I don't think Jay G.'s statement is so much some indictment of 'the foreign market' as a bunch of philistines but rather a statement that anything with nuance or complexity literally doesn't translate as easily as stuff blowing up, hence the "universal language of 'spectacle'" comment.

Jai Courtney, for all those roles that Sam Worthington is too niche for.

The Rock.

It's a question of talent. Ain't nobody got any talent.

"A computer can’t flip the board when it’s going to lose, a computer
can’t look at the trivia questions beforehand and memorize the answers,
and a computer can’t reshuffle a deck of cards when nobody’s looking."
Somebody's never played on All-Madden difficulty.

"I’ve read a number of disparaging articles about your generation, in the Atlantic and Slate.com summaries. And it’s all true. Trigger warning: Fuck you!"

I haven't watched 2001 in a very long time; I'd have to rewatch to see if there's enough to have the same effect. If I ignored everything else in the Mother scenes in Alien to obsess over the CRT monitors, then it might have the same effect, but it both blends enough believable technology (like voice recognition,…

I get the point you're making with that (movies work better with a sharp focus on a small group of characters), but the Prometheus was a research vessel. It definitely would have had a larger complement than did the Nostromo.

It's not so much that I set out to judge a thirty-year-old movie by modern standards, but those things date the movie in a way that I can't help but notice. You hit it on the head by pointing out that the future setting highlights that datedness; mid-80's sensibilities don't date a movie set in the mid-80's, but…

Again, prove me wrong. Fucking. Prove. It.
You can't, but you have yet to even offer an attempt. Until then, fuck yourself. Continue fucking yourself afterward as well, but somewhere along this process of you fucking yourself, I expect to see some attempt to back up your claim.
For the record, a cursory glance at your…

"Deadwood's overarching drive was to show how civilization rises out of
chaos, which is a hugely ambitious mission statement and is far better
suited for long-form TV than a movie."
Dead on, which is a big reason why How the West Was Won is not a great Western, despite having all the raw ingredients of one.

"Erich Bachman? This is your mom. You are not my baby."

Do you think they had Jimmy O. Yang re-record that line or did they just reuse it from what was it, season 2 when Erlich was trying to evict him?

Big Head seems like one of those people who's nice just because it never occurs to him not to be. Not the worst personality trait to have, although the "never occurs to him" aspect overlaps into too many other aspects of his life.

Eh, for me there's just a bit of dated 80s-ness about Aliens. If someone were writing Aliens today, some of the details would be markedly different; I think the marines' interactions, especially the way Vasquez fits into the squad, would be different, and Reiser's corporate slimeball would still be a slimeball, but…

"Straight" has connotations beyond strictly sexual orientation; historically, referring to someone as straight has meant identifying that person as both heterosexual and cisgender. It's possible, although I'm going to add the caveat that even this isn't universally agreed upon, to be non-cisgender (transgender or…

That and everything else might possibly actually be happening in Ukraine.

FUCK KENT HRBEK

I'd actually not encountered sie/hir before now, and I have to say I would get behind that way before ze/zir or xe/xir. The z/x spellings just have too many 90s XTREME! type connotations to register seriously for me.

English has a gender-neutral third person pronoun, the problem with it is that it's also dehumanizing.