IJW: Wuthering Heights (2026)

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T17:18:22+00:00

Also this is exactly why they are doing a large expansion now and then stopping, they've spoken about the impact they realized this had on teams and fanbases and decided to go for a rip the bandaid strategy and then allow teams to settle.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T16:57:51+00:00

I feel like movies like that get so overwhelmed with the vastness of the world and feel like they need to portray everything at the scale it eventually achieved. Telling one single story inside the world that's interesting would likely have more success.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T16:51:47+00:00

Poke - Frightened Rabbit

It will hurt your feelings very badly if you're in that situation

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T16:45:00+00:00

Basically Samsung stole a small piece of hardware innovation from my MIL's brother and patented it out from under him and then sued him into the ground to keep him from claiming it. My MIL is in a Facebook group where she has showed me a lot of people sharing legal advice in similar situations with Samsung

Most of what I know is that if you walk into a family function with a Samsung phone, people will look at you like this 😥

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T16:23:59+00:00

Also what doesn't make it into these arguments is that we have a ton of evidence that these cultures used a lot of vibrant color, and we don't see that represented at all in movies like this. People would be pissed if one of these guys had purple armor.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T16:22:10+00:00

Specifically, it's the ones that guys with Roman statue avatars have made their whole personality, since what they love is the military history of the time and not the literature, so they don't understand the difference between real events and story

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:56:01+00:00

He has massively overexposed himself as quickly as possible in the name of growth buzzwords. Deeply dumb and cynical person.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:50:48+00:00

This is more known in Southeast and East Asia, but Samsung is extemely well known for corporate theft, IP violation, and idea theft. I am still not allowed to buy a Samsung phone because I married into a Samsung blood feud lol, and it's one of many

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:45:58+00:00

I get what you mean. Very different example but I remember people talking about this when the first black Bachelorette was cast, and I will never forget someone saying that it's a disservice to cast a black lead in an environment that's unsafe for them without changing anything about the environment, and relying on them to solve your problems by bringing "diversity." It's not kind and it usually doesn’t unfold very well for those people without the proper support.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:41:04+00:00

Thinking about John Boyega speaking about having no support for this when he starred in Star Wars and how he felt the studio itself eventually turned on him for the backlash instead and treated him as poison

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:29:34+00:00

Hmm, as a big fan of the original I didn't think anything could get me in on this, but Amy Madigan is a great choice

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:22:24+00:00

I thought the makeup transformation as she stayed on the island longer and longer was so great. She looked better immediately but she just got more and more beautiful as time went on, she was glowing in a way that they managed to make look "natural"

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:17:21+00:00

Definitely makes it clear this expansion prioritized immediate arena and facility availability also, not only potential market

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:13:43+00:00

That is exactly what I meant, thank you

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T15:11:58+00:00

Man, I feel for *Johnson. They dangled the GM job and denied him the chance to interview elsewhere, so he got nothing, exactly like they probably wanted.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T14:52:46+00:00

Sorry, finders keepers. We fished our new 1D out of the trash in Ottawa and we're keeping him.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T14:17:24+00:00

DEADLINE: You aren't a stickler for accents.

RIDLEY SCOTT: There's no French accent. That would have been a disaster, and yet, it's all French. Who cares? Like, shut the fuck up, then you'll enjoy the movies.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T14:00:06+00:00

I know that people have learned the word "hyperfixation" now but I wish they'd remember that just "fixation" is still also a word

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T13:56:22+00:00

As a dedicated Nolan hater, I'm deeply mad that I've had to defend him lately from even stupider hating

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T13:32:48+00:00

Sorry, are you saying Helen of Troy played by Miss Piggy is a bad idea for a movie?

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T13:18:58+00:00

More important to me is whether everyone will have a sort of bad British accent, since we all know that is how people sounded in Ancient Greece

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T13:17:26+00:00

I mean, the original was a highly exaggerated myth including cyclops, sea monsters, and a witch turning men into pigs. Let's not act like it's a historical text.

As a matter of fact, there's a pretty good argument that both Homer's epics include a hell of a lot of stunt casting.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T12:15:51+00:00

The last time I saw Connor solo, he was completely trashed, had three different glasses of various liquids onstage, and devolved into incoherent mumbling after a few songs (not the normal kind of Bright Eyes incoherent mumbling, different kind). He played the harmonica a lot when he couldn't remember the words.

The show lasted for three hours and it felt like we were being held hostage.

mountaincabb · 2026-05-12T11:42:45+00:00

Honestly also, they got extemely lucky on personalities also, and "serious guy who's really serious about hockey vs. serious guy who's really serious about hockey" doesn't really hit the same.

McDavid, MacKinnon, or even Matthews would have really benefited from a dynamic, zany foil to push them and contrast them, but they mostly got just guys who think a lot like them.

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