First two episodes anyway, this show is off to a better start than anything I’ve seen from Star Wars in the Disney era and they flew by in a blast. Love the lead(s), love the cool little multitool droid, like the mildly tweaked new setting, love how the action is already perfectly amazing martial arts stuff only…

I want to see someone be refreshingly dishonest about being a nepo baby. “I got that role on my own merits! I defeated 78 other auditioners in single combat! I’ve been using Chalamet’s head as a hood ornament for six months and nobody’s noticed!”

Is this based on a comic called Shrapnel? Hillary Swank was attached to an adaptation of that one for a long time.

I thought so too, and seeing him as a de-aged digital homunculus only made me feel more certain

I can’t wait to eat that monkey. And such large portions!

Hammond wanted Jurassic Park to be affordable!

I’m really glad this all happened in the 2020's instead of when I was a kid because I would’ve absolutely died of FOMO. As an adult I had a little thrill of excitement around the concept but mostly just thought “That’s stupid expensive and I bet it isn’t going to work.”

Get ‘em, ScarJo! Flay them!

Turning Red was yesterday?

I have seen few movies that improved as much as this just by watching it in a proper aspect ratio instead of VHS pan-n-scan. This and Lifeforce. (and probably Lawrence Of Arabia, if I ever get around to it.)

I don’t think there’s any reference to nuclear war in TRW - Thunderdome makes it explicit, but TRW was more regular war and widespread collapse.

I didn’t bother with season 2 because I’d heard they turned down the sexy. You’re saying it goes further down here?

I don’t get how something as anodyne as this article - whose premise is that Episode I is extremely George Lucas, which I thought we all agreed on - could be construed as rage bait. I really don’t get how people can still be rage-baited with Episode I after 25 years. That’s enough time for a human to go from nothing…

“Fuck off with this” -Glen Benton, probably

what the fuck is X Max

If the tires are filled with anything other than official Tesla-branded nitrogen, it voids the warranty! (I dunno, probably)

Working in an environment where co-workers play loud music of their own choosing, a lot, has strangely made me more Nickelback-tolerant.

“Stunt people really are that cool; cooler than actors, to be sure. So, the movie all but asks, why not just watch them actually be awesome, without all this need to play pretend?”

Riddick as a superpowered prophecied space messiah is generally my least favourite Riddick, but after 20 years I figure I kinda want to see where they’re going with it.

You’re wrong, and you’re also right. They tried splitting the third and last book into two movies as was the style at the time and never made the fourth movie, the part 2. There is a fourth book, but it’s a collection of (I think prequel?) shorts and I doubt there was much of an intention of adapting any of it.