I'm also wondering where Blade Runner and Ex Machina are. They're so of this troperiod they're maybe the best explanation of how creepy it can be.

I never saw STC as being terribly influenced by Andre, but to be fair, Demme did go on to direct those two in The Master Builder.

He was a local fixture in Westchester and would often host screenings of movies he liked at the Burns Film Center in Pleasantville. Was looking forward to see him talk about Point Break.

Avengers 4.0: You Can (Not) Reboot

Oh… boy. This could be very bad.

So basically, Heinlen fascists. The type of fascists that Verhoven saw through as bullshit for "Starship Troopers".

There's a big difference between saying Cap was brainwashed against his will into being a Nazi and saying Cap has been a super-secret double-probation Nazi all along. All of the nonsense with the cosmic cube is just a fig leaf to provide plausible deniability for a story that's on all kinds of shaky ground, insiting…

Nick Gillard deserves more praise too. The choreography of the fights in those movies take a lot of shit, but they're never boring. Wish I could say the same about most other big Hollywood action stuff now.

Wow, not even a disparaging mention of The Phantom Menace in the post script? Granted, it's not as pure blooded an action flick as the others in this series, but damn if I doesn't have the best swordfight onscreen since the days of top shelf chambra. Still, I suppose it's more on the sci fi adventure side of things.

For me it's as simple as this— I'm allergic to cheese, and Pizza Hut (& Domino's) is still the only place I know that can make a decent pizza without cheese, where the sauce is actually meant to be tasted. Every other place I know just makes cheese delivery things.

All the more reason!

What about Derek Jacobi? I'm sure he'd be willing.

Is it just me or does this seem to be written by someone with no grounding in Shinkai's previous work?

Odd how long it takes sometimes. How many years did it take for Attack on Titan to come back?

Sounds about right. The whole "let's reverse the big incredible change but bury the lede and toss away Jerry" feels like part 2 of a finale more than a season opener.

Am I the only one who thinks maybe they've been sitting on this episode since last season? It could've easily played as a finale to last year.

Correction— the United States does exist in the other versions of GITS. There's plenty of friction between the US and Japan in Stand Alone Complex, for instance. A US rep is involved in the Oshii film, as that's where the Puppet Master was developed. And hell, the Soviet Union exists in Shirow's original manga.
So no.…

I don't necessarily mean doomed to die, but depending on the season Buffy orbits that star too sometimes.

Hm, no mention of X Men? I would've though Dark Phoenix was basically the Rosette Stone for the way Whedon writes insanely powerful and therefore doomed women.

Maybe I wasn't watching/listening close enough, but I figured Dar was basically saying to Quinn that he never forced him to kill anyone, be an assassin etc, and was using the vaguely sexual language to twist the knife. I mean, if they want us to believe Dar abused him, the show has really lost one of its most morally…