Nup, it's as useless as the Giant Robot fight in the middle of Bergman's Persona.

Yup!

The Creature rips the skin off a dog halfway through, if that's not your "the level of violence here is clearly beyond the pale" point, what is?

Should the creature start molesting women throughout the film? Kick a bunny rabbit? Burn down an orphanage?

It's like saying "I watched FROZEN the other day and it was so awful when Elsa fucked the snowman, this is a flaw in the movie"

Describing something that is fundamentally untrue about a film is not, I feel, valid film discourse, nor covered under the defence of being a "difference of opinion"

I once pressed a guy about "what about after", cause I have 13 specs and counting on my table, they aren't doing anything and he was like "I dunno, you can submit to the Blacklist site" 🙃

Yes!

I guess "Write your spec but don't make it too gay cause money people hate that"

Or "Write your spec... based off the IP you bought the rights to with a spare $150k you had lying around" aren't as catchy on twitter... 🙃

I think the thing that gets me is like yes, there are people who "want to be a writer" but don't want to write, but why are we catering advice for them?

They don't love writing, they just wanna be rich and famous. Genuine writers ALREADY ARE writing specs.

#Noirvember recommendation #4

Movies like Fury Road prove that shooting digital has nothing to do with whether or not you can make a movie look fucking fantastic.

It shits me to no end. We're so afraid of something not looking nice that everything just looks like nothing.

It's not even a digital vs film thing we just need to *stop diffusing* every damn light in a scene including and ESPECIALLY the sun!

Posting it, fine, old person moment, whatever
Gleefully going "i fucking love it and am listening to it over and over and over again" that's fucked.

Just you wait, Moana is gonna do fucking James Cameron numbers, you watch.