“ROMANCING THE ROCK”

Maybe it’s me, but I always understood Howard. For a guy put in the positions he was put in, his choices made sense to me. If anything I tended to feel bad that he got caught in the middle of drama he just didn’t know the full story about. There’s something about him that feels coded to ‘villain’, but he’s the guy…

Raiders is a huge amount of fun, but I’d disagree that it’s only an amusement park ride or a bunch of set pieces. That would describe Temple of Doom, which is really awful, and that movie is where the thinness of the characters and the bolted together plot really stick out.

Yeah, as if we're going to believe anyone besides Avery Brooks could play Hawk. 

No she wasn't. 

I guess part of the reason I’m enjoying this more than most is I didn’t go into it feeling like I was promised ‘a visit with old friends’. I knew there would be nostalgia and fan service, yes, and it is very effective as this episode shows. But what I was expecting, and wanting, was a new story in the Trek universe -…

I know it’s derivative, but I enjoyed ‘The Force Awakens’, and I’m one of those people who liked ‘The Last Jedi’ a whole lot. But ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ will go down as one of the all-time cinematic bed-shittings in history.

Sounds to me like it makes him her grandfather AND her father.

That makes him quite specifically NOT her grandfather though.

We know Kim was from a tiny town on the Kansas-Nebraska border that no one’s ever heard of, and that she knew she had to leave or she’d end up working as a cashier at the Hinky Dinky and married to the guy who ran the gas station. That sort of background seems totally in keeping with how she describes her childhood…

Was a writer you mean.  Mulaney hasn’t worked there in years(other then hosting)

Betty’s tossed-off line that “people will say we’re in love” makes awkward reference to Oklahoma!. The Rodgers and Hammerstein allusion feels like a weird fit for both Betty and the show,

I haven’t seen Crystal Skull since it was in theatres, but I honestly didn’t think it was terrible. It was perfectly ok, aside from Shia LeBeef doing Tarzan yells. I loved having Marion back. I liked the opening scene. I didn’t mind the aliens. (Last Crusade made Indy literally immortal because be drank from the true…

Unpopular Opinion: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is better than Temple of Doom. Less racist too. 

I actually got an answer on this, and you’re right, it was a Churchill thing. 

Sounds like someone didn’t get any love in the early 90s. Mazzy Star was a great “mood setter”. 

Her age was always sort of messed up, since they never recast the role on Breaking Bad, which meant that by the last season you had a character who was supposed to be like seven or eight years old but the actress was now a tween. Eventually they had Hank mention that she was ten, which was probably an attempt to split…

While I wouldn’t go as far as to say that Rich Fulcher is “heavenly talent”, the guy was just in an Oscar-nominated movie and has a consistent career on various slezy-weirdo comedy shows.

Sadly, the period is too late for Cadfael. He’d have spotted the sprig of parsley or wort leaf that would have proven the students innocent and revealed the real killers to have been Cambridge ruffians.

Was Sonic the Hedgehog’s disastrous initial design reveal actually intentional?