I bet he did that to avoid people projecting simplistic, modern day politics on it. Especially if he was interesting in talking more about the function of a free press in a democracy. If he made it Texas and Florida, or California and New York, then the President would automatically be the other side and people would g…

It’s a demonstration of systemic sexism in society. People still assume gender specific jobs and roles and while they may readily accept that there can be male flight attendants, female pilots, female physicians, et cetera, they have to actually think about such things. When they don’t, they automatically revert to…

I can't blame him. It's hard to keep track of what's what in "Yellowstone" with all those spinoffs.

We can never know for sure, but WW84 really seems like something that suffered from studio interference.

I love “Ex Machina” and might go for that in IMAX.

I bestow upon you our highest honor:

He wasn’t great. But I can’t really hold a 9 year old accountable for a bad performance. It’s not like he’s a professional who had spent decades honing his craft or dreaming about the project. Unlike the guy who wrote his part and directed his performance.

The trailers make this look like the blandest movie ever made.

No, the prequels haven’t been “normalized” or redeemed. Showing them on regular cable a lot doesn’t make them better. Excusing them as “children’s films” or pointing out that Rise of Skywalker is worse doesn’t make them better or justify their low quality.

This is my point, although you made it better and in more depth. His death is much worse for Boeing than him being alive.  He’s done his damage and killing him now just causes discussions like the ones being had.

The obvious conclusion is Boeing did it, but that would be the obvious conclusion before the fact and anybody planning it would have to be Trump levels of non-self aware to not see that.

You know how Kettle chips absolutely destroy the roof of your mouth like shards of glass?

For the people who decided they did not like “Beau is Afraid” without seeing it, I can tell you this from experience: seeing it will not make you like it more.

What? He doesn't strike me as a guy who takes himself too seriously.

Of all the weird things about Trump, and there are too many to count, his obsession with TV ratings is definitely one of them.

When you are under 30, everything is new and you yourself just did the world a huge favor by discovering it and letting them know about it.

“respectability-by-inertia”

He didn't see it until now?

IIRC, Clavell wrote 6 or 7 books about feudal Asian cultures.  But I’m not sure how closely related they were.

I just want to say that Butler was definitely gonzo, but he was also doing a Stellan Skarsgard impression and that was a great choice.