This is what’s so...interesting(?) about the new movie.

True and I would go so far as you wouldn’t WANT her at every meeting. While I don’t know much about her background outside of acting, and even then very little of that, I doubt she has much if any high level negotiation skills that would come in handy. She really is just the face of the union itself, they had whole…

Not only that, with negotiations this big and complex, they are, 90% to 95% of this is being handled by huge legal teams with general direction and input from someone like Drescher.  It’s not like she is sitting there reading through hundreds or thousands of pages of legal documents.

“Bad look” and “optics” both mean “It’s your fault I misunderstood what you did.”

This is all bullshit. Being a “Brand Ambassador” for a company like D&G means going to parties and posing for picture with “Beautiful People" in fancy places. You don’t do that job by tweeting from your couch and participating in Zoom calls. If she had been shooting a movie in New Zealand and commented from the set…

The very cynical, hyper-critical, elitist part of me responds to the first sentence of your second paragraph by pointing to the pre-strike slates of the most profitable studios. And recognize that those slates are based, in large part, on audience interest and box office. One of the most common criticisms of the MCU…

Well now I wish you had just written the movie, seriously. Because I agree with everything you said! A Yesterday’s Enterprise type situation would have been far superior to what we actually got. 

While watching a bad movie, I typically remind myself that, very often, just as much work goes into a bad movie as a good movie.

very good call. lots of VFX work and crap, too.

Nail on the head.

To be fair French Air Traffic Control were probably on strike again that day.

The end of 28 Weeks Later is still nonsense though as there's no way the French wouldn't have dynamited their end of the Channel Tunnel as well as put a massive minefield, barbed wire fences and machine guns there as well. Then there's shooting down any aircraft leaving the UK especially after all the mayhem kicked…

And 5 will start with John sitting up on the table and killing the mortician with a f*cking pencil.

Where?

Yes.

I recently rewatched it and there are definitely hints that he's still alive

also like...i love reeves and i don’t want to shit on him...but his face is looking weirder and weirder these days, and his voice sounds really strange.

Yup.

She’s welcome to try to understand me by sleeping with me.

And to be clear, if River hadn’t died, and they got right on making the next one, with all the writers and producers from Crusade, it probably results in a bunch of good films.