Plus where they started the race.

I think a lot of people believe that commercial availability = regulated, tested and safe. Surely they wouldn’t let this guy take people two miles down if the sub wasn’t fully vetted, right? Throw in a few safely completed runs, with the company’s CEO on board, and there you go.

Way too many rom-coms use the “simply resolved misunderstanding” obstacle to the leads getting together, taking an hour of screen time for something that frequently could be resolved in 30 seconds. And too frequently the comedy is broad slapstick as opposed to actually writing clever dialogue. Rom-coms are like any…

People stood in line to buy tuckets to the movies the fucking trailer was premiering at, which IIRC first started showing up about six months before the movie, so yeah it was about as hyped at it gets.  I saw the trailer a bit later and just the Star Wars theme made the hair on my arms stand up.  I’ve never been so…

I know one of the producers (actually talked to him yesterday) and when he told me last year they were working on this he was a bit surprised I was familiar with it. Long way of saying I expect you’re right. To the extent that some Gen Xers like me have some positive recollection of the show that’s great, but they’re…

It’s wild to me that Magnum, Rockford Files, Fall Guy and similar shows don’t get more basic cable exposure.  All highly entertaining and the episodes are self-contained. 

TJ Hooker was Shatner riding car hoods.

Lee Majors and Heather Thomas both have brief cameos, from what I understand (haven’t seen it yet myself). But I’d venture anyone younger than I am (Gen X) has no idea who they are.

Longer wait periods between theatrical and streaming releases, I guess. Like you use to get with VHS releases, which became big deals in their own right because there was a gap between when you could access them.

The entire market for film distribution/release has gotten so convoluted it’s hard to keep track, especially since the studios and streamers all seem to do things a little differently.  I always assume that by the time I get motivated to go to see something in theaters it will be on streaming.

Plus it’s one thing to reboot or otherwise revisit movies that were actually good the first time around.  The last of these came out like five years ago and the series is not fondly remembered.  

I’ll give them truth in advertising if little else. It’s no Neverending Story.

For a novel that thick it was also very specific, in terms of time and place. At 750 pages that’s a pretty big ask for someone who doesn’t have a specific interest.  Also, the ending was full-on weird.

It’s been a few years since I read it but IIRC a big part of the problem was de Palma got hung up on a handful of hugely expensive setpieces / shots that ate up disproportionate amounts of the budget.  Well, that and casting Tom Hanks as a puddle-deep egomaniac.

Incrementalism is key.  When people try to shave 10 years at a pop it never turns out well.

Devil’s Candy was mostly fun for dispelling the assumption that studios are run by adults who know what they’re doing.  Just a complete mess from start to finish.

Yeah that was pretty much the point, wasn’t it?  Don’t screw with weird stuff in creepy basements.

Dammit I can’t stop watching that.

1. Anything from the Cabin in the Woods basement, of course.

Yeah but then you’d be ahead of like 99% of the population in that you’d understand the rules to Parcheesi. Worth it.