"Why did Mr. Milo cross the road? Because his dick was stuck in the chicken!"

This is actually one of the problems I have with the film. In the first, the Terminator is rarely off-screen for more than five, ten minutes at a time. He just never stops coming after Sarah and Reese. In the second, you get this long stretch in Mexico and LA that, while important to the plot, slows things down…

In which case it was a good thing they brought Meyer back, because - with the exceptions of Jonathan Frakes and maybe Leonard Nimoy - he's probably the best Trek director they've ever had. He respects the material, but he's not afraid to introduce his own ideas.

Here's your blank check. I want your cast list by end of day tomorrow.

No problemo.

I also think it leans a bit too heavily on Shakespeare, especially in the climactic space battle, but I appreciated its moral ambiguities (something Nicholas Meyer had to keep fighting for) and the fact that it was a swan song of sorts for the original crew without calling too much attention to that fact.

Well, if the films are being considered based on their violent content, I would have expected Goodfellas to at least get an Honorable Mention last time.

I think that if she were to revisit the series at all, the best place might have been The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I dunno how they would have pulled it off, but as you said, she was past her Hollywood prime, and TV would have been as good a way back in as any.

"John Lithgow" and "wacky" are not exactly mutually exclusive, in my opinion.

This is true - it's probably the only Indiana Jones film that takes place predominantly on one continent. There aren't even any scenes in America.

Sure. I mean, since a big portion of the series was about attempting to prevent that war from happening (and failing), there's really nowhere to go once you hit that point in the chronology.

I should probably save any more quotes for that article, but -

She at least had the good sense to refuse T3.

One of the better Trek movies, sure.

Ripley is not really supposed to be heroic in the first film, though. She's just a working stiff who happens to end up as a kind of Final Girl. It's the structure of Aliens's narrative (basically a war movie) that forces her to become an action heroine.

I would go with this and what you said above. Kill Bill is very much an action film because the action scenes comprise a big chunk of the narrative; I mean, without them it's a good half hour shorter.

For a movie about a teenage Sherlock Holmes, it sure does play out like Sherlock Holmes and the Temple of Doom.

Well, to me every Terminator movie is simply repeating the one before it, only bigger. It worked the first time around, but by Genisys it was simply laziness they tried to hide by mangling the mythology beyond all coherence.

Did you just call *moi* a dipshit?

"Give a guy a gun and he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he's God."