It's a longer story than I want to get into at the moment, so the very short form is Disney had fired the guy who green-lit the movie and deliberately tanked it to deny him a "win."
To this day most think a financially successful film was Disney's biggest bomb.
Normally I wait until after I've read the relevant article to share, but, the bottom line is, by compiling and analyzing all the reporting Seth is drawing correct conclusions before anyone else. If you're not reading him you're weeks-to-months-to-YEARS behind on understanding things.
Now? Now you're pissed off? Just now?
Damn, I thought you were pissed off back in 2018! I was wrong! So, so wrong!
(said with levity)
(I wish I had proofread the above before posting. Poor grammar FTL!)
Next thing you know someone will tell you the Zach Snyder Superman - a character who is invulnerable, super strong, shoot lasers from his eyes, and fly when exposed to fluorescing hydrogen, but loses those powers if exposed to fluorescing HELIUM - is "more realistic..."
I do know the US Secret Service has a file on me.
Nancy Regan was speaking in my town, and some men in dark suits had a long "intimidating" chat with me (after taking fingerprints) because teenaged me kept shouting, "Hey, Nance, 'Just Say No' to TAX FRAUD!"
If you've watched any sci-fi film with a giant monster made after 2003 you've probably heard a descending "GLUG-GLUG glug-glugglug" sound element. That's me, phlegm burping with the microphone against my throat pitch shifted down four octaves.
Nothing else I have/will do(ne) will reach so many.
I did this sound effect for a company which did anamatronic dinosaurs for live display. The company later revamped "Jurassic Park, the Ride" for Universal. Which is how the effect ended up in Universal and Legendary's libraries.
According to the original contract I have legal rights to sell the SFX
If you've watched any sci-fi film with a giant monster made after 2003 you've probably heard a descending "GLUG-GLUG glug-glugglug" sound element. That's me, phlegm burping with the microphone against my throat pitch shifted down four octaves.
Nothing else I have/will do(ne) wikl reach so many.
Full page "ad" in The Onion for "60 Minutes": "Is NBC Hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates."
That's fucking terrifying.
Nevigrof er'uoy.
Rose-tinted nostalgia glasses on "sharper, brighter, vivid." pixel counts and color space gamuts objectively torpedo that.
He may be thinking frame rates "were higher" because shot on video media would have 59.94 FIELDS of temporal information. HD remasters at 29.97fps WOULD lose half the fields.
Leaving it the hell alone and airing it as the original production team intended?
I mean at least they reframed with previously unused film stock rather than cropping a crop?
Can always tell when Seth is REALLY fucking angry when he just spells out the word instead of using f***ing asterisks.
Yet annoyingly successful dunces.
That's not Team America. I think it's a take on the joke, "The beatings will continue until morale approves."
Love me some Team America. Think it's the best satire of that decade... Except, in 2026... It's mild compared to reality.
Because the corporate media would have to admit Seth's curatorial journalism - reading everyone else's articles and generating conclusions from that - has been more effective analysis than what they do.
Rather than admit they could come to accurate reporting by cross referencing they ignore Seth.
It's literally in the post you're responding to.
"Proof of Conspiracy" by Seth Abramson. 2019.
Ah, so, after reading your linked article we can say Probert and Cobb submitted designs, they went more with Cobb's design ethos, but Probert ended up doing the final tweaks after Cobb left the project.
As often happens, it was collaboration and both of these brilliant designers contributed.
Huh. I thought Andrew Probert designed the BttF Delorean.
I'm shocked.
Mostly because for years I've said Zaslav's job was to fuck up Warner Bros enough to drive its value down enough for DISNEY to buy it (giving Disney Marvel AND DC)...
As I age I'll divest more and more from media.
Between corporate consolation and AI slop I don't care anymore.
Or now they can market themselves as the "moral" AI company as they lobby the US, UK and EU governments to allow them to scrape copyrighted material...
The hazards of being bilingual.
RIP Rob Grant (70), Spitting Image writer and co-creator of Red Dwarf.
He'd just dropped the teaser for his Red Dwarf prequel ("one universe over"), "Titan."
Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast.
Smeg.
www.thesun.co.uk/tv/38349559/...
You suck, Kansas.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Probably good you're late to the game. Cyberpunk 2077 was notoriously broken on launch and needed multiple patches to get it into shape.
Why have I never looked up the cult classic animated short "The Wizard of Speed and Time" by Mike Jittlov on YouTube before yesterday? I've loved it for over 40 years!
youtu.be/7CAYCeQeIYc?...
