Slightly different note: there hasn’t been a significant action/adventure tentpole that was actually filmed in San Francisco in a long time. While I have no idea if the rest of the film is going to meet my suspicions of being a disaster, the papers out there have at least mentioned this might break the former streak.

Yep. Omar was legendary and much more widely watched, but Chalky was not only equally iconic but brutally realistic. Scorsese pulled no punches, nor did Williams.

I agree on the generic fantasy nature of the trailer. Had to watch it twice to even figure out basic characters; I mistook Siuan for Morgase, for instance, until I realized the groups of Aes Sedai in Ajah colors meant we were in the White Tower. Slightly hard to write why without spoilers, but here goes.

But as for the Event itself and the grief of the victims’ families, it has always been the domain of the worst kitsch

They did such a great job playing up her looks on Night Court but being very clever and funny rather than creepy about it, and she was a great sport for it too.

that no one seems to have had a clear and coherent idea or plan what they wanted to say or do with a sequel trilogy

Because the first hour and forty minutes of the film is a generally lousy and unoriginal rehash of various heist movies with paper thin characters and mediocre plot, and it’s not at all surprising you fall asleep to that part routinely.

Also will fit with the Coast Guard regional command for the Great Lakes area being headquartered a 10 minute or so walk away from the stadium - and their motto just happens to be ‘Guardians of the Great Lakes’.

This is a very strange piece, with not the least of the weirdness being that you interviewed a realtor for relationship advice.

I think a good part of it has to do with where the show was at the time as well as the followup actors were as comps.

In about 5 seconds of thinking, it hit me that it’s actually appropriate to isolate a bunch of women who would participate in something like this with a bunch of men who have the personalities of the title.

I thought this peaked in about 2007 or so and - given almost all women are aware and laugh at the techniques nowadays - has been relegated to one of the weirdest trends of the naughts.

MLK/FBI is an essential watch if you’re interested in learning about the actual history of the civil rights movement rather than a conveniently edited one.

Yep, one of my thoughts on watching was that the original pitch probably was something relatively simple, like ‘hero gets transported forward in time to fight against aliens alongside his daughter.’ It’s simple and even relatively original.

Realistically, it borrows from about half a dozen movies and books, but as one review put it, they threw it in a blender and out came grey goop.

I watched it tonight and thought it was dreadful, fast forwarding through large parts with the subtitles on so I could somewhat keep up with the theoretical plot. The military concept was particularly terrible - about the only thing worthwhile about it was providing another meta of civilian writers who genuinely don’t…

Thanks for reading and reviewing this so I don’t have to do the former.

This is a headspinning analysis. You almost completely leave out the Sienna Miller at-home storyline, which is the one redeeming part of the movie for most of us who dealt with the vast disconnect between civilians and military over the last 20 years (or in many cases, longer.)

What jumped out of that for me is that the judge had to slow her down twice. Given the well publicized bipolar diagnosis along with the gushing and often incoherent statement, the combination does not exactly inspire confidence that she’s currently being treated effectively, especially with the comment about being…

CinemaTyler put out a great Youtube series late last year on the filming of Apocalypse Now, and one episode is entirely devoted to breaking down that whole scene. Apparently Ford had either just hopped off the plane and was exhausted or just nervous, and Coppola realized he had a chance to duplicate the basis for one…