Well, cars are objectively superior to every non-dinosaur toy in Toy Story to begin with. And I wonder if the overhead for their toys is also better compared to the more complex TS ones.

I don’t think Cars is quite as bad as it’s reputation. Sure it’s second tier Pixar, but until, well Cars 2, even second tier Pixar movies were pretty damned good. I think it gets marked down because of Mater being voiced by Larry The Cable Guy. The character is bog standard slightly dumb Disney side kick character,…

I don’t quite get the critical rap against Cars (Cars 2, much more understandable). It’s far from Pixar’s best, but there’s nothing really wrong with the film. It hits all the right story, emotional and humor beats without any real weak scenes. The more you think about it, the weirder the philosophical implications of…

I myself am a horror fan, and I’ve heard similar logic for that, as well as why people enjoy rollercoasters and spicy food. The knowledge that it’s not “real” makes it safe to experience something like it, and at the end you’re perfectly alright.

After watching a Forensic Files, I now make sure to ALWAYS lock my door when I do my laundry in my apartment complex (a good habit anyways but I wasn’t always so rigid about it). I’m not saying every woman consumes true crime media to get helpful hints on not getting murdered/raped/assaulted but there is an element of…

I feel like Dan really missed the opportunity to tell the LW that her boyfriend’s therapist might just be terrible and that he should consider firing her. I literally cannot think of any real justification for a therapist to tell a client they are just bad at sex. Even if it were a legitimate thing to say, how the hell…

Sorry, I was talking about the third party therapist. “Just accept you’re bad at sex” Really??

100%.  I can’t think of even one sexual act that is universally liked or appreciated.  People are just too all over the map.

Also, “good” or “bad” at sex becomes practically meaningless considering how wide-ranging people’s preferences can be. There’s an article on Lifehacker in which the (female) author says, in so many words, that no woman likes having their breasts squeezed. I’ve been with more than one woman who’ll call bullshit on that.

I feel like the only real way to be “bad at sex” is to be a selfish lover(assuming your partner isn’t into that). To many believe sex is some sort of instinctual thing and your skills never change but like any skill practice is important. Also like any skill, sometimes you fail.

That’s why the ending is so frustrating, because it seems to endorse his problematic Robin fixation, instead of having him evolve and move on like people do in real life, mostly.

If you think about it, in the 70's lots of great movie stars gave character actor-like performances because the movies were character studies instead of sweeping narratives. The main character doesn’t seem to be in any control the way a movie star usually is in a classically-styled movie. Popeye Doyle, R.P. McMurphy,…

I think general consensus is that everyone in this show is terrible except for Marshall

Schwarzenegger usually got his wife/girlfiend/daughter back intact also. Maybe he put it in his contracts.  Meanwhile you get too close to Liam Neeson and it’s all over for you.

Mel Gibson is a Seagal guy.

“I went to the danger zone. Gonna take it right into the danger zone.”

Anyway, as pretty and (I suppose for some) primally stirring this movie might be, the last time I watched it I couldn’t get past that it’s essentially about a bunch of guys fighting over a good performance evaluation at work.

I miss the days when blockbuster movies routinely came with soundtracks of original pop songs. So many indelible/cheesy moments as a result, and Top Gun certainly has one of the better 1980s soundtracks.

The only thing weirder than letting Cruise take that shower was what she actually did - not letting him take the shower, then sitting down and having dinner with a smelly, sandy, dirty, sweaty, gross, Tom Cruise.

Nice call on TG being entry level soft porn. Top Gun was pretty much shiny-magazine-covered patriotism back in the 80's, a fluffy call for Reagan’s call to military enlistment.