We will probably watch this; the first season was stupid, but at least it was pretty.

*falls asleep*

Please, sodomy is the least of these people’s offenses.

...in a desolate, gray and brown landscape. I could have tolerated a show with more colorful visuals, or a show where (almost) all the characters are both horribly monstrous and incredibly dull, but not both. I noped out after the end of the first season.

I still yell those words on occasion whenever someone starts talkin’ fancy.

It’s sort of astonishing that all four of the recent Apes movies have been consistently good-to-great. The criticisms here (some of which I agree with, to greater or lesser degrees) are valid, I think, but the very fact that these movies can bear that kind of criticism speaks to their quality.

And he always engages in the comments, which is great.

Aw, Not Dead Yet was cute, and reasonably funny (especially Lauren Ash’s character). My wife doesn’t follow entertainment news so now I have to tell her about it. -_-

Lord’s work, etc.

Man, the only thing I really remember about The Cell is the horse that gets sliced into bits.

Good lord, I remember that shot, specifically seeing it in an Entertainment Weekly piece about the (then-upcoming) Man of Steel.

As long as the super power is mind control, so I can make everyone believe I have awesome hair.

*Maynard sits bolt upright*

We call ourselves Nile-ists.

Let me come firmly down on the side of “fuck franchises.” I’m as guilty as anyone of paying to see the countless adaptations and sequels and requels and whatever the fuck, but I also recognize that it’s culturally toxic to just keep rehashing the same shit over and over.

I really liked Quinn in Stranger Things, but he looks like he was assembled from parts of other actors.

It’s like a 4:20 joke, but about 25% more sober.

Will Forte is someone who I always want to like a lot more than I actually do. Very little of his material actually appeals to me, but I just can’t help but root for the guy.

I can’t answer the second question, but I can answer the first one: William H. Macy.

“Tentpole” is I think the better term for that, indicating movies with big production and marketing budgets that are a major part of the studio’s release strategy for the year. A tentpole can be a bomb, of course, and a little indie can turn out to be a blockbuster.