Nathan Guljas

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

Perfectly explains why all your movies are so shit.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Joe Russo explains why they filmed ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ with an unfinished script.

“We’re improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors. We like to see what the actors bring to the characters & sometimes you don’t get the actors until a few days or few weeks before you shoot them. And a lot of the time, that’s when the magic happens.”

(Source: https://t.co/ZrFptGTptA)

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

Double Fine has announced it will make BRUTAL LEGEND 2 if the company's new Kickstarter raises $100M

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@Apogee_Ent

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@RazorFist What do you mean, Razor? They only ever made one Mass Effect.

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@Nerdrotics It was freaking awesome! The best DC animated film in years.
Up there with Year One and The Dark Knight Returns, for sure.

Mask of the Phantasm is still GOATed, though.

Can’t wait to see the rest.

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@EliasToufexis Deus Ex, as a series, will always be worth revisiting/replaying.

Adam is still such an awesome character, despite his story being left open. Sucks that this franchise was murdered.

R.I.P. Deus Ex, you are sorely missed.

[Avi @inane_drivel_]

Dad trying to save me from my postpartum depression bitch mother.

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@RazorFist When I heard about the professor of plagiarism all I could think was:

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

Understanding the design philosophy itself isn’t the problem at all. It’s how the genre is labeled and marketed, which unfortunately has led to underperforming sales.

How would you get a AAA im-sim to sell well? Maybe market it as an RPG with emphasis on deeper world interactivity/player choice etc.?

At this point, the im-sim design philosophy should be the gold standard for most AAA RPGs, but like you pointed out, they’re mostly restrictive, with very little interactivity or depth.

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@RazorFist Definitely re-watching Tombstone tonight

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@ThatChrisGore @MidsummerScream John Carpenter! Absolute freaking legend!

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@inane_drivel_

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

Very simple.
Chandler explains it in The Simple Art of Murder:

"Flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes."

Sarcastic reportage - particularly when it isn't that clever, or directed at a character that warrants the sarcasm - is just glib. Flippant. It detracts, rather than adds to, the mystery and vibe.

Philip Marlowe is dismissive toward hoodlums because he has to speak a language they understand. To signal that, though he's a "good guy", he can still survive the underworld.
Marlowe, meanwhile, is almost sincere to the point of saccharine when speaking with the innocent.
Not sarcastic at all.

The Latina planetoid in Spider-Noir is constantly sarcastic - with "good" and "bad" characters alike - because she's a minority who has to be "strong".
"Strong", to the millennial, is wit.
And bad millennial writers - as Chandler warns - confuse flippance with wit.
They are talent-bereft and intellectually incompatible with the writing of characters who are actual characters:

Only cutouts, pastiches and thinly-plagiarized approximations of them.

Read more Hard-boiled '30s Crime fiction.

Heaven knows the writers of Spider-Noir didn't.

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

I don’t think there’s a TV writer alive today with the intelligence or sensibility to write actual film noir dialogue. They haven’t read Chandler or cared to watch classics and it shows.

They were just going for ‘the vibes’, and by that I mean they slapped on a black&white filter and called it a day.

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@RazorFist

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@RazorFist @fabiaschi Between that novel and this comic run, Solomon Kane is in a real slump right now…

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

When physical media doesn’t include the disc:

[Conan the Barbarian Official @conanbycrom]

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Conan the Barbarian: Queen of the Black Coast. ⚔️ 🤯 Series development for Prime Video

After finding love in the pirate queen, Bêlit, a battle-hardened Conan defies gods, fate, and even death to save her from a dark sorcery that threatens to destroy everything.

Executive Producer and Showrunner: Genndy Tartakovsky

Executive Producers: Darrick Bachman, Fred Malmberg, Mark Wheeler

Studio: Cartoon Network Studios

#entertainmentnews #genndytartakovsky #conanthebarbarian #animation fantas

[Nathan Guljas @NathanGuljas]

@heelvsbabyface Cranky Carlos having a bad take is as reliable as the sun coming up each morning.