It may have been the previous episode, but Danny saying something like, "The four of us showing up at the same time to fight an evil corporation? It's pretty obvious, [isnt it?]" really seems directed at the show's writing.

They need to pose for an imitation of that Stephen Colbert/Jordan Carlos photo.

That was rather the point. I think the scene was a bit clumsy, but Luke follows up the privilege comment by pointing out that Danny has other ways of handling these situations, going high and more to the source, and Danny realizes that much is true, thus him marching in as such.

I too love to fantasize about screaming at servers over aspects of the restaurant they don't control.

Waiiiiit.

It's totally normal to want to scream at waiters when their restaurant has a kid's menu.

I vote more than most people, and I'm pretty engaged. What I won't be voting for is this largely two way contest between the worst people in the world. I don't see the point. Corruption is gonna go through the roof either way.

At this point I'm more than happy to sit the hell out of the presidential election, which is a flaming Viking boat full of rotten ham and SIDS, and concentrate on the downballot elections.

The last third of this movie was fantastic. The first two thirds made me wonder why I turn my phone off inside a theater. Not that it was awful, but it was just so… latter day Seth Rogan. By which I mean it had a great concept, but blared its theme so loudly that you knew where it was going instantly, and the path…

I think maybe I would have liked this finale better (though overall I'm loosely positive about the series,) if the destruction of Annville had more of a connection to anything else. I anticipated that it was probably happening, but I was also thinking one of two scenarios would unfold;

I read some of the comics (it took me a while, but I just lost interest somewhere along the way,) and my opinion of the show has been largely the same; enjoying it, but I could leave it right now and not miss it.

It looked almost completely CG to me for some reason, then.

Aside from the soundtrack (which was amazingly done,) I didn't really feel all that nostalgiac watching this. In fact, parts of it were a lot more real 80s than film 80s. Maybe the fact that I wasn't at all into horror growing up lends to that.

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Unrelated, I just keep getting the invites and responded to your latest comment.

Need you to take me off this snubbie invite list.

Not in Hollywood years, sadly.

I think Modine is perfect, given that he's the definition of the banality of evil here. The character seems aware of his own wickedness, but isn't playing to that archetype.

Smoking on camera is often a logistical nightmare, when you do two, five, or twenty takes, then factor in extra angles that are shot later. Actually smoking on camera is an intimidating task to more than one actor that I've known, because if you want utter continuity, they'll smoke a lot more than they usually do for…

It's an interesting thread not for its narrative, but because it's simultaneously true to the (somewhat heightened reality) of the era while simultaneously avoiding making him a cartoonish third point on the love triangle, as many 80s movies were fond of doing. There are points where you can dig the guy, but he's also…