I don’t know I liked seeing Metropolis getting messed up, so often with fights among super powered beings there seems to be little area damage when in reality shit would get wrecked.

MoS had one good thing in it: the first fight when Zod and his group arrive in Kansas. That was the coolest portrayal of what Kryptonians would actually look like fighting put to film.

I hadn’t intended to see this in theaters, so wasn’t worried about spoilers, and having read them, well, that’s something. I won’t spoil anything here obviously, but it sounds like a movie that went through A LOT of changes throughout production and reshoots, not shockingly. The average viewer might not notice it all…

I think Blood Meridian is McCarthy’s most impressive work just based on the density of themes and the amazing prose. It feels almost like a religious fable.  It’s also bleak as hell and often conjures scenes of gut-wrenching violence. It’s not an easy read. The Road is my favorite McCarthy novel. It doesn’t have the…

Start with The Road. It’s a quick read, it’s not a western really, it’s beautiful, and while depressing, it’s also quite hopeful in a lot of ways. It’s also a good intro into McCarthy’s style of prose. DO NOT start with Blood Meridian lol. It’s arguably the most violent and intensely bleak Western ever written. In…

“I wouldn’t call them paid voters,”

Federal employment laws don’t allow for that level of deep dive into someone’s life outside of federal security clearances. You can’t even consent to that in the private sector. An employer can look at publicly available material, like social media posts, and can contact past employers without the potential employees…

While that is a primary reason, there’s another obvious reason: what Killa has mentioned is a security clearance level of background checking. No actor would ever consent to that. I have a friend who works at Electric Boat building nuclear subs. For a promotion he had to get TS clearance. That involved the FBI…

Movie studios aren’t going to do full-on background checks on actors as though they are getting a government security clearance. Producers and directors will often reach out to people who have worked on other films with an actor, in a informal manner, but beyond that they’re going to decide to hire based on the actors…

I just youtubed some live 1975 songs, because I’ve never heard of this guy, or his band, and I hope to never hear his music again. 

I just youtubed some live 1975 songs, because I’ve never heard of this guy, or his band, and I hope to never hear his music again. 

I don’t know who Matty Healy is. 

Does what exactly? The Watchmen show was better than anything Moore ever wrote. Moore is a curmudgeonly old bastard, and I can’t blame him when it comes to the many horrible adaptations of his work made it to film, but the HBO Watchmen isn’t one of them. The writers room for Watchmen was predominantly Black writers…

How is a fillet knife “a strange an unique weapon?” The fuck? What world do you live in? Not only are they common in any set of knives you might buy but they’re ubiquitous in restaurants.

He wasn’t head chef. This article is, not shockingly, inaccurate. He was a “former chef de partie,” which is a line cook. The lowest of the cooks in a restaurant. He worked at the restaurant for two separate stints, less than a year each, the last in 2020. He’s been arrested multiple times since 2015, including other…

Not that it excuses anything, but Lindelof is surprisingly candid in the excerpt from the book on Vanity Fair. He says he doesn’t recall ever saying, “He called me a racist, so I fired his ass,” but he readily admits to contributing a toxic, sexist and racist work environment that “hurt” the cast and crew and caused…

His take on British and Australian actors is (not shockingly) mind-numbingly stupid. That’s putting aside obvious things like having Robbie play Sharon Tate in one of his own movies. Though, he did not give her a “voice” so maybe he sees that as not a contradiction. This particularly is stupid:

Eh, it could be easily be adaptable. Just in the recent King adaptions, you have The Outsider which has graphic depictions of dead children. Having not seen the film obviously, and just going by plot descriptions in reviews, it sounds like it implies “The Boogeyman” is a real thing, when in the story it’s clear that…

The origins in his writings chronologically went Melkor (then called Melko) made orcs out of stone before the awakening of Elves. Then it was that Melkor made them out of stone in a direct mockery of the Elves after their awakening. Then by the time Christopher Tolkien was helping to compile all these early stories…

Wow does that sound like the biggest pile of pretentious crap.