Just chiming in here to say that this is great news. This series was so, so well done, and chilling all the way through. I didn’t realize until after I watched that they used real life interview transcripts for the interview scenes (exclusively, I think). That gave it more creepiness and authenticity; but the very…

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But Lindelof was also helpful to Michael Schur when he was developing The Good Place, so... that’s a point in his favor. But yeah, I hated Prometheus and never did finish Lost.

How many people are still alive that give a damn about Elvis?

A pile of rocks isn’t scary? No shit, that’s why you need to act like it is

Putting someone else in the role is a good course correction for the character. I didn’t see the movies, I’m sure they were fineish. I’ve read a few of the books and the main reason, I think, that people were so upset about casting little Tom Cruise was... being big is pretty much Jack Reacher’s only trait. I mean,…

I like that the random(ish) capitalization in his tweets extends to “Racist”. He’s unconsciously giving the description pride of place.  Or maybe I’m overthinking it and should just believe him when he says he’s “the least Racist person you know!”

This will probably be not good at all.  Tom Hanks as Parker is a decent idea and will be one of the few times Hanks is not a heroic type but... It will probably be a bad movie.  

At one point during the initial backlash against the movie, with a lot of people saying the acting was bad, Heather Donohue said “I’ve got news for you.  A pile of rocks is not scary.”  I think she and the others did a great job and while the movie had its flaws I don’t think the characters or the way they acted was…

So, decades ago, Anthony Quinn was talking about playing a black man. I’m not sure, but it might have been for the movie of The Man, based on the 1964 Irving Wallace novel. The movie was eventually made with James Earl Jones because come on. But Quinn’s point, such as it was, was that if he wanted to play a part, he…

get people who aren’t easy to hunt and give them guns before hunting them

I’m pretty sure Macron and his lab full of mad French scientists just invented this so Trump could watch it, after his failed imitation of their military parade.

I would so like to see a French Spider-Man.

I’m halfway through Mr. Strangelove, a biography of Peter Sellers by Ed Sikov. Very good so far. I’ve read at least one other Sellers bio, but this one has a perfect balance. Sellers was often not a very nice man, and truthfully some of his projects in film, tv and radio weren’t great. Sikov acknowledges this but…

most of Arnold’s comedies sucked

that movie [Favreau’s Jungle Book] wanted to be a direct remake but also its own thing.

Yeah, I’m partway through Ash vs. Evil Dead and am really impressed. Not just with the effects (I’m just knowledgeable enough about CG to not be surprised that people with skills and a decent script can Make Things Look Real) but the story as well. It feels like a natural continuation of the Evil Dead movies (despite…

I say, send Ash back to the 1890s and have him meet Briscoe County Jr.

Your list of reasons to see the movie is a good one, but you left out a big reason: It ignores the last three movies

I’m trying to remember, but weren’t most of the terminators in the “SarahConnor Chronicles” female?