The last two episodes of Breaking Bad established that the story of Walter White became a latter-day Al Capone media obsession. His story was so well known on a national level that Elliot and Gretchen from Gray Matter were making the cable news rounds to distance themselves from Walt.

And Saul snapped to happy when he heard it was the insurance thing and being forced out that caused him to kill himself. 

What if you get attacked by giants, fish beasts *and* dragons if you try to sail off the edge of the map, and that’s why nobody has ever circumnavigated the globe?

Batman 1989 is largely an origin story, as he’s only been Batman for a few months at the start and we get the full pearls-in-alley flashback. Schumacher doesn’t go pearls-in-alley, but he does draw on the familiar comics imagery of young Bruce falling into the Batcave for the first time. Nolan then did the definitive…

To the show’s great credit, this is not a fan service prequel series where you’re constantly being nudged with callbacks to Breaking Bad. There’s some of that, but the show always gives you reasons to care about the characters, especially the new ones who have no connection to BrBa. And most of the recurring…

There’s also a scene in season one where Jimmy realizes that some medical equipment in Chuck’s hospital room has been plugged in the whole time, unbeknownst to Chuck.  I thought the show did an excellent job of showing that Chuck’s illness was “real” even though it was psychosomatic.

Whether the bunker gang survived or not, any population with fewer than 1000 breeding pairs is doomed to extinction in a few generations. So Tandy’s group, even if it grew to include the entire bunker population, is just building a sand castle waiting for the tide to come in.

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned in this thread — you’re all ignoring the people who create the content on those screens, the studios.

Over the past few decades, the studios have been demanding a bigger and bigger percentage of the opening weekend box office. It’s the reason movies are so front-loaded — dumped onto a…

Yikes! Here’s a list of potential storylines for a Young Jack Bauer series:

As a recovering MAME cab enthusiast, the time and aggravation involved in building one cabinet that plays every game is simply not worth it. I spent countless hours configuring all the controls for different types of games and added USB lightguns and racing wheels and trackballs, and then whenever someone came over to…

As a recovering MAME cab enthusiast, the time and aggravation involved in building one cabinet that plays every game…

Yeah but in the long run it would have cost far less money to delay the movie and release something Avengers-caliber that people wanted to see. By rushing out a turd to hit that release date, they left about a billion dollars on the table just for the first Justice League movie, and there will probably never be any…

DC should have just moved back the release date until after Cavill had wrapped on Mission Impossible. That would have given them time to cut their losses on Snyder’s work and write a coherent script, instead of the approach they took, where it seems like Whedon is shooting 15-minute old scenes scribbled on a cocktail…

When I first heard this sequel was going to exist, I was wondering how they would come up with enough ABBA songs for a feature length movie since they already used most of their hits in the first movie.  It’s pretty funny to learn that they just re-used some of them.

Couldn’t they have dealt with all of this in a post-climactic scene in Man of Steel? You know, instead of that scene where he downs a satellite and then the female soldier tells her CO she thinks Superman is hot?

So if Spielberg can’t move forward with an Indiana Jones movie unless he’s absolutely happy with the script, does this mean he was at some point absolutely happy with the Crystal Skull script?

Didn’t they drive by the totally not-ruined D.C. landmarks on the way to Alexandria?  And wasn’t that just a couple years ago in show-time?

Because when done properly (Better Call Saul, X-Men: First Class, Rogue One), a prequel allows the filmmakers to revisit a beloved universe and its characters without being burdened by character/actor deaths and conflicts that have been resolved later in the timeline.

unlike network/cable TV, you’re still paying (no matter how insignificantly) for things you aren’t interested in watching

There are really very few didactic, overtly left-wing movies made in Hollywood. Despite the right’s endless grousing about Liberal Hollywood, most studio movies are not really left-wing screeds about sensitive issues, it’s just that Hollywood has placed an increasing focus on including non-white, non-male, and…

Maybe D’Arcy did and that’s what really happened!