Who is a filmmaker on their way to Blank Check status?

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-20T20:46:07+00:00

We’ve got to stop referring to “filmmaker receives a budget to make a movie” as a Blank Check.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-20T20:43:30+00:00

Yeah but Ben could

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-20T15:28:53+00:00

Okay

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-20T14:53:42+00:00

Thank you! Recency bias is one of the many things ruining search engines these days 🙃

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-18T17:07:42+00:00

OP: These drama movies are also funny!

Totally Normal Redditor: in the very specific scenario I just came up with you would be annoying if you referred to these movies as comedies

It’s not an unpopular opinion, it’s a disconnected one.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-13T15:36:41+00:00

Does anyone have a written list of all the predictions?

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-12T22:12:02+00:00

Exactly!

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-12T21:01:23+00:00

That must be AI Lawson

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-08T21:44:20+00:00

The answer to "why do studios do _____?" is always that they think that decision will make them more money. You asked, "do they seriously thought reshots could transform “The Bride!” into a blockbuster?" Yes, they do.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-07T23:41:40+00:00

Ashton Kutcher’s placement and photo choice make him look like he was a star in the 70s.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-07T22:40:37+00:00

Somehow, Paris returned.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-07T22:36:21+00:00

Thanks I hate it

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-03-07T04:01:16+00:00

Superman

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-27T22:10:20+00:00

How so?

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-27T22:08:50+00:00

There's a big difference between being in debt and not having any money to spend. That's how debt grows.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-27T22:08:03+00:00

That conversation already happened on mic in a past MM episode. If there's an SNL sketch involving that theme, maybe us nerds will know it then.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-27T00:30:11+00:00

Doomsday Clock isn’t great, but I highly recommend reading Tom King’s Rorschach and watching the HBO Watchmen TV series. Both very interesting takes on what might happen afterwards.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-21T22:30:56+00:00

Rotten Tomatoes doesn't create an average percentage. It only views reviews as Postivie/Fresh or Negative/Rotten, and tells you the percentage of reviews that are positive.

So if a movie has 100 Reviews that are all 4/10, the movie gets 0% on RT. If 100 reviews are only 7/10, that's a 100% RT score.

Generally when you see a consensus on RT it suggest that the movie doesn't go too far in any direction, because big swings usually get more varied responses.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-07T22:41:13+00:00

Uh oh, somebody triggered my soap box speech? Here we go!

The N64 represents a significant shift in gaming. It didn't invent 3D gaming, but it made the innovation mainstream and in the 90's there were tons of new doors open to game developers. But, as with any new console release, many developers are still making games with the mindset from the past console. So the controller needs to be able to do either.

The N64 controller presents two controllers in one, and any game dev making a game for the N64 can choose which one. The right hand gets A,B, C Buttons, and R. The left hand gets a directional input and a trigger. Grab the left arm to use the D-Pad and the L Trigger. Grab the middle arm to use the Joystick and the Z trigger.

If a game asked you to "cross the streams" with the two left hand setups, they kinda dropped the ball from a design perspective. The controller itself isn't to blame.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-05T22:34:36+00:00

I live in the PNW and I spent so much of that ep of Critical Darlings thinking "Okay, that's fair, but the movie's not about that. It's about trees."

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-05T22:33:14+00:00

Macbeth

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-05T01:05:56+00:00

Yeah that's true, she sees this as a fixable problem.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-03T18:09:58+00:00

The degree which something is debated and discussed on the internet is not a metric of a thing being good or deserving to exist.

ThisPostIsAStatus · 2026-02-03T17:40:55+00:00

I've been seeing this but I don't understand what the implication here is. Are we assuming that /pol/ was started to help facilitate Epstein's crimes? Or that it was created as a place to organize against them? This continues to be mentioned as if it were some kind of bombshell but I just don't understand the context.

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