I think I started having issues watching theater movies around the time they transitioned away from film and went digital. I’m not blaming the technology, just seems to fit the timeframe.

His first wife, Anne McDowell, came from a socially prominent New York family, and were Catholic, which drove Henry nuts, especially when HF II converted.

But the elongated running time allows for some quiet moments that give his movie heft, even if its freedom from CG has become grossly exaggerated on the press tour. (Digital effects were used on certain shots, albeit more subtly than usual.)

If they don’t let her perform her back catalog at the AMAs, She should spend the time she would have been singing talking about Scooter and Big Machine and why she’s not singing on national tv. That’d be more fun anyway, imo.

Plus, they had the readouts and capability for determining if Han was alive (or, perhaps more correctly, revivable) immediately after he was frozen. If freezing a living being in carbonite for hibernation was a completely off-book use of the technology, it seems unlikely they’d be able to use it as confidently as they…

“I never would’ve betrayed you.”

Still got my fingers crossed for the old lady to turn out to be Granny Goodness.

Yeah, I was wondering if I’d misread the caption and it was supposed to be “Five Years Later.” I could handwave it as Lex’s anti-Superman mania having reached a new height (which the episode tries to do), but for Lex’s line about “just” having made first contact.

I didn’t catch a mention of Gordon, but they did say someone not named Gordon was the commissioner.

I haven’t compared to confirm, but seeing how shallow the focus was in the pub flashback made me immediately suspect it was the regular alien bar and they were trying to hide it.

Honor system.

Honestly, since it’s a laser beam and thus, presumably, travels in a straight line (absent black-hole levels of gravity), I’d be more concerned about that fact that you don’t have nearly 26.2 miles of line of sight before your target is obscured by the curve of the Earth (unless your assassin is perched on top of a…

Isn’t that life, though? I can’t promise “You won’t die,” but I can promise “You won’t die today.” Don’t expect to stop Judgement Day on the infinite timescale, just stop when it’s going to happen next. And the next time, and the next time.

- If your body was 40 degrees, you’d be dead.

Didn’t this start life as a Hamilton knock-off?

The fact that the scene takes place in China was a bit of vital context missing from an article I read recently about the Chinese market having a de facto censorship power over Hollywood movies that used this bit of set-dressing as an example. Now we just have have all the other situations where the Chinese government…

Well, it’s very simple. Abominable is the movie where Zendaya is not Meechee, as opposed to Smallfoot, which is the movie where Zendaya is Meechee.

Enjoy this delightful conversation paraphrasing a real, true, high-level Nazi War Council meeting on the prospect Cossack soldiers participating in a battle with the Germans that was quickly derailed by Hitler and his generals talking about how much spiffier Cossack military uniforms were than the German ones and that…

Goddamn iOS 13 drunk autocorrect. That’s “Ron” Moore, of DS9, nuBSG, Outlander, and the upcoming For All Mankind. One of many projects he was involved in after nuBSG ended was writing a sequel to I, Robot.

I wish Rob Moore’s sequel to the Will Smith I, Robot came to something, though he’s probably better off it didn’t and he escaped becoming the Robot Guy.