Monthly Archives - June 2023

AI Apology

I was laughing when I read the first line. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum isn't just a bad idea for a game. It's a bad game period. 2023 is the year that Bethesda's model of "just release a game that is more buggy than an anthill and then patch your way to something playable before the first steam sale," went mainstream. Yes, this is yet another AAA title that was far too underbaked to justify its $60 price tag. I can...

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Ratings Terrorism?

Yeah, that's a new one. Unusual description for bad foreign reviews of the new Little Mermaid, wouldn't you say? Now if you are Disney it's a perfectly understandable one. Disney Studios was banking big on this film being a hit of Aladdin and Lion King levels. Instead, it's going to lose money. The foreign box office is absolutely dead for this thing. The Lion King and Aladdin were more or less faithful adaptations of classic, hand-drawn animated films from Disney's 1990s...

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Is Elemental Pixar’s Last Film?

The house that Lasseter built will shortly be launching Elemental.  A romance between a flame elemental (kickass female) and a water elemental (hopeless simp).  Wonderful.  The cast is one long checklist and it was directed by the same guy who helmed The Good Dinosaur.  Peter Sohn being one of the few creative lights at Pixar that Jon Lasseter didn’t see fit to tuck under his arm and run off to Skydance with.  Elemental has a budget of $200 million and a release date of June...

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