Amentep

The Discord Mod surely? Forums are so 2004. Also The Twitch Streamer, The YouTuber, The InstaGrammer, The FaceBooker, The X (formerly known as Twitter)er...

The Programmer. The Executive. The Psychometrist. The Phlebotomist. The Courier. The Technologist. The Detailer. The Clerk. The Attendant. The Waiter. The Coordinator. The Inker. The Priest. The Guy Who Lives In A Van Down By The River. Truly, the possibilities are endless.

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GvK reportedly more than doubled the money it cost to make, so it made a profit. Merchandising probably was also good and the makers have invested a lot in it (cf The Monarch tv show tie-in).

Whenever adaptions come up, I always think of Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Threw out loads of stuff in his adaptions (Young and Innocent, for example, films the subplot of Josephine Tey's A Shilling for Candles not the actual plot of the novel), remade his own film, etc. Adaptions/Remakes aren't (IMO) the problem, inherently. I think King's problem with THE SHINING is that its a Kubrick film and not a King story. I seem to recall reading that he thought the film was good, but it missed what he thought was the point of the book, which is why he thought the TV miniseries was a better adaption of the book.

My understanding is Miller had to rely more on CGI due to filming during COVID than originally planned and like most films, the CGI in the trailer isn't finished.

Don't watch any Lucio Fulci films if you don't like dream logic applied to narrative. And I say that liking most of the Fulci films I've seen so far.

It does look lower budgeted; most of the complaints I've seen online haven't been about the budget, though. Given the spotty track-record on the Sony films, I can imagine they're keeping a tight control on the budget of this so I'm not surprised at its look. Potential for an interesting horror/thriller take with the set-up, I think. Sony only has Spider-Man related characters, so they're limited in what they can do. That's why they made a deal with Marvel regarding the Spider-Man proper movies to have integration with the MCU. The Sony only films have been Spider-Man villains-turned-anti-hero (Venom, Morbius) so far. This is the first one dealing with characters that are more-or-less tied to Spider-Man as heroes (an earlier film proposed Black Cat and Silver Sable, but never got off the ground).

I confess, I don't get the hate the trailer is getting. But it already created a meme with the 'studying with the mom in the amazon' line.

Since unlimited growth is impossible, the only way to continue to grow (and thus bring value to investors) is to take over other industries. When you run out of industries (or are locked out by bigger players), you have to begin destroying the services the government provides so you can expand into those territories. Education and the Post Office are just the 'low hanging fruit' of this endeavor.

Those are Medical Eye Patches as far as I know. Yoshihiko Noda made a stir appearing with one covering a black eye in January 2012 when he was PM. I've seen reference to them being prescribed for a variety of things, from detached retinas to styes.

Oh no, I keep it untangled. Can't stand tangled phone cords. >.<

I have a landline and its a rotary phone to boot.

Theatrical cut or Director's cut? Like a lot of Morgan Creek films, there was a good deal of editing to the theatrical released version.

Not sure that I want to be at a party where the lead Do is into castration...

We've had nobody for the better part of a decade. We still buy candy, but no one shows up on the street. Never was much in for decorating the house. Long gone are the days when I was a kid when I went up the street to a neighbors haunted tent house and ran home screaming. Lol.

I dunno, a lot of people are just...like...weird man. It was mostly doctors and nurses and firefighters, construction worker and other occupations easily identified by some outfit. Occasionally 6 year-olds in suits with a briefcase being a lawyer. Kind of harder to figure out an identifiable uniform for plumber, electrician, secretary, teacher and soul-numbed middle manager.

I think Trunk or Treat replaced the mall based events that replaced door-to-door stranger danger. But then malls died and became like...haunted derelicts too scary to go into and a lot of Church's dropped their events (or at least they're not advertising them at the local churches anymore - assume they've decided Halloween is anti-christian or whatever.

My former elementary school changed Halloween to "Careerween" and only allowed costumes if it represented a career because scary stuff is to scary/demonic/whatever. I assume they still do it, haven't been involved in years since I changed where I worked.

It was of Fantasy - one of the publicity shots of her and the floating head (had to crop out the floating head to make it work as an avatar). Sorry for the confusion. Should have added italics to House to be clear!

Love House - been a few years since I watched it. I had one of the leads as my avatar back when Criterion released it.