No real thoughts on this. That look didn’t define Leia although it was certainly memorable. It’s basically an iconic look from when Leia was essentially caught. That said, I’m sure they won’t stop selling Han in carbonite anytime soon.

I have sort of a weird slant on this. For me the problem with QI in the US is Americans do not fundamentally want to think of their entertainers as genuinely intelligent people. I think on some level, it tends to come off as threatening to the American public which is why you genuinely tend to see their tolerance for…

I think (and I hate to put it this way) Stewart knows too much to pull off Alan Davies. Stewarts penchant for getting wound up and knowing too much strikes me more along the David Mitchell vein, although I doubt we’d get any digressions about how posh he is.

QI already is crunched down. The show that is broadcast is compressed and cut from what they actually taped. The issue isn’t the 22 minutes so much as if you have a genuinely “on” panel you may be cutting great material. But I can’t pretend all minutes of a QI broadcast are great material. Some is average, some is…

I’m not really getting this. By doing things like allowing the victim’s attorney to call a press conference declaring tampering has occurred and then not actually following suit when it’s found out that’s untrue the DA hangs the police, the lab, and the chain of custody out to dry. It doesn’t matter how good his case…

People forget, but Feige and Arad were big players in those films while forming Marvel Studios and the third one was just before the MCU and entirely when the “we want these to be like the comics” people got really loud. The story we heard long before the Raimi mea culpa, was that Raimi had no intention of doing a…

It’s probably exhibit A of why Raimi should not direct for Marvel. When Raimi is left to his own devices, he’s fine. When he starts having to shoehorn in the story elements someone else wants him to include, he starts having problems.

I think in the end, you’re sort of forcing people to just say things like “you’re wrong.” I don’t like 2001. There I said it. I get it. It’s pretty. It’s not really that deep. It’s something critics tend to talk to themselves about and agree on which makes them feel good. It’s certainly not my favorite Kubrick film.…

No, and I’d wager if it were 2005 you’d have been just fine being that way. This is a very recent phenomenon ironically not entirely supported by the films actually being released (Phase 2 had some darker films in it but nothing I would actually call grimdark and DC contributed exactly 1 film to that mix). This sort…

Umm... not to be that guy, but the music works because those are the themes to the original trilogy including Han and Leia’s theme and the Force theme (which I always think of as Luke’s, but that’s just me).

That makes sense. Sometimes that’s the problem with page to screen as relevant bits get taken out. Honestly Watney made sense to me even in the film, but in the context of this conversation he did seem a bit superpowered for his environment which you could contrast with Apollo 13, a film high in its naturalism where…

There’s nothing wrong with that. But it is wrong to imply that pro wrestling is a comic book thing when it is in fact comic books borrowing from pro wrestling. That frame is pro wrestling being incorporated into the action film genre. Pro Wrestling (or folk wrestling) has been around since before 1900 moving pictures…

Why would someone look at that and see comic book rather than the actual artform it’s cribbed from, Professional Wrestling?

Well that makes sense because his becoming “the best” is the Groundhog Day premise which is basically his “cheat” forces him to earn everything he eventually knows. So if you want to see him get beat up, well you get all that you want and more.

There is a certain point, where if you define down “superhero” to the heightened reality, inhuman skill, or luck seen in modern film, I’m not sure there are many if any action films that cannot be considered superhero films.

I’m well aware of the term. The problem with it is, it doesn’t really create a visceral reaction against the person doing the shaming. A lot of people think “public shaming” is a useful tool. So saying “I’m being publicly shamed” is about as useful for currying sympathy as you might expect.

I think it gets used because honestly there isn’t a culturally accepted phrase for what happens now. I’m not sure if you’d call it shamed or outraged, but having something that you’ve said brought out by an extremely vested group of people to make sure the story never goes away and drowns out whatever you’re doing is…

Yes and no. If you take into account that the censorship issue was in fact the hill the Wayans clan chose to die on (which they did), that was a large part of the death of the show. The problem was, they were the creative force behind that show and they surrounded themselves with what turned out to be an amazing cast…

That’s just the Jezebel comentariat. I sort of expected it to dogpile in one direction or another but once the course was set... Honestly, I’d be curious if it’s a show that actually managed to pull off male characters I actually identify with. I haven’t watched sitcoms in years because they seem to be built off a…

Not sure how I feel about this. The whole perk “tree” thing tends to be pretty in vogue these days, but part of the fun of Fallout for me was always creating oddball characters and part of that was possible because although there were base requirements, you weren’t necessarily locked in to a tree that you had to keep…