Yup, that’s why I mention the theme parks. I bet they want Stan Lee’s presence to be felt all over the place instead of simply the Marvel branding.

A lot of these stills look like they’re taken from a early 90s FMV video game like Phantasmagoria or Night Trap.

The costuming choices are so odd too, like Padme has so many outfits and they’re all incredibly details and over designed. But they also opted not to make even a single set of clone trooper armor for closeups.

They art directed every single little thing in Padme’s lakehouse but also chose not to build a whole set and…

All of those still just show that the SFX of this movie have not aged well.  Still the worst Star Wars movie to date.

I think Donna’s arc was better than people give it credit. She was a self-centered, celebrity-worshipping idiot when the Doctor found her, but as she experienced more of the universe her mind opened and she found a little humility.

I totally get that, but I like to think of it more of a course correction after some years of wobbly captainship. Bringing back a proven, experienced writer such as Davies may not be the boldest move the BBC could make, but it also shows that they DO want Doctor Who to be great and successful again. Davies would not…

I really want a Spider-Verse game but one where you get to make your *own* spider, like really go wild with the costume options, and hang out with other, more famous spiders. Shit, they could even lean into the RPG of it all and have you select dialogue and customize your quips and attitude and quip frequency. Make it…

Specifically, he’s associated closely with, and is reportedly part of, a church that has publicly condemned LGBTQ lifestyles. He’s neither severed ties with it, nor has every publicly condemned their actions.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/chris-pratt-responds-ellen-page-calling-his-church-anti-lgbtq-n970651

Jill Schoelen’s most notorious contribution is breaking Brad Pitt’s heart *hard* in favor of, like, the director of Halloween 4

That’s probably as good an explanation as any.

That’s probably as good an explanation as any.

Yep like Picard with the US immigration authorities. Star Trek was literally made to depict this stuff using allegory.

Akiva Goldsman is about as subtle as a bag of hammers going down a flight of stairs. They came sooooo close to the “problem/planet of the week” as allegory formula of TOS then faceplanted with the modern day news footage. It makes me wonder how subtle some of the topics they broached in the 60s came across to the…

Where’s the Spitter Bidet?

There’s a general sloppiness to all the new Trek. This episode still had some of that but less than the others. So better yes...it was mostly coherent and our lead was not emotionally overwrought which is a relief. Of course they still had that character. The gorn story drop was interesting but they shouldn’t just…

Was it perfect? No.

Was it so much better than basically all of the live-action nuTrek so far that it makes those shows feel worse now in retrospect? Yes, very much so.

Drag Me To Hell is underrated and full of classic Raimi horror goodness. Spider-Man 2 also has a great bloody horror scene in the hospital. I can’t imagine that in an MCU movie, but I guess I haven’t seen the new one yet.

I mean, it was basically true for The Lizard initially, as well.

Yes, Strange should have asked Peter ‘are you sure?

If only there were several points in the last 49 years where the Dems controlled the WH, Senate and House and could have codified Roe.