Same. And even my 7 year-old knows the difference between “Daddy’s personal laptop” and “Daddy’s work laptop,” and can tell when I’m not working.
Same. And even my 7 year-old knows the difference between “Daddy’s personal laptop” and “Daddy’s work laptop,” and can tell when I’m not working.
This has already been pointed out downthread, but erasing their hardcore sci-fi origins is bullshit. 11 year-old me bought and devoured George Gipe’s novelization of Gremlins. And that backstory? Where they’re genetically engineered pets trapped in a spacecraft and abandoned on Earth blew my mind.
I want to see that,…
Damn, Ben. Ozempic face + that bad dye job aren’t doing you any favors.
A+ for the blipverts reference
Ah man, Inside was great. I raved about it after by saying “Imagine if at the end of Castaway, instead of getting rescued, Tom Hanks goes nuts and becomes a shaman.”
If you can, track down the opening to it. It’s brutal and arty and has a very cool stepping-over-the-camera shot I’d never seen before.
You’re skipping Grandpa’s thoughts on the OG Dragnet movie; it’s post-radio, mid-tv (it’s from 1954, halfway through the original series’ tv run), and kicks serious ass.
Eh, maybe not. I’m a white, 50 yr-old dad from Portland, OR and the thing Phil Knight is *most* known for here is his late turn to becoming a GOP bankrolling mega-donor shithead. He spent 3.5 million of his own money last fall trying to siphon Democrat votes towards a 3rd-party candidate for Governor; and when that…
I get a little misty-eyed whenever I see present-day Matt Dillon, because I think about what could’a been:
To wit, I loved that so many of the early MCU projects cast Gen X icons, even if their “sell-by” dates might have made some other studios squeamish. Robert Downey Jr, Marisa Tomei, Vincent D’Onofrio, James Spader,…
If no one else is gonna say it, let me add Twin Town. It’s Welsh, it’s fawking GREAT, and it stars a pre-fame Rhys Ifans and Dougray Scott in a bifurcated movie whose first half is a grimy, comedic take on Trainspotting and whose back half is revenge porn of the highest, highest order.
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is a slow-burn masterpiece, for sure.
He was, until footage of him as Robin Williams from the Mork & Mindy biopic accidentally leaked.
Lee Evans blew my mind when I first saw Funny People. His later American movies (Mouse Hunt, There’s Something About Mary, The Ladies Man) are funny, but not even close to what he was capable of doing.
plus the Hoechlin-Supes-on-Routh-Supes from Crisis.
Shazaam? Ok, but only if the extra “a” is for...oh, let’s say Apollo. He wasn’t just the sun god, but the god of music too. So Shazaam can play any musical instrument perfectly, because magic.
In Atom Smasher’s defense, his character started off as Infinity Inc’s Nuklon, a 7 foot-tall red-headed jewish teenager named Albert Rothstein who thought nobody would recognize him unless he did something to stand out, like shave his hair into a mohawk.
Like, the kid has ALWAYS been a weirdo.
Seriously. I mean, here he is as a young man. He was barely 89!
My favorite part of Palicki’s unsold Wonder Woman pilot is when WW is racing down an underground hallway towards a guarded door and she grabs a piece of rebar and hurls it like a javelin. It immediately impales the guard, sticking him to the door and she kicks him in the chest, so the guard and door both flatten…