Spawn? You meant “span all three books.”

I can very easily understand the White House’s disgust with those gaming clips.

Remember these tariffs are not negotiated individually, there would be something like- okay we agree to that 25% on cars if we get 4% on inflatable companion dolls- when market situations change it is time to re-examine the percentages, the big issue is the unilateral application

Iron Man 2 strongly implies that Tony (who at the time thought he was dying) always meant to give Rhodes - his best friend and confidant - the Mk 2 armor and had it equipped with an arc reactor of its own, which Rhodes hides from Hammer when the USAF begin to open the suit up for reverse engineering. Nick Fury calls…

Well, we also have Ant-Man in this universe.

He didn’t get a new heart, he got the shrapnel surrounding his heart successfully removed.

....Are we watching the same movies?

Seriously. Mako was the heart of the first movie, and was for all intents and purposes Stacker’s daughter. As much as I love John Boyega and do hope the sequel is good, bringing out rando son and marketing him as the main character is kind of frustrating.

And similarly, just because something is character development doesn’t mean that it doesn’t play phony and contrived in a movie!

While this book should be read, one should not need to have read a book to understand its movie.

This might be surprising but as a movie-watcher sometimes I need more than “because the book was that way.” (Though I hope everyone saying that offers similarly valiant defenses of, say, the ending to Spielberg’s War of the Worlds!)

Seriously. “Your Name” should have been nominated for Best Picture, last year, and same goes for “Spirited Away” in 2002. And in the past few years, the Best Animated Feature category seems to have forgotten that Japan exists, with snubs to “A Silent Voice”, “Your Name”, “When Marnie Was There”, and more.

I enjoyed it but simply didn’t think it good enough to get best picture.

If you watch the segment, he makes fun of the content before concluding that it’s likely no one really watches it, and it’s ultimately a distraction from what should really concern us about the NRA. It’s not an outsized reaction, it’s “let’s have some topical fun here and then just move on from this irrelevant garbage”

I’d wager it has to do with the lack of prominent female directors in Hollywood period. Hard enough for one woman to get into the door, let alone a duo.

I think the point may have been an allusion to the old adage about the number of assholes you meet a day.

Yes, exactly. Discovery has a huge opportunity to be an amazing show. They have a solid cast and excellent production values. All they need is good writing, and absolutely a plan for the story well in advance.

I have many many problems with Discovery, it having a serialized story structure is not one of them. Star Trek has done serialized story arcs before. I don’t know where this specific criticism may is coming from?

Right on.

What was responsible for the lousy writing though?