Eh, I’m still convinced the big twist is that Marie didn’t die and therefore Ethan has spent the last 35 years scaling skyscrapers and riding motorcycles off cliffs because he was set up.

Did McQuarrie just spoil Part 2?

Yes quite a “sweet summer child” thing to assume someone like Mr. Big was actually harmed by 2008. When stocks were at their low, they bought more stock, then saw their holdings explode in value over the following decade. Wall Street bonuses were slightly smaller for like one year due to the political issues around…

The internet has compiled numerous visual essays arguing either side of the ending, with stuff like the presence of Cobb’s wedding band and theories about other characters’ totems and things like that. They both make good points!

RDJ wasn’t in The Machinist, so he didn’t witness Bale’s process. Looking at his filmography, none of his movies feature performances involving a physical transformation or intense preparation.

Why would anyone even want Nolan to permanently end the ambiguity? As soon as he says “Cobb is trapped in a dream” or “Cobb made it home” (which are kind of the only two answers), there’s nothing left to discuss anymore.

Well, how do you adjust for the fact that in 2004, streaming didn’t exist and DVDs didn’t come out until six months after the theatrical release date?

There was a lot of drama to be mined from Finn’s traumatic upbringing as a Stormtrooper, and his guilt over many of the actions he performed for the First Order prior to defecting.

How dare Netflix make customers pay to watch their content?

The strike isn’t about actors like Tom Cruise. For every member of SAG-AFTRA as wealthy and powerful as him, there are literally thousands of members who are working a temp job or driving an Uber to make ends meet between Law & Order guest spots. Just because Tom Cruise is doing well, it doesn’t mean that actors as a…

How much does “gaming the system” matter if very few non-Q people are actually seeing this movie? It’s playing to nearly empty theaters.

I never thought that was an unreasonable request. When you’re that famous and under that kind of pressure, who wants to be stared at by hundreds of crew members and extras?

Also, at that late stage in negotiations it must have been obvious that the AMPTP was not budging and that a strike was inevitable. Drescher held the line and did not take whatever unacceptable deal was on the table. The rank and file membership would have reason to be angry if she sold them out with a bad deal.

Could be Downsizing. That was mostly shot in Canada and then they actually flew to Norway to shoot the third act. Not a terrible movie but it was such a slog to watch the full thing, so I could totally see Damon realizing it wasn’t working (after initially being excited to work with Alexander Payne) and being bummed…

I still don’t get why the plot of the movie didn’t just involve the old Enterprise traveling to the future, or vice versa, as a quick and easy way to get the old and new crews talking to each other. The Nexus takes *so much* screen time to set up the very simple worlds-collide premise from the poster, and then it’s…

I always interpreted the story to mean that Wonka sold normal, non-magical chocolate bars, and all of the magic stuff was suspected but not known to the general public. Which is why everyone wanted the golden tickets, to find out for sure. All of the magic candy in the factory was presented as a highly experimental…

I know, right? You’d have to assume everyone on continental Europe would be freaked the fuck out by the Rage virus and would probably have pushed to just nuke Britain to ash and never repopulate it.

The first movie established that all the Infected just die of starvation within a month, which is why the second movie had to include the whole Typhoid Mary plot device to bring the Rage virus back.

Yeah it’s a real shame the franchise never took off because they alienated fans of the original show like that. It could have run for 30+ years with 7-8 sequels if they made Phelps a good guy.

This is kind of a weird article because the Mission Impossible franchise has so deliberately avoided any world building or mythology around the IMF agency. It’s an agency, they send people on impossible missions using self-destructive recordings, and their agents have goofy custom gadgets perfectly tailored for each…