Sessions would order them to roll back their reforms.

I didn't get that either. A role-playing joke, perhaps? If the subject of the joke was Trump I would just assume he literally doesn't know the definition, but with Ailes it's harder to parse.

Let him play a few rounds at Old Faithful. He falls in, two birds…

Something that needs to be drilled into conservative voters' heads: "Our country is not a Papa John's. Repeat after me, 'Our country is not a Papa John's.'"

Ha, I'm actually something of a BvS apologist, so I differ on that viewpoint. But in general I agree with your point.

Elmore Leonard occasionally had a similar issue, where he became infatuated with the protagonist's "coolness" to the point where it felt masturbatory. I jumped off Clancy's work for other reasons—the books were becoming repetitive and overlong—but at the bare minimum The Hunt for Red October is still a great read.

I had the same issue with Pacific Rim, and more recently, Rogue One, where the majority of the action scenes took place in the rain and the dark. Oddly enough, BvS's climax worked for me, because in spite of the nighttime setting it was still visually coherent.

Kiefer is pretty damn good in this show. Also, he's in Dark City. So I'm afraid it's your assertion that's terrible.

If I'm remembering right, he slowly killed off the chain of command over the course of several books, until eventually Jack Ryan—who started the series as a CIA analyst - became POTUS. I don't think I got that far into the series, but definitely seemed like a jumping the shark moment.

Agreed. They're especially disappointing when employed in otherwise excellent movies, like Winter Soldier, which kind of went on autopilot for the last 25 minutes or so, with the big explodey climax and the ending that didn't really offer much resolution. I feel like most of these big budget blockbusters are almost…

Not a beam, no, but isn't the city being destroyed by a bunch of shit happening in the sky? The villain didn't cross over from the dark realm in person, I don't think.

It's in a lot of action movies in general, I feel like. Definitely preferable to the abandoned warehouse fight, though, which seems like a sign of budgetary constraints more than a creative decision. (Exception: T2.)

Does that contradict what Ignatiy referred to in the review, though? Seems like it fits in the "big weird mysterious destructive sky-happening" category.

I like that its cookie-cutter aspect is actually acknowledged in the review, though, as opposed to the first one which was praised for its uniqueness despite the plot feeling like an MCU Mad Libs.

Honestly, I don't know. It seemed like everything was being swallowed by a big hole in the sky during the climax. I could be misremembering.

Dr. Strange kind of does, doesn't it?

I really don't understand how so many on the left are up in arms about this. Booting a speaker from their engagement at a college campus is not a violation of the speaker's 1st amendment rights. No one is entitled to a public platform for their views. That's not fascism or censorship. It's common sense.

The department that takes the calls is a part of ICE. They apparently make recommendations to the "victims" on how to get help, and also use the tips to learn the whereabouts of possible undocumented citizens, whom are then presumably dragged out of their homes and taken to detention centers. Besides that, it's…

It's a hell of a lot less strained than Cruz's EL CHAPO bill (Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order).

I tweeted earlier that we should take this hotline seriously along with a gif of the White House exploding from Independence Day. I'm worried I'm on a list now.