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20 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Eventually enough of these will fail that they realize that anime zaniness and extreme personality traits do not translate to live action. It's like trying to make live action Looney Toons. The serious anime that would work as live action are often too violent or messed up.
You could never make Berserk in the West. I'm sure there won't be any hot takes about how the main female character is raped by demons until her brain breaks. Monster might work but has a couple of plot points that would be really hard to translate to live action.
Or hey let's make a Gurren Lagann live action movie where Yoko has her demure teacher's outfit for the entire show and a robot that's literally larger than the entire universe won't seem silly at all.

It. Just. Doesn't. Work.
Gunslinger Girl? Oh sure. Brainwash little kids into killers. The characters in Steins;Gate would seem stupid in live action. The characters in Eureka Seven would seem stupid in live action. Maybe Black Lagoon but how do you avoid it feeling like generic action? Baccano maybe?

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20 Nov
Israeli media also reporting that Rittenhouse killed two black people.
Chyron here calls him a white nationalist.
I almost don't blame them (despite the fact that media malpractice is media malpractice), but plenty of seemingly authoritative sources either said this or framed the story in a way that made it sound obvious that this is what had happened.
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16 Nov
I don't buy the argument that since some Star Wars movies made $1 billion plus and the Mandalorian was a huge hit is proof that Kathleen Kennedy is excellent and the envy of producers everywhere and that criticizing her makes no sense.
I mean her contract was renewed so clearly they are at the very least happen *enough* with her. It took 8 years to boot Ike Perlmutter from Marvel. The last Jedi isn't even 4 years old yet. These things don't happen super quickly.
If Kennedy were really humming along as well as Feige, they would have had serious production problems with three of their five films and have cancelled at least four future high-profile projects.
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16 Nov
I hate it when directors trash superhero movies. If you want to critique them, don't be an internet shitposter. People worked on those movies just as hard as you work on yours, and they provide entertainment for millions. Sorry your historical French tragedy didn't make bank.
It's not the industry's or the audience's fault that you made a movie about subject matter that most people don't care enough about to drag themselves to a theater during covid. Oh yay, a movie about a woman on trial for being raped. Fun Friday night activity!
Audiences are not dumber. They just have options. We are in a golden age of prestige TV and you'll never run out of quality stuff to watch until a movie like this is on demand. A theater used to be the only way to watch something like this.
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15 Nov
It would be nice if people stopped angrily advocating for unnecessary covid measures for things they never actually do themselves. If you're not going to theaters right now anyway, don't lecture the people who do go on how safe you think they should be. Mind your fucking beeswax.
You don't get to police the activities that I do and you don't just so you can feel safer about not getting it elsewhere. If you're worried, YOU be more careful. Wear an N95 and an ABC suit. Don't police my life for your peace of mind.
We're also acting like these measures make sense. DC gyms have been begging the city to let them instate a vaccine mandate as a replacement for masking and were told no. So you can go work out unvaccinated around people if you have a cloth mask half on your face. Good job, DC!
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15 Nov
Does the Star Wars franchise literally have a business practice of announcing future projects from huge names and then quietly or casually dropping them the second the person makes some movie that isn't universally praised and loved?
It's already happened with Josh Trank (Fant4stic), Colin Trevorrow (Book of Henry), D&D (Game of Thrones season 8), Rian Johnson (Last Jedi), Lord and Miller (Solo test footage) and now it seems they did it to Patty Jenkins over Wonder Woman 84.
As I was saying.
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14 Nov
Oh my god. I had an epiphany about TENET and something about how it works and how to look at the entire movie clicked in my brain and now I absolutely love it.
This isn’t something I can explain in a tweet but a good place to start is this video by @BenChinapen .

A couple of tips:
1. Anyone reversed already knows what’s happened.
2. During the plane crash scene, there are three Protagonists, not two.
I’m looking at this movie like Primer from now on. Multiple watching slowly holding more of the entire story in my head until everything just works. I’m almost there with this.
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