Michael Leinart

Enterprise Services Architect and Head of Product at Sedona Technologies. Opinions expressed are my own.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@JoyceCarolOates Yes, 100%, and I have a difficult time explaining this to people. It is simply a reliably wrong first step for winning my investment as a reader/audience.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@illjoy_ Oh yes I felt this setting in before the credits even rolled.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

What I love about this is that it should be plain to anyone that The Spreadsheet shows them it continues to be worth it in aggregate to churn out these slavish live-action remakes as long as they hit target dates and maintain some (I’m guessing rather sophisticated) budget controls, i.e. constraints that either have nothing to do with quality or perhaps actively work against it. But that’s the one thing they can’t say, because people will find it revolting. So every time, they have to stagger back onto the battlefield and pretend This One Might Actually Be Really Good, We Swear

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@faceuh8 I saw this coming from the first ten minutes of THE MUMMY in 1999.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@soychotic I’d try to come up with a varied list for you but there’s a bright red sign in my brain that’s just blinking *GENE WOLFE* and I can’t really think past it.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@brackengeorge1 @dee_of_e Possibly the most breathtakingly correct opinion on this. Perhaps add DEKALOG.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@CrispinSartwell @dee_of_e This is a big part of it. The exceptions tend to prove the rule, e.g. good luck simply finding a David Lynch you can hire to run your show. No, a celebrated “showrunner” is not a substitute here.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

I only ever seem to collect reinforcement for my notion that for several decades there hasn’t been enough quality writing *or* acting available to adequately support more than 5% of the volume of mass-market TV that gets produced—and that is a very different thing than saying “only 5% of mass-market TV turns out well.” That would be a considerable improvement.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@faceuh8 p.s. if you just outright hate marketing comprehensively, this is probably the best basis for that point of view.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

The phenomenon you’re naming is downstream of when people started rejecting the way highbrow culture used to trickle down into and drive middle-brow and lowbrow tastes (not that this was ever a one-way influence.)

What people miss now is a sense of the substance and richness and capacity for surprise in culture/tastemaking that resulted from that dynamic, and as a result they hearken back to the most recent time it was still intact, which was the eighties.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@VK_HM This had to be such a frustrating show to work on.

[Bill Ryan @faceuh8]

@mikeleinart okay well the idea of being Gene Wolfe weird, to my knowledge, only ever occurred to one guy

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@faceuh8 Not inescapable. Ya just gotta commit to staying weird. Too weird. Gene Wolfe weird.

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@franzsherbert The first two are technical garbage piles on multiple levels

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@faceuh8 It’s aspirational. “I know I would be a better person if I thought about this once a week.”

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@faceuh8 It's gonna be wild (by which I mean: agony) watching people manage their fan psychosis when this comes out b/c it will throw them into absolutely batshit maneuvering to avoid dealing directly with the original movies being **terrible**.

[dem haffi gang mi🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩⌐╦╦═─ @jmsshltn]

@lowlandsapien That punch came from hell

[Don Cornleone™ @schmook]

@HamHock42 This is almost as bad as the time at a tailgate some guy brought a thing of chili and nothing to cook it on, I had also brough chili, that i spent like two days prepping and all huge pot/stove and everything to make it, and without asking he just dump his in with mine.

[Emo Philips @EmoPhilips]

by doing what

[Michael Leinart @mikeleinart]

@Mike_M_Klotz Totally nihilistic. Abusive to the inhabitants.