Still a ways to go before we catch up to the 20th, though.

The Ranch looks almost impossibly cheap.

The risk / try more crazy things excuse is bullshit. I'm not a fan of the show, but it's hard to imagine a riskier project to back. The simple, true reason why this show and The Get Down got canceled was because each season cost the budget of a mid-level blockbuster movie and, it seems, they weren't pulling in enough…

It's just plain not synonymous. Context matters. Average, in this context, does not mean it's similar in any meaningful way to everything else, just that it isn't, in this person's opinion, much better (or worse) than anything else. If you draw back to a high enough altitude, any show can be considered "similar" to…

Exactly. That budget (like almost every exorbitant sitcom budget) was largely a result of the cast / people involved realizing the salaries they could command after the show reached a massive, consistent audience.

"Average and forgettable" is not synonymous with "generic."

And in a very different television viewing landscape, to boot.

You might even say it makes sense8.

I feel like this is one where you buy the tickets for Nas and Hannibal (what a curious combination), and then if Lauryn actually shows / performs as well as you'd hope, then it's an extremely huge bonus.

Well, I suppose that technically, "Having a camera in places where people might be naked or expect privacy" would cover having your phone in any gym locker room ever, which is something that isn't expressly prohibited. And taking pictures or video of people without their permission is a pretty broad statement when…

I don't read comics as much as I used to, and off top I can't remember how frequent artistic discontinuity popped up or ever got to me, but it jumped out at me reading this that he has should have blood on his right knee after attacking that painter, but in the next to last panel his pants are clean, and then in that…

I'll always go to bat for Excalibur. Although it is, as Great Random mentioned, laughable in certain spots, it makes up for it with moments and scenes that are wonderful. It feels like a classical fantasy, with all of the absurdity and splendor that entails.

It's at the top of the UK box office, but it still didn't open with an impressive figure in the UK. Being #1 in a down week doesn't necessarily mean much. For a comparable, Guardians 2—which has a budget in the general range of King Arthur—opened with $16m in the UK, over 5x's what King Arthur opened with. Alien…

The Holmes movies did solid business. There may be those who slam Richie online, but I don't think his name is poison for the general movie-going public. It's not a major draw either, but it's not an immediate major detriment either.

Methinks it was a joke.

Something like this… why not just stick it back on the shelf never to be seen? Pay the artist for their labor based on whatever agreement you may have with them, but let them know this isn't up to standard for being shared with the world. It's not as if Spider-Man Homecoming is going to be in desperate need of every…

Spider-Man: Oh Shit, That Poster is Due Today?! I Mean, Um, Sure, It'll Be On Your Desk Before Lunch.

This trailer is more impressive than I expected it to be. That scene of him running through the worlds looked fun. It would be nice to think that this stands a chance of being a surprise, breakout hit, but it has a pretty steep uphill battle ahead of it. It won't have much in the way of direct escapist action flick…

Lucy made more money than anything else Besson's ever done, by a fairly substantial margin. Even adjusting for inflation, its profit margin outpaces The Fifth Element, which cost considerably more to make. It makes sense for them to market it as from the creator of Lucy.

"(the Nolan trilogy has better comedy than people remember)"