Damn you, I had managed to forget about that.

I think it makes a certain amount of sense if you look at both Burton and Depp’s filmographies: they were both still wildly popular at that point, and specifically their previous collaboration had been Sweeney Todd which was reasonably well received and moreover had the built-in advantage of being Sweeney Todd: I’m…

Well, one of the side-effects of Ellison’s lawsuit is that neither James Cameron nor anyone else in Hollywood will ever again talk honestly about what their influences were. Cameron was unwise enough to mention in an early interview that he’d had Ellison’s Outer Limits episodes somewhat in mind when writing The…

In fact she channeled it so well that I spent the first half of the movie thinking “wait, did they digitally de-age Jeanette Goldstein?”

A lot of this comes down to the fact that Avatar was the film Cameron got to make when nobody could successfully tell him “no” about anything at all, so everything that he’d been dying to get into a movie since his career started out got put into it.

You were the person demanding, a mere two posts ago in this thread, “a summer blockbuster release.” You do realize that those are profitable for theaters because they sell out, right?

Well, between this and the unlamented death of April Fools Day, I can’t say that the pandemic didn’t do anything positive.

I can’t imagine why anyone would have had issues with the idea of a packed theater this summer. It’s a real mystery. Clearly nothing at all of import has changed since then and you have discovered a great hypocrisy for which we should all be duly embarrassed.

Yeah, the direction was frankly bad: Sam and Bucky ran out of their meeting with Karli to fly/run halfway across the city to...what may as well have been the same building.

But wait: some scientist somewhere had success with Isaiah, years ago. So the super soldier serum has already been re-created: sometime around the Korean War or Viet Name war or something.

This episode was the first one to directly address that, which is a little nuts. The idea is that snap-depopulated countries were suddenly welcoming refugees who they were previously trying to keep out (because it turns out that losing 50% of your population is very, very bad on just about every possible scale), but…

All in favor of getting rid of all of them!  Guillotines are cheap!

I mean, if you take the script for Raiders at its face value, the relationship between Indy and Marion is already Fleabag-dark, they just don’t spend a lot of time talking about it.

In all seriousness, DMX had been an in-and-out-of-rehab-and-hospitals addict for most of his career. I’m personally sympathetic to the notion that people should be allowed and in some cases encouraged to explore the effects of different drugs during their life (free shout-out to the crazy kids at erowid.org), but I’ve…

As an American, few things bring a tear to my eye faster than seeing a royal die of natural causes.  Oh well, better luck next time.

Bernini was not of this earth.

You can’t fool me.  That’s an Adipose in a funny hat!

AMEN. I was honestly kinda not feeling the entire series but when the camera panned across Baltimore I realized where they had to be going and went from zero to stoked in about ten seconds.  And Carl Lumbly absolutely brought it. 

You had me at “Peter Capaldi snarkily narrating things.”  Here’s hoping his entree into superhero cinema works out a little better than poor Chris Eccleston’s.

That’s what makes it a brilliant gag -- it absolutely works both ways.