I think you’ve got an admirably optimistic outlook. I hope you’re correct. However, I am afraid that you may be underestimating human greed and selfishness. Those aren’t unique traits to any generation. Maybe it’s human nature, maybe it’s learned through existence in a capitalistic / hierarchically organized society. In any case, I am not confident that youth alone will prevent people from seeing the kind of country and world that was left to them, as you put it, and not desire to possess as much of the remnants as possible in an outburst of self-interest.

For every person that sees the ice caps melting and wants to fix it somehow, I’m afraid there’s almost certainly at least one other person who thinks, “Hell yeah, new oceanfront property just dropped, how can I own/sell it?”

Say what you will of the aesthetic being virtually insane, but personally, I think it’s supa dupa fly.

Ooooo, if I sit and think about this one, I’ll be completely unable to settle on a single pick, so I’m just going with my knee jerk reaction. Return of the Living Dead perfectly hits the intersection of comedy and horror that I like out of my zombie media.

Coheed and Cambria’s lastest album (Window of the Waking Mind) has gotten me back into their work for the first time since high school. I think it might be their best work, which is not something you can say for many band’s 10th album.

I wrote a lil blurb post in a community for the band here on Lemmy. If there are other Coheed fans wandering through, check it out.

Right there with you buddy. I get the antipathy with which remakes are treated nowadays, but this isn’t yet another rehash of Spiderman or Batman. It’s been 70 years since the og film. A sizable chunk of the population will never watch it simply because of its age, either due to their bias against “old” movies or due to plain ignorance. I might even say most people fall into that camp.

Plus, it’s not like there’s all that much that is sacrosanct about the original picture. In cultural memory, the og film is basically just the title, the suit design, and maybe the image of the creature holding a lady in his arms. As long as the remake hits those beats, it basically has free reign to go anywhere else in terms of story. Furthermore, new tech is going to allow for different approaches to filming, especially the underwater sequences, that should serve to make the movie actually frightening to a modern audience. The OG is an impressive technical achievement (I’m not sure how common underwater photography was at the time, but I can’t imagine it was a widespread practice), but I would not classify it as scary.

Idk, I just think this is an example of a “flawed” film getting a second chance with the benefit of modern filmmaking techniques, or the exact sort of project people always cite as an appropriate use of the remake format (as opposed to someone remaking a movie which holds up).

I’m not holding my breath that this announcement will go anywhere, it seems like they e been trying to get a remake off the ground since the 80s, but while everything is speculative, I’d rather focus on the opportunities a remake offers than fixate on the myriad ways they could fuck it up.

Blackgate.com - the remnants of Black Gate magazine, which was published from 2000-2011 and then continued in digital form since. It focuses primarily on vintage literary fantasy, though occasionally the an article will be published in films or new fiction. Of particular note to nerds is the Cinema of Swords column by Lawrence Ellsworth, who fantasy fans may be familiar with as the Principal Narrative Designer for Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m not so immersed in the fantasy world that I understand most of what is discussed on the blog, but it is a nice taste of the old Internet, one which might resonate with other fediverse users.