Stephan Krosecz

They're both so genuinely charming in their scenes together

literally seconds before me about to post the same thing

I'm pretty good at Cine2Nerdle though

That may be even more accurate haha

"Infeminite" sounds like an all-female race of curvaceous aliens in some sci-fi strategy game nobody remembers but some men on the internet take REALLY seriously

That might be more accurate haha

I'm also as a storyteller simply more interested in TV as a medium than films, I've come to accept.

I really like a good movie and there's a lot to learn from it, but I connect with good long-form storytelling even more.

I absolutely will not watch movies that don't interest me. I don't care if they're historically important, I gotta know I'll enjoy it. Otherwise I could just be spending that time making something instead.

I feel like cinephiles are more interested in watching movies in general than I am lol

It's honestly so weird being a guy who knows many things about movies, is heavily invested in filmmaking, and closely studies the art of audio/visual storytelling... but is not a cinephile.

I'm simply not qualified to call myself that.

Yeah, they're working pretty consistently still.

Even with the show ending on a creative low note it's not like they lost HBO money tangibly, so studios will happily greenlight stuff from them still.

Just maybe not Confederate lol

looks like this and the Edgar Wright Running Man might make for a great double feature

hell yeah, man

In which case: even more reason to not make Confederate.

I also think we have to consider the possibility that they genuinely were trying to do a good job, but without directly adapting the books that's legitimately the best they could do.

I just remember thinking about how the different houses in GoT were merchandise, and shuddering at the thought of HBO being tone-deaf and running 'Confederate' through that same machine.

Remember when the Game of Thrones guys were like "we're gonna make Confederate, a show about if the South had won"

And everybody said "no thank you, please do not do that"

I think people genuinely get mad about being expected to think about stuff sometimes, like you're doing them harm by encouraging any evaluation of what they're consuming.

And I get other people don't do it for fun, but it IS important for SOMEONE to pay attention to it.

I have had this thought a few times lol

The nearly 20k people who happen to be named "Epstein" are really going through it because of this Jeff guy

that is a very salient argument

however, I must stubbornly stick to my guns in order to pretend I'm never wrong: CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP IS NO LONGER SOUP

Also the KFP2 is even better in a lot of ways, KFP3 is less good but still pretty good, and I never saw the 4th one and don't plan to.

I think that's there, but because we're made to identify with the robots more it makes the humans look like spoiled rich kids who don't acknowledge the help.

The worst thing about Kung Fu Panda is the name and marketing, which I don't really care about since that's not what makes a movie good.

It's a simple message, but it's also not muddled with weird mean shit and ultimately delivers on being a fun film with a sincere heart to it.

Plus the action scenes are genuinely astounding and John Powell's score is great.

(Zimmer's co-credited, but let's be real it's Powell's score.)

Meanwhile Kung-Fu Panda is a movie about a kid who can't achieve his full potential because he's internalized all the things other people say about him.

But when his teacher chooses to look past his own biases and genuinely help Po in the way he needs, he's capable of more than anyone thought.

If humans were just extinct due to their own carelessness, and the ship Wall-E found was just full of machines continuing to maintain a system for a humanity that no longer exists, that would have at least been a real statement.

And would've also helped us avoid all the worst stuff in the movie.

Wall-E harms its own message by simultaneously portraying humans as destructive, lazy, and careless while also making sure they're not actually culpable for anything they do.

It's muddled and mean-spirited.

I like when the little robots fall in love, though. That part is nice.

Also, interesting dichotomy: KFP is shockingly sincere, but Wall-E is shockingly cynical.

It believes people, when left to their own devices, are inherently lazy and uncreative people.

And if we're looking at how the two films view fat people... one is clearly much kinder than the other, if flawed

It sure is unfortunate that Wall-E actually has A LOT of dialogue.

I think one of my weirdest movie takes is that Kung Fu Panda is a way better film than Wall-E and deserved more credit than it got in 2008 lol

Is it silly and juvenile? Yeah. But it also uses those things to achieve its goals as a film, so that's a win.

Wall-E... is good when there is no dialogue.