Meat and Steinman were massively bombastic - and I mean that in the best possible way. I’m okay with music that punches me in the face like theirs did.

Meatloaf and Steinman were FUCKING EPIC together. Both were great artists, but both elevated each other’s work to all new heights.

All this time I thought they were two separate groups.

Funny, January is a dry month for me too - but not booze, because I haven’t touched that in years. I’m weed free for the month, mostly to reset my cannabis tolerance.

That’s a smart idea. I have a pretty good kit in my trunk - jumper cables, emergency blanket, first aid kit, road flares, 100 bucks and a small crank radio - but some energy bars or an MRE or two would not go amiss.

Yeah, but it disproves your theory that a bad film franchise can endure for only so long. See also: Aliens, Preditor, Terminator and countless franchises well past the sell-by date, that haven’t been good for decades yet refuse to go away.

You do realize that review aggregates are meaningless, right? Pure, 100% marketing bullshit.

You see the buildings on the very left? Then look at the very right? See those buildings? Now go find a picture of any real-world sprawling metroplex. Pretty even and uniform, right? Why then is there a large building free area in the Mos Espa skyline?

This will be the last of the Matrix films as there is only so much an audience is willing to bare when it comes to bad filmmaking.

I saw Speed Racer for the first time this past week, and so far the Wachowskis are the only Western directors to ever make a live-action adaptation of an anime with any real degree of accuracy. You may not like it (I wasn’t all that into it) but you have to respect the talent

I want it to play out like the end of Cannon Films did, where Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus had a falling out, went on to form their own production companies and then raced to release their Lambada movie first before the other one did.

Speed Racer was atrocious.

(I’m only responding since I have the image handy)

Why not? The times we see the skyline, Mos Espa is in the distance and is plenty big enough to have topography we’re not aware of. The huge section fo the skyline right above our three pretty much vanishes - that could easily be our crater

That this pilot is merely “eh, fine” instead of amazing still puts it ahead of, say, almost every Star Trek pilot (save MAYBE for Deep Space 9),

Especially since they needed to get all the housekeeping out of the way for the fanboys, like the sarlac trip and that sort of thing. Next episode we’ll start getting to the meat of the story.

Except they were still totally using the shields. Did you not notice the one assassin land on the other’s?

The proper term is “People of the Sand”, you philistine.

Huh, that’s interesting. I think we just got a transgendered twi’lek.

looks like the only Planet Boba won’t go to is Planet Fitness