One of the many highlights: the hotel rooms, for a thousands of dollars per day experience, did not provide fully-paid Disney+ access.

“Dan Snyder (owner of the Washington Commanders)“

I haven’t seen the episode in probably 20 years but I can still hear the UN guy saying “A flaming horse’s patoot!”

Amy Winehouse was extremely popular when she was alive. “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good” were all huge hits, and she had many other well known songs including “Back to Black” and her cover of “Valerie” with Mark Ronson.

And some of the indirect influences are amazing too. There was a 1980's renaissance in Disney animation and several Broadway musicals that might have never happened if Ashman and Mencken hadn’t composed a musical version of Little Shop of Horrors.

“Protestors have been seen in frequent and large numbers around the concert venues, protesting the inclusion of Israel’s contestant, Eden Golan, in wake of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.”

I will never believe for a second that making Redfall was Arkane’s choice; I believe it was simply Zenimax tarting up the company for sale by showing Microsoft that, yes, see, they do have a money-printing machine- er, live service online game on the boil. Zenimax threw Arkane Austin under the bus.

I’m sure there’s some variety of tax incentive to keep the budget cheap that allows them to shoot in these types of places. 

Seems clear to me the difference is the Friars’ Club traveled in the same circles and knew the precise degree of disaster one another were, and boy were they all, while these last 30 years of ComFlix roasts-for-hire have mostly been A. any random person available for any random person available, and B. full of…

I’m surprised “cute souls-like” is such a controversial term.

“a scenario in which someone mentions a movie called The Scorch Trials”

Someone please offer Morena Bacarin better roles.

They do this:

In some ways it reminds me of people insisting “Pluto is a planet!” There’s an element of “you can’t know better than me.” and/or “What I’ve accepted as basic fact all my life can’t be wrong”

Is this because she’s a lesbian?

i know everyone here likes being sarcastic way more than they like movies, but i genuinely cannot wait to see whatever the hell this thing is.

They initially pitched a script called Ari / Alexa about a Hasidic teenager falling in love with AI, but it didn’t focus test well

I don’t think you pointed out the restraint that Cliff showed. Knowing her powers, he often didn’t answer or respond to some of her questions, he just smoothly transitioned to something else. That was fun to see.

If I was Rian Johnson, I’d keep palling around with my fun famous friends making cool shit in fun places like Glass Onion and Poker Face instead of being beholden to the Mouse and having to interact with the toxic SW fandom. But, I also imagine $$$ plays a big role in decisions like that.