I want a K-2SO show with Tudyk reprising the role. Either set before Rogue One, or maybe his personality was backed up and downloaded into a new droid body.

I hear they aren’t even going to hire a real demigod to play Maui! So they’ll be guilty of the sin of “godface” when they make a mere mortal play that role.

Is White Squall actually good? I’ve never seen it and I’m frightened to now given how Qanon has adopted it (or at least its tagline), and if I stream it the services will start recommending that I watch Plandemic or something.

And the Apple 1984 ad!

I’d say Prometheus is Scott’s most disappointing movie even if it isn’t his worst (but I still think it needs to be in his bottom five). It’s disappointing for the same reason The Phantom Menace was — we were excited to see a return to a beloved franchise by the guy who started it, only to learn that he had no idea…

Or “actually, Einstein didn’t fail math”.

The Japanese were so generous! They had the co-prosperity sphere! It wasn’t like Western colonialism, it was all about helping everybody! Seriously though, while it might not have been better than colonialism in practice, their branding of it was brilliant.

Well, they do have a very particular set of skills. Skills they have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make them a nightmare for people like you. If you let them inspect your chest now that’ll be the end of it. They will not look for you, They will not pursue you, but if you don’t...

I can see how this task may call for a nippleist or the like, but a “nippleologist” would have to be a researcher specializing in the science of nipples, and would hold an academic position, publish papers on nippleology, and in general be too busy to hang out on a set.

He also enjoyed San Dimas’ waterpark, Waterloo. Although you’d think the name would have unpleasant connotations for him.

Maybe they can set it in Manchukuo, the puppet state Japan ran in China from 1932 to 1945. The kid can be someone who admires the Japanese occupiers and wants to collaborate.

Personally, now that South Korean culture is all the rage, with K-pop, films like Parasite, and shows like Squid Game, I’m waiting for the Taekwondo Tot.

Scott certainly is an uneven director, but 1492 isn’t anywhere near his worst. It isn’t even that bad, although I know the idea of making a movie about Columbus as a flawed man rather than as a complete monster with no redeemable qualities wouldn’t fly today.

What I want to know is if they show Joséphine’s bad teeth. Apparently (having grown up in the French Caribbean) her teeth were almost entirely rotten, a combination of eating a lot of sugar and the poor dental hygiene of the time. 

You think that’s bad? Why do engineers need a whole degree, and sometimes grad school as well, just to drive a train? It’s on tracks, it’s not that hard!

That used to be the case, “Oscar winners” were always self-serious movies dealing with “important issues” and genre pictures were snubbed, but remember we live in a world where The Shape of Water won best picture in 2017. Basically if you can get your “important messages” in a genre picture (which both Barbie and The…

Which is weird. France is a republic now because they got *rid* of their kings and emperors, although it’s been a rough road — kingdom, first republic, first empire, back to kingdom, second republic, second empire, third republic, fascist state, fourth republic, and now fifth republic. So Napoleon, as great a general…

It was the damn referee! Wellington was clearly out of bounds and everyone in the stands could see it!

Napoleon reportedly spoke French with a weird accent (because it wasn’t his native language), so an American accent makes sense. It reminds me of an old British movie “Red Monarch” about Stalin where Stalin spoke with an Irish accent, symbolizing how he spoke Russian with a Georgian one.

Most “not-French languages” in France like are arguably French dialects, even if they differ from Parisian French (yes, I know there is no real concrete distinction between dialects of related languages and completely separate languages other than the old quip that a language is a dialect that has its own navy). But…