The story I heard at the time was the one about Renner taking over and Cruise taking a backseat as he was getting older and wanted more time for other projects. This caused some consternation because Renner had juts flopped the Bourne reboot and while I like Renner as an actor, he just doesn’t have the charisma of an…

Totally agree.

I got it, I see what you are saying.

I had a couple responses to this article which I wrote and deleted, but this sums up my thoughts best. The last few shows I went to (before kids and COVID) were all acts I enjoyed years ago doing tours in medium-sized venues for reasonable prices. I get that everyone wants to do T Swift/Beyonce/Coachella type numbers,…

Starred for it being one of their best and certainly a song I would consider telling someone to listen to if I had to introduce the band with one song. That said, their catalogue does veer into something that sounds more like traditional pop fairly often - Friday I’m In Love, In Between Days, etc. And a fair number of…

Mad Max is a series where the canon doesn’t really matter to me. It does not improve, not detract from what we are seeing each film.

My first thought after reading how soundtracks were nearly as big as the movie were “I remember playing the crap out of the Godzilla soundtrack way back when”

I would add that TG:M doesn’t really ask you to care about any of the new pilots, outside of Rooster (given his dad’s connection to Maverick). It’s Maverick’s story and the new pilots are really just support in that story. The movie is completely upfront about it. In other universes, the studios insist that the movie…

The reference to that nuts stunt of automatically pushing the album onto all iTunes users is something I completely forgot about. A quick look on Wikipedia shows that album came out in 2014, but I could have sworn it was earlier.

I haven’t thought about Spurlock in years and the last time I did was probably something to do with 30 Days. I had no idea about any of his sexual misconduct either, so that was a bit of a surprise to me in the article.

It will never ever happen, but as I get older I have come around on the idea of taxing capital usage (as we do labor) and distributing that to an ever-growing pool of people displaced by technology. Obviously there are some massive issues to address with that, but it is a start.

Top Gun: Maverick worked and someone really needs to study that one for the secret sauce. Most of the others have been kind of bad to serviceable.

I’m a Marvel fan, I’m still an MCU fan, I liked WandaVision, I like Paul Bettany... and I am 0% interested in this. And if this has nothing to do with the greater MCU, it’s almost definitely going to be a skip for me.

We really have hit a weird point where people identify with a character in a property so deeply that when the actor who played the role - in a way that fans seem to actually *like* - comments that he could have done better, some subset of the fandom takes that as a personal attack.

Great comment. My first thought was older guy explaining his recent comments about the pointlessness of intimacy coordinators or “keeping Britain British”.

This seems like such a non-story. Actor feels his performance was lacking, doesn’t criticize anyone but himself, feels need to clarify... something.

My partner and I were late to Nancy Drew and Riverdale, so we watched on streaming and then watched the last seasons live (we also watched Tom Swift, FWIW). It really is kind of sad that kind of fun programming is getting nixed and CW is turning into a bunch of cheap filler. The Blue Skyes era of USA is a good comp…

I find Deadpool a bit like Waititi’s Thor - it was great the first time and really fun and refreshing, but it lost a lot of luster the second time out. To echo that, the “let’s explain the meta-ness of what is happening” gag is quickly turning into the cinematic equivalent of SNL explaining the joke to you as you are…

Honestly, this is the best explanation I have seen.

1. Too expensive. Even McDonald’s is considering re-doing some version of a value meal because things are just too much. If they were cars, Galactic Starcruiser would be a Maserati - cool and expensive, but most people aren’t getting them. Maserati stays in business by selling top-end cars to certain clientele, but…