David Daut
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David Daut
@davidmdaut.com
Movie fan. Animation enthusiast. One-time pretend cowboy. Features writer & producer for the SOC’s Camera Operator magazine and co-creator of Hollow Medium. (He/him)

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Despite having “Movie” in the title, I would argue that THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE does not count as a movie by any meaningful definition!
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why go through the trouble of making an actual movie with characters and themes and a story when you can just spend 100 minutes saying, “hey, remember this?” and make a billion dollars?
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Just put on RANGO and tell your kids it’s ZOOTOPIA 2.
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I like it a lot, but the thing I’ve always said is it would benefit from having fewer animatronics and more sculpted, limited motion figures à la Fantasyland.
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This playlist is still very much under construction! Definitely open to adding more
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
They're fun! If you're a fan it's nice to have the extra time with the characters and that world. I'm glad they exist! But the theatrical cuts are just fundamentally better as movies.
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The dogmatic insistence that the Extended Editions are not just superior but are—in fact—the only versions worth watching set the stage for things like expanding WICKED into a shambling, five-hour slog and re-doing HARRY POTTER as seven seasons of TV. In this essay I will
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My main quibbles are LAST JEDI should be higher and PHANTOM MENACE and SITH should trade places
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Knott’s: “Buy a season pass for 9 payments of $8!”

Disney: “Please don’t make us say how much the monthly payments are”
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM