Remember when Mamet wasn't a complete fucking idiot? Ah, the good old days.

Edge of Tomorrow is the only one that jumps to mind. I’d also argue it’s close to the best movie he’s ever been a lead in. Maybe that’s just because I enjoyed watching him fail over and over again.

Non Top Gun related but related to the article: I’m actually a Gen-X person who loathes Ferris Bueller. 

Egypt borders Gaza/Israel and is historically heavily involved in the politics of the Middle East. It is also across the continent from Morocco.

“Cherokee writer Jamake Highwater (actually Jewish journalist Jackie Marks)“

It fits the geopolitics, sure, but the execution is still really goofy. State-sponsored terrorist sleeper cells are dressing up in taqiyah and keffiyeh to do a drive-by in their beat-up Volkswagen?

I think Goonies is less beloved as a movie and more as a suburban preteen wish fulfilment for something more; the idea that in the secret parts of your own boring neighborhood adventure awaits, full of discovery, action, riddles and traps.

I’ll be the Gen X offcast and say to this day I don’t understand the love for “The Goonies” (BTTF iss perfect, of course).

It’s OK to use “would” when guessing about how someone might react to something. You can say, for example “Let’s give John Waters a surprise birthday party. I bet he would love it.”

“We shall redouble our efforts by more effectively streamlining operations through synergizing value-added systems integration models to effectively deliver an enhanced user experience.”

I’m just imagining that ‘police cats’ is how Jason Schwartzman refers to all police officers.

“Police Cats” this fall on Disney+!

Yeah, usually this is my PSA when stuff like this comes up. Most of the stuff that gets called “method acting” around Oscar time has little to nothing to do with Strasberg and Stanislavski and the rest, and we really shouldn’t blame them when Jared Leto thinks it’s a good idea to mail Viola Davis used condoms or…

Is Natalie Portman doing training for ballet to play a ballet dancer really “method” though, or is that just what was required for the role? I don’t think Chris Evans is considered method because he works out for the Captain America role.

Oh man, those are my jam! When Netflix has something like “Lifeforce” suddenly and randomly on it, it brings me great joy.

I can’t wait until ‘Cats’ becomes the ‘Avatar’ sequel, and we can watch a blue Rebel Wilson unzip her skin to reveal a sparkly costume beneath.

That was an awful lot of underwater thriller names dropped without mentioning The Abyss, especially given the direct Aliens connection.

This is just Cats with updated CG. Every week they change it. Next week it’s going to be Bad Boys III.

So when do I get to see somebody do what Keanu Reeves does, only backwards and in heels?

I think the lack of changing is probably an issue of animation: every model that they use has to be fully developed, and more importantly it needs to have the facial animation to be able to talk convincingly. For this reason, to focus on a primary one makes sense, and personally I don’t think it will be a significant…