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The thing about the standard approach to analysis for the PG13 cuts is if it misses the following context, I’m not sure if it’s really taking enough into account to be fair to it. I know I’m a broken record on this, but: With the director’s cuts giving the genre a sci-fi fantasy pulp/Heavy...

Well, for my part I’ll just reemphasize a couple things: 1) FWIW I actually do understand, appreciate, and even respect some reasons why this movie is experienced as “not good” or “bad.” (When folks take the time to articulate why.) 2) Personally I really enjoy the characters, story, and...

Well, sort of I guess. The way Vader uses the force isn’t really an embrace of Nature though. Not in the sort of hippy Druidic way that Jimmy is connecting with nature. And Jimmy was never human, whereas Vader very much was. Jimmy is straight AI. Machine from the getgo.

Re-posting this from another forum, in answer to some complaints about the PG13 cuts: For the novelizations we only have Part 1 as yet. But judging from the book there’s quite a bit more of Jimmy in the director’s cut of Part 1. We see him sorting things out and getting along out in the wild...

Just chiming in that AotD didn’t do much for me. It wasn’t bad, but it’s just not what I’m into. I’m not a fan of either horror in general or zombie apocalypse movies in particular to begin with. Only a couple for those that I like. Kubrick’s The Shining and World War Z are about it.

Where I’m coming from with the Jungian idea of a “conjunction” is that it’s the bringing together of the opposing poles of a duality: Jimmy is super high technology. He’s sentient AI. But he has turned to the natural world, to Nature, for answers to basic existential questions. I really like...

Naked Atticus Noble and the alien tentacled twins? Ed Skrein said recently in an interview that he attended a Sideshow convention (it sounded roughly concurrent with the release of Scargiver), and words to the effect that he’s a huge fan of 1/6 figures. He was asked if there’s anything in the...

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Eh maybe, but he was laughing and joking as he said it, poking fun at himself, essentially. He was asked what film he would make next if he doesn't get Rebel Moon 3 and he said, laughingly, (close paraphrase) "I guess that depends on what direction I want to go with this provocateur thing!"

The stunt coordinator recently said the R-rated director's cuts have much better fight scenes if that helps any! But I get what you're saying. Btw, I'm going off of what Snyder himself has said about what his intentions are for Rebel Moon.

Actually, I think they care most about revenue from their own ad supported plan and the prospect of licensing their original content to other platforms that have commercials such as Amazon Prime, Roku, Pluto, and Tubi. They obviously want and need as many subscriptions as possible, of course...

I don’t think anyone needs a complete story to kick this thing off. I remember watching the first six episodes of Game of Thrones and actually getting a bit restless and bored, but I was into it for what I sensed would be some topflight world-building, just based on the bares bones I was...

So I watched Part 2 and enjoyed it. There’s nothing “bad” for me about the two PG13 cuts of Part 1 and Part 2. In particular I really like the characters, story, and universe/lore. I want to see the saga develop, and I look forward to the quest that the surviving team now has at the end of Part...

Yeah, that’s a good assessment. I POed mainly due to FOMO depending on how it looks in hand once it releases.

I dunno. I may end up eating the NRD and canceling this one. I’m noticing now that the diecast is only certain parts of the armor. Not sure that it’s really much of an upgrade from Battle Damaged 1.0, which I love, it’s one of my favorite figures. If it was full diecast yes. But partial?… eh...