YOU WOULD SAY THAT, what with your palm being greased by Big Salad.
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Toward the end, the patriot filming everything sums up the entire event, muttering to himself the “no taxation without representation” of our times: “All I wanted was some steak!”
Self hate. Same as everyone else.
I don’t know ... I think maybe I’d like to see them try. There are some classic Westerns in which the hero is basically an unknowable cipher. The Reacher I know from the books is just a guy who doesn’t care about anything but coffee, a plate of eggs, his freedom, and the need to occasionally punch a bully in the…
According to him, someone got mad because he was given his steak sooner than another person ahead of him in line simply because his was cooked rare and was ready to serve sooner than another person’s well done meat.
Huh. That means I have zero recollections of the second movie, which is kind of terrifying.
No. Julian Fellowes is going to make his sympathy for the 1% propaganda no matter what. Stll, the recreation of old New York is something and in “these times” it’s nice too look at pretty things while the stakes stay low. Just remember that there are no wealthy heroes of the Gilded Age. Old money? New Money? None of…
I am a big fan of the book series (Echo Burning, Nothing to Lose, and Worth Dying For are among the best in series) and the first movie (Tom Cruise has the right personality, but the wrong build), so I am pretty amped for the TV series to truly take advantage of the books’ unique idiosyncrasies. The lead already got…
“is he wooden, or just so deadpan it barely registers?—but eventually his innate likeability takes over”
Sounds like they’ve got the character spot on.
the first was a quintessential c+ experience and the second was a quintessential c- experience.
Lee Child said that. I paraphrase, but he said that Reacher’s size makes him unstoppable, and Cruise has that unstoppability factor but in a different way.
The Reacher books (and the Spenser universe/Bosch novels) are a little like ice cream for me. I don’t usually go out of my way to consume them, but when I do, it is obscene how much I can consume in a short period of time.
The first Cruise movie is perfectly serviceable for when you are tired of heavy shit. The second…
Yeah thankfully most of us ‘80s kids grew up knowing that the Satanic Panic thing was really dumb and that D&D wasn’t a gateway to anything except fun. Lots of my friends have their kids playing D&D these days and it’s not looked upon as a bad thing anymore, which is kinda strange for those of us who have been playing…
“The American experience [with racism and bigotry] is based on skin.”
The best, of course, being “Prince Ali”.
I think one shoe they’re planning to drop is how little money the Van Rhijns actually have. The show’s been clear that they (and everyone) have less money than the Russells. But we’ve seen a lot of hints that they’re hold on what they have is actually quite tenuous.
“Ooh, everyone finally reached level 5 and got some bitchin’ new spells -- love that Fireball, Steve -- but viewership typically declines after two seasons, so ... who’s up for a Traveller series?”
Regardless!
Surprised that Let It Go never hit #1, consider how insanely omnipresent it was when it came out.