The sequels could have been executed better, but they also perfectly demonstrate the limitations of the premise. There’s an island full of dinosaurs in cages. You can’t make a movie where they just stay in cages the whole time and humans are never in danger. So you have the twist baked into the first movie — what if…

Pop stars have struggled to transition into serious acting roles since Elvis. Performing a musical act on stage is just a different skill set from performing as an actor in a film. They tend to work better playing colorful supporting roles, rather than headlining.

I mean, it probably is difficult to abstain for six months when you’re a famous actor and beautiful actresses and models are constantly offering you sex.

Your moral approval is not the prize you think it is. I am the center of the universe and I just allow you to exist on its periphery, impotently hectoring me for my actions, which you have zero control over. I will not mask again unless there is a new variant which I deem to be a personal threat to me. I will suffer no…

Yeah if I found out Gal Gadot repeatedly had sex with me while thinking I was her dead boyfriend from WW1, I’d stop at nothing to have her thrown up under the prison on rape charges. I totally wouldn’t, like, just pretend to be a dead WW1 soldier.

Then acquiesce to optional masking and pipe down with your masks-forever moral disapproval. You do not have to keep repeating  yourself. It is boring.

Well, I’m not going to. Make me. You can’t.

If it’s so easy to ignore a right, maybe it’s not really a right. Calling something a right doesn’t make it one.

Okay, so your position is that 100% of the population must wear masks forever in order to protect 5-10% of the population.

I’ll watch it. The prequels didn’t show us enough of the political intrigue due to time constraints, but they can really let that stuff breathe in the longer format. I’m looking forward to seeing exactly which Senate procedural maneuvers Palpatine’s sycophants will abuse until Mon Mothma gets frustrated and takes up…

I think Cole is physically attracted to Rhaenyra, but that’s a separate question as to whether or not he’s really consenting. Maybe Sally Hemings thought Jefferson was cute. People still can’t really give consent when the power imbalance is such that one person fears for their life if they refuse sex, and Cole appears…

I find it refreshing that the stakes are so low. I thought the best part of GoT was all the petty squabbling among nobles about who gets to sit on a pointy chair. It really lost its way whenever they had to cut back to the ice zombies and Chosen One prophecies, particularly because as we now know, none of that stuff…

I think this can only be read as a rape scene. Cole cannot meaningfully consent because the power imbalance is so great — if he rejects the princess / heiress to the Iron Throne, she can make up any story she wants and have him killed. But if he begins an affair with her, he risks death. Cole calculates that there is…

Catch Me If You Can is 20 years old now! His filmography since is pretty rough.

Ticket prices have more or press kept pace with inflation, but now that everyone has access to infinite streaming content and spent 1-2 years forced to watch everything at home, the theatrical experience has lost value. People aren’t willing to pay what they were willing to pay, in inflation adjusted terms, to watch…

My issue was, didn’t they previously explain that Wong became Sorcerer Supreme because Dr. Strange was snapped by Thanos? And then he doesn’t have to give the title back after the Blip, because no-backsies?

The funny thing is that in every one of your examples, the franchise in question has released an installment that does, in fact, change the primary characters’ motivations and try to undermine the franchise status quo. Bond *repeatedly* goes rogue and quits Her Majesty’s Secret Service in disgust, like to the point…

TROS was terrible, and the hatred is justified, but that was also the last movie I saw in a theater before the pandemic. That’s probably true for a lot of people (the only movies that did any business between then and March 2020 were Bad Boys for Life and The Invisible Man) and I think it’s part of the reason it was…

Oprah is a billionaire! I’m aware of Dr. Demento primarily because he popped up in a Y2K-era documentary about Weird Al where he took credit for discovering him. I don’t think he’s some kind of timeless pop culture legend that the younger generations are or should be aware of.

Cooper is seen in old age makeup during the first Black Lodge dream sequence around the third episode, so it was established very early on that Cooper spends a long time there. While there were ways to write around that (like maybe Cooper experiences 25 years in the Lodge, while only a few weeks go by in Twin Peaks,…