Or an adaptation of Ben Winters’ novel The Last Policeman, about a police detective who wants to solve murder cases in the few remaining weeks before a civilization-ending asteroid hits. Most other people (including most policemen) have stopped showing up to work because they don’t see the point of it.

Green Wing?

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You should have given some trigger warnings for that.

Well, in terms of Spectre and Waltz, it made me remember Bardeen in Skyfall, which while probably the second best Craig Bond movie after Casino Royale, had a rather weak villian role for Bardeen that was obviously supposed to remind of the viewers of his better performance in No Country for Old Men. So I wasn’t that…

For that matter, how did we as a society decide that “vanilla” means “white”? Vanilla beans are black! The only reason vanilla ice cream is white is because it is generally flavored with vanilla extract, which is pretty colorless and so the ice cream looks just the cream it is made of.

Well, the first couple were dirt cheap even adjusting for inflation — Dr. No was made on $1.1 million in 1962 (about $12 million today), But by 1967's You Only Live Twice you had budgets of $10.3 million ($95 million) as they included more stunts and gadgets. 1979's Moonraker was $34 million ($137 million). So pretty…

If one of them looks like Summer Glau, that would be understandable!

I was hoping for more a Screamers (which was based on PKD’s “Second Variety”) idea where the robots keep sending new Terminators with different looks and personalities to try to infiltrate the humans. Having them all look like Arnold or Robert Patrick seems like it would be too easy to spot them.

But that’s basically the same argument that business owners make against unemployment benefits — “Nobody wants to work anymore! These people make more money on unemployment benefits than I’m willing to pay them to work in my restaurant! This should be illegal!”. Both unemployment benefits and vacancy benefits are set…

Yeah even the objectively bad ones like Spectre and Octopussy still did well financially.

he’s a duck duck?

While I know you are joking, things like this have happened. Carpenter’s The Thing was viewed as a crass, gory film of no merit by most critics of the time, but these days it is viewed as one of the best scifi/horror films of the 1980s. Of course there might be no shadowy agenda involved, just critics that were out of…

And I’ve seen the trailer with Ms. Marvel freaking out over the tentacle cat before basically every movie I’ve seen in the past six months. And I’m not even talking about superhero movies. I saw it even before Killers of the Flower Moon for God’s sake.

But in all these cases, if the right set of people to play a given piece of music is a “symphony orchestra”, it is absurd not to consider it a symphony because that clearly is the genre of music it is.

Some of those things aren’t like the others. I know landlords aren’t the most sympathetic of people, but the idea of paying landlords when they don’t have tenants is meant to be like paying unemployment to people when they don’t have jobs -- the goal of both isn’t to discourage landlords finding tenants or people…

That’s a meaningless distinction — I have a recording of the 1812 Overture performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Should they have refused to play it on the grounds that they aren’t the Chicago Overture Orchestra?

Does nobody remember Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and its use of long-dead Laurence Olivier as the villain?

Ah, Hollow Man, a forgettable thriller except for the fact that it pioneered the creation of a literal fake movie critic, David Manning, who was created around 2000 in order to create positive quotes for films no real movie critic liked, such as Hollow Man and The Animal.