It’s fucking stunning that Lena Dunham would drop a statement implying her work is on the same level as Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, and Greta Gerwig. Or perhaps not, she does seem to hold some highly unwarranted opinions about herself.

I’ll just wait for Quentin Tarantino’s Pet Rock movie.

Yeah, when will men put away childish, frivolous pursuits like video games and pursue more mature, dignified hobbies like dressing like absolute dogshit? 

Unfortunately, the only thing that would do is secure the election for Trump, since his base is far less likely to jump ship no matter what.

The reason it’s a story is because more than half of the voters might vote for that rapist criminal piece of crap.

No one is accusing the American voting public of rationality and intelligence here. 

All the talk the last week about Dems panicking made me realize you never hear about Republicans panicking. They’re like cats acting like everything’s fine no matter how much they just embarrassed themselves.

Pratt now seems to be the go-to guy for big licensed IP (Mario, Garfield, etc). Definitely not convinced about Lawrence, but there was a stretch when she was an instant box office draw in multiple genres.

I probably would have thrown Clooney and Pitt on there in place of Lawrence and Pratt, although they’re probably not still the draws I sort of perceive them as.

He literally only kills one (1, uno, singular) person in First Blood, and that’s mostly through sheer dumb luck. And not even with a gun or knife.

The bit that cemented Cruise to me as one of the finest actors around was when he swaggers into Brendan Gleeson’s office, all Madison Avenue slickness and Don Draper Charm, with the friendliest smile on his face, and then Gleeson tells him he’s not here for PR, he’s going in with the first wave.

Probably to emphasize the French-ness of the movie.  Back in the 90s,  it was the height of coolness to be watching foreign films with subtitles.  

The original title by the way is just “Nikita”, never understood why Americans needed “La femme” before.

I’ve said it before: Cruise’s best roles are the ones where Tom Cruise’s charms fail to help the character, and he has to fall back on other things. Trying and failing to avoid deployment in Edge of Tomorrow? Trapped in the chair while PSH counts down from 10 in Mission: Impossible 3? The gotcha interview in Magnolia?…

While La Femme Nikita is the better movie,  I always enjoyed Point of No Return for what it was.  It also has a stacked cast of 80s character actors

I’ve known people who have said they did not understand it was satire or that the humans are clearly fascists and I just can’t comprehend that when Doogie Houser walks into the third act dressed like an SS officer.

Yeah it’s a completely different animal from the sequels that followed. I know it gets compared to Alien/Aliens and the Rocky movies for the sequel pivot, but those mostly took what was in the original and blew it up bigger. Other than the rampage at the end of First Blood, there’s almost no connective tissue with Ramb…

It probably helped that the trailer plays the movie completely straight. There’s no hint that the film is a satire. Even within the movie it’s not until you get a couple of the propaganda clips under your belt that it becomes apparent.

The term “elevated horror” gets thrown around a lot these days, but you don’t hear much about “elevated action.”

For me Starship Troopers prefigured The Boys as a satire that flew over the heads of at least part of the audience. I know people who to this day do not understand that it is anti-militaristic and take it at face value. (Mond you, these are the same people who laughed instead of cringed at Clint Eastwood’s Korean jokes…