If they actually managed to cast Robert Redford as Robert Redford, that would make me a tiny bit interested in watching this, but his imdb page suggests that alas, no.

I’m sorry, but this screams “unrelated script treatment given a hasty makeover when we unexpectedly landed the license to the Watchmen characters.”  That plus the Lindelof factor: hard pass.

Sadly if she did it any time in the last few years, you missed the cherry on the subway: “completely burned out 35-story office building immediately across from city hall that sat vacant and crumbling for a decade as various people sued each other to try to get out of paying for the demolition and cleanup.”

Harsh, but fair.

They managed to burn down half a block in Hamilton Heights and kill at least one person in the making of this movie, so I kinda hope it tanks Norton’s career:

Lethem’s career would be a cautionary tale if there were anything to point to about what the fuck happened to him. His first few novels were just consistently amazing, not least in that they did not resemble each other at all — it’s frankly bizarre to think that the same guy who wrote Motherless Brooklyn also wrote an…

Strong agree. The Phantom Menace was a lousy film, but it ruined a story that literally nobody was clamoring to hear: what were Darth Vader’s kindergarden years like?

Counterargument: there is exactly one kinda-okay Star Wars prequel, and it’s Rogue One.

Thing is, in 1999 audiences left theaters satisfied, almost giddy, with Episode 1.

Respectfully I think that the issues with getting sane gun laws passed in this country exist on a somewhat different level than “people being silly on twitter”

Yes, exactly this.  The movie made some weird calls and never quite pulled together, but Mos Def -- who often seems to have been beamed in from a different and somewhat odd galaxy in real life -- was an inspired choice for Ford.

Underneath the hilarious gags and delightfully whimsical fancies, the the soul of the H2G2 trilogy is their wry, quintessentially British fatalism

I’m seriously excited by this but also a little sad: Snipes is very much still alive, still in shape and from all accounts was interested in reprising the role.

I did not quite realize how tiny Kristen Bell is.

You had me at “Dafne Keen”.  I can’t imagine more perfect casting.

Also one of the most awkward sequences of full frontal male nudity ever committed to film. I suspect that multiple Andean coca forests were denuded in the making of The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Nit: MCU Peter Parker goes to “Midtown School of Science and Technology”. It is, of course, fictional, but Stan Lee reputedly based it on Forest Hills HS in Queens, which is a public school, and in the comics it’s always been public. The MCU version is pretty clearly also modeled on Bronx Science, which is a public…

Aggravating that there’s no spoiler space for this one, so I’m going to try to be as coy as possible:

Cornell’s death prompted a ton of tribute covers from a lot of terrible, terrible bands and singers; it’s nice to get one from someone worthy of touching his hem.

So... they gonna cover the threesome with James Dean and Paul Newman or nah?