I think the audience for this show is somewhat unevenly divided between “people who were curious what a successful adaption of Good Omens to the screen might look like” and “people who really wanted Neil Gaiman to come over and read the book to them” and there’s going to be close to zero agreement between the two…

No lie! Like, I think, every other human being on earth I walked into the first one with sub-zero expectations, and walked out being amazed at how much fun I’d had.

Oh god.  The Pirates sequels. Right up there with “The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions” in terms of an amazing opening act instantly hitting the wall of diminishing returns at 100mph.

In this thread I learn that their are people who watched GLOW and thought that Bash and Florian were just friends and... it’s a little early to start drinking but here I go...

“How do we adapt a book that’s famous for discursive humor delivered in the narrative voice?”

Years belatedly I agree in general, but... Laura/X23 wasn’t supposed to be genetically Latin America / mestizo? The video infodump seemed pretty clear that Mexican women carried the babies, but that the embryos were created from scratch for the project and weren’t using their birth mother’s DNA: thus the fact that…

Ugh, don’t remind me. I’ve attempted to watch at least 2 or 3 of the Discworld movies and I’ve literally never made it further than 20 minutes into any of them. (I think Hoggfather was the record-holder for bailing: I barely made it past the opening exposition dump.) Each in their own way, they’re a master class in…

We could also, collectively, maybe admit that Gaiman is — at absolute best -- a middling screenwriter. Whether doing original scripts or adapting his own material, he’s never once risen about the level of “clangingly obvious”.  It’s just not his medium and every caveat in this review echos every worry I had about his…

LOL someone thinks floppy sales matter.

I’m just still genuinely curious what motivated D&D to do two shortened seasons.

Honest answer: the city gives, the city takes away. If you can manage to get yourself a tolerable housing situation (tricky but not impossible), in exchange for some aggravations you get:

Brotherhood of the Wolf is one of the most gleefully insane films ever made, and I wish more people had seen it. I’m beyond giddy that Stahelski picked Dacascos to be in this film: he deserved a much better career than he eventually got.

You’re not wrong about the general direction of federal tax dollars, but let’s be fair: NYC/NYS manages to waste an ungodly amount of money right here in our own backyard. Behold, for example, the Second Avenue Subway, which at $1.1 BILLION GODDAMN DOLLARS PER STATION for a 4-station spur line, holds the undisputed…

Feels like an improvement, TBH.

Well, that looks completely awful.

I think if you want to take that question seriously, you first have to deal with the opposite one, which is “what are the odds that enough professional farmers survived the Snap to keep our food system working well enough that the survivors don’t die of starvation 6-12 months later?” Thanos didn’t promise to kill 50%…

That felt like a frankly overdue apology for not putting her in armor at the end of IM3.

Counterpoint: cutting out just before the first two “Origins” films was probably a pretty good move all around.

“The Winter Soldier [doesn’t] boast the scariest villain”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: other MCU movies were fun, some of them were exhilarating, some of them were funny, but Winter Soldier was the first one that actually kicked ass.