off a piece of that kitkat bar!"||

[topaz oyster]

If you aren't familiar with Project Hail Mary DO NOT WATCH THIS AD

GO IN AS BLIND AS POSSIBLE

Just trust that PHM is real good

[keen flax]

nods I've been avoiding them like the plague

[distant birch]

A trailer played before something I was seeing in the cinema

Really felt like it showed too much but

[topaz oyster]

PHM is a very difficult sell and a large part of that is it takes some twists and turns early that are pretty necessary but also I think work best when presented in the order they're presented in in the story

So like