Could Snyder’s Superman scenes have really been that bad? He only has 10 minutes of screen time and they basically reshot all of it. The reshot Supes scenes aren’t exactly lighting the world on fire, even without the nonstop distraction of the CGI upper lip. Once they saw the first tests on that, the suits should…

When we get to the flashback where William is played by Ed Harris, he goes out of his way to mention what a piece of shit the real Jim Delos was. So why clone him 149 times? William hates him, and Jim has no family left to even remember him. The answer must be that William wanted to perfect the technique on Jim so he…

The flashback with William being pitched on Westworld for the first time seems to have set a rough timeline for the series — the first hosts were perfected within the next 10 years. Peter Mullan, who plays Jim Delos, was born in 1961. Even with a few years of wiggle room it’s not a stretch to think he’d listen to the…

Modernity causes depression, just because of the fundamental disconnect between the lifestyle humans are biologically adapted to and the lifestyle we currently live. Pharmaceuticals can’t bridge that gap, so all industrialized and post-industrialized countries are going to have millions of depressed people. America’s…

The Simpsons didn’t have much difficulty putting out 70 “perfect” episodes in a 24-per-season format during any three years of the 90's. And we all know Harmon will take a good 10-15 years to actually deliver all these episodes.

I thought Iron Man was always CGI and there was no physical Iron Man suit.

I’m still hoping they introduce some kind of anti-Rajworld where Indian customers get to colonize and “explore” London and all the white hosts are subservient. Because so far, nearly every customer of the Delos parks appears to be super white, but we know from the real-world scenes that this is all happening off the…

The episode descriptions got you into Twin Peaks during a time, nearly 30 years ago, when you had to watch a show on one of the four major networks at a prescribed time (or remember to set your VCR to record it). If the episode description in the TV Guide didn’t tell you exactly what kind of show you were about to…

Ableface?

Maybe wealthy Indians have their own park where they get to defeat the colonists every weekend. Westworld and its related parks seem to cater to wealthy westerners, despite the parks apparently existing on Chinese islands. There’d definitely be a market among wealthy westerners to relive the “glory days” of…

Yeah, it came out after the Van Damme live action movie and featured Mortal Kombat-style digitized graphics of JCVD and the rest of the cast rather than the hand-drawn sprite art the series was known for at the time. And it *sucked*. Totally unresponsive controls, poor hit detection and choppy animation. Easily a low…

Well, they could have just said the show takes place a few months before Thanos’ arrival, giving them plenty of time to spin their wheels without addressing the Snap until we all knew exactly how Avengers 4 would reverse it. Infinity War takes place over a few days, so if they’re talking about Thanos’ arrival they…

The nine main characters are rarely all on-screen together, but I think the single-character focus made the problem seem worse than it was because each episode only features one or two of the character pairings. It will be less noticeable that they’re never all in the same room once they’re free to cut between…

I realize I’m in the minority on this, but it really bothers me when there’s an ageless character who’s supposed to be a few centuries old and then the actor ages noticeably over the 10-15 years they play the character. Hemsworth looks good for a 34-year-old, but when we met Thor he was 1500 years old and looked 27.

Yeah I caught that when Thor specifically says “Thanos killed half my people” to the Guardians, but we also don’t see an escape pod and the Asgardian mothership completely explodes, apparently killing everyone on board. I thought this should have been made clearer. Maybe Tessa Thompson was too busy to show up for…

Iron Man, Cap and Hulk have been winding towards the end of their respective character arcs for the last few installments. The actors are really starting to show their age, and it’s best if they can come up with a story-based reason to pass the torch so they don’t have to reboot the whole MCU continuity.

I wonder how…

I think they had an unrealistic assumption that lots of its users would burn themselves out on seeing 10 movies a week before MoviePass burned through all its seed money, and then they could charge something like $30/mo where they made a profit because half of their subscribers only saw one movie per month. Back when…

I’m glad you’re not my wife too.

If I had asked my wife’s permission before kissing her at the end of our first date, we wouldn’t have had a second date and our two kids wouldn’t exist.

The burden of proof is on the people who want to redefine the term “sexual assault” to include unwanted attempts at kissing, because it never meant that until last year. I think Brokaw’s behavior was inappropriate and gross, but I also think it devalues real assault when we round all inappropriate behavior into that…