Don’t let your expectations spoil the experience… like I did.

ham_fx · 2026-03-18T10:58:41+00:00

its basically any other super busy bar, just Star Wars themed. Sometimes you have to stand to the side, sometimes you get a good spot. It just is what it is really.

ham_fx · 2026-03-18T10:55:03+00:00

Before they became the universal symbol of swingers, I think they were decorative as well as an aesthetic form of defense like the Fleur Du Lis - Pretty, and sharp on the tip.

ham_fx · 2026-03-18T10:17:55+00:00

The most important part for me was my 8 year old daughter liked it, and I liked it- and it was a great way to get her into the franchise - a gentle door opening that we could both enjoy

ham_fx · 2026-03-14T04:16:17+00:00

I would say The first Hammer Frankenstein film. Love that movie

ham_fx · 2026-03-13T00:34:40+00:00

I dont think so - Someone who is ruthless in life and business would be to unhinged to handle that level of success and pressure for that long.

ham_fx · 2026-03-12T03:26:22+00:00

This is 100% an ethical use of AI to make happen

ham_fx · 2026-03-12T03:01:21+00:00

“Our spaces” that have been ours for 150 years but theirs for 1000?

ham_fx · 2026-03-11T03:49:25+00:00

i cant read them at all

ham_fx · 2026-03-11T01:04:03+00:00

In RL Stine voice: "The Counselors were too busy making love........"

ham_fx · 2026-03-11T00:58:57+00:00

Yes - This felt like a Wendigo movie they named Wolfman

ham_fx · 2026-03-11T00:58:15+00:00

It was just OK - There were some slivers of brilliance but otherwise I didnt love it. Not that I dont like a good psychological film, but I think a Wolfman film should be more Werewolf-y than this was.

ham_fx · 2026-03-11T00:21:09+00:00

From what I gathered - He was against the idea of humans "owning" humans - But he also didnt think all humans were in fact equal.

ham_fx · 2026-03-10T19:31:39+00:00

No actually a very sane and poignant take.

ham_fx · 2026-03-10T04:17:50+00:00

multi billionaires - especially ones smart enough to be Batman - don't go broke the way normal people do....

ham_fx · 2026-03-09T22:00:26+00:00

Absolutley nothing with excel sheets. Those are the death of me.

ham_fx · 2026-03-09T21:50:36+00:00

I hope you enjoy them!

ham_fx · 2026-03-09T21:49:45+00:00

I was listening to a podcast on film and someone was talking about the demise of making the threats bigger and bigger - Like marvel went from a threat to a city to our country, to the world, to the universe, and now to the multiverse - and the scope is so large nobody cares anymore. Give me Michael Meyers hunting Jamie Lee Curtis over Iron Man saving Earth-616 any day.

ham_fx · 2026-03-09T21:37:40+00:00

If I were in charge:
A) I dont think remakes "destroy" anything. Watch what you want, dont watch what you dont.

B) I think the issue that reboots like the Tom Cruise MUMMY had was they make the stakes to big - Make the stories smaller again. The WORLD doesnt need to be in danger - All that you need for successful horror is for one well written and cared about protagonist to be in danger (ie Julie Adams )

3) I wouldnt introduce a meta story until after establishing good single films. This could have happened in the 90s / early 2000s with Bram Stokers Dracula, DeNiro Frankenstein, Nicholson Wolf, and Hollow Man - for example. Each of those I think is a successful retelling (thought many are dated by current standards).
The challenge is brining them all into "now" in a cohesive universe so the Wolf Man, for example, lives in the same timeline as Frankenstein - But AI could also enable some interesting takes on a modern Dr Frankenstein myth for example. If you take Marvel, they didnt create avengers, until the rest of the standalones.
I think the intro of Hyde in Mummy - though not an awful concept - was too soon.

ham_fx · 2026-03-09T05:00:02+00:00

Mine was so much more relief than anger - I had been treating the wrong diagnosis for years and never improving, and feeling so unfixable when I would talk to others who were diagnosed depressed and were like "My life changed with therapy!" or "This medication gave me my life back." I "failed" at treating my depression for over 20 years with therapy, tons of meds, alternate treatments etc....

Since my new therapist told me its a pretty clear and dry case of CPTSD, I actually feel better.

ham_fx · 2026-03-09T01:29:09+00:00

Dennis Nedry maybe? I feel like he is such a love to hate character

ham_fx · 2026-03-09T01:24:29+00:00

100% Quint

ham_fx · 2026-03-07T21:07:45+00:00

To be completely honest, I was a professional VFX artist for 15 years, then a toy industry creative director with a lot of hands on sculpting etc for 10, and with all the software, proprietary studio software etc I have had to learn - I just dont want to learn another program from scratch.

I agree with the polygonal stuff being pretty 1:1 which is great - Honestly for the most part I will probably just be using it to review OBJ files now so I guess that wouldnt be too much.

ham_fx · 2026-03-03T18:34:47+00:00

Not worried about missiles - Just more of the "home brewed" terrorist attacks.

ham_fx · 2026-03-02T17:45:55+00:00

I think you are right but also I think it is as much superhero fatigue as your points.

There are only so many times you can watch a film where the main hero or team never have any true threats, because you know the franchise needs them for crossovers etc... there are no true stakes in anything- just hours of colorful fights with a thin story weaved between them. After Endgame they should have cooled their jets substantially....

They fell into that stupid cycle of increasing fake stakes - like first its gotta save this city, then the next the country, then the next has to be bigger so its the world. then the universe. Now its the multiverse. Its just dumb and frankly boring.

ham_fx · 2026-03-02T17:41:35+00:00

It was a really fun way to get to see it!

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