Indoor amusement parks especially at the time seemed to have that fate — in the Chicago era there was an indoor park called Old Chicago that only lasted a few years in the mid-late 1970s. It’s been immortalized in the terrible 1978 Amy Irving movie “The Fury” where Irving (playing a young disturbed woman with weird…

In most of the US parking lots for any business (including bars) are essential. There is no way to get to these places other than by driving, thanks to about 100 years of urban/suburban planning that designed for the car rather than walking, biking, or mass transit.

And the soundtrack! I often make fun of Hans Zimmer as budget-basement John Williams, but Crimson Tide has an awesome soundtrack by Zimmer. I still have the CD somewhere around.

That’s a very confusing first image — it looks like Tennant and Tate are reacting to the animated character and I was wondering at first whether there was a “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” style episode of Dr. Who.

Well, Aussie by choice — he was born in Malta. Which makes him particularly appropriate to play the “short, dead dude” because like Corsica, Malta is also an island in the Mediterranean! 

True, we need to encourage articles like this (and the interview with the actor who played Napoleon in Bill & Ted) because they are more interesting than the latest gossipy “celebrity X may have done something bad/said something stupid” article.

This is great — something the “old” AVClub would do. While certainly people have been thinking about this performance lately for obvious reasons, I don’t think most of us really stopped to think about the actor himself (I didn’t even know his name) and how he got to play Napoleon.

Okay, if it was like the stupid “Cougar” in John Cougar Mellencamp (also picked by his label) I absolve her.

Not really. Why do people create stage names, pen names, whatever? Because they want to separate their works from themselves. I’m not saying that’s always unjustified; there may be real reasons for it if they live for example in a dictatorship or like George Eliot, because they are a woman in a culture that doesn’t…

Literally that’s why I’m here. I don’t care about the articles. I live in the Washington DC area now and there used to be a great blog site DCist. It still exists, but doesn’t have comments anymore. I stopped reading it.

It reminds me of when I was in Germany and a restaurant offered “Milwaukee Pizza”. I’m from near Milwaukee, and while many American cities have pizza styles named after them like New York, Chicago, New Haven, and even Detroit, “Milwaukee Pizza” isn’t a thing.

I don’t know, do they descend from the “beaker people”? If their ancestors are Celts, Saxons, Romans, Normans, Vikings, etc., they are colonizers, just from a long time ago. And to be fair we don’t know if the beaker people were the original inhabitants of Britain — they are just the earliest ones we know.

Oh, we know about your country too! We love your culture and celebrate it by going to Outback Steakhouse (yes, I know that despite the theme, they started in Florida).

Well, in retrospect, the casting seems appropriate at least.

And his late brother Tony directed a lot of influential, if somewhat low-brow, action films like Top Gun, Crimson Tide, and Enemy of the State.

It was in the “old times”. People get confused by that. Like if you go to any “Renaissance fair” it will be about people dressing up as knights  and not Leonardo da Vinci and the like.

Ugh, I hate it when people put their shirts on in court.

Sure, it is. How do you define good and evil? If good means helping the helpless, then who are the helpless, and how do we help them? People have never fully agreed on those details, and that disagreement is one of the reasons politics exist.

That’s the least of the movie’s problems. Crowe is an excellent actor and has portrayed British and American characters admirably, so portraying a Roman doesn’t seem too absurd.

No. Even very conservative people (like Walt Disney himself) believe in the concept of “good” and “evil” and that heroes help the helpless. That’s not political. What gets political is when people map these things into the real world, because real life isn’t that simple and one side’s heroes are another’s villains.