Roger Ebert even gave it three and a half stars (out of four)! Then again, he also gave Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy four stars. He was born in 1942, so nostalgia for both these characters (who were more popular then than now) may have played a part of it.

We are merely exchanging long protein strings. If you can think of a simpler way, I’d like to hear it!

The show is inconsistent on this, granted, but Starfleet isn’t exactly a military outfit. Yes, they have ranks and wear uniforms but some real life organizations such as the US Uniformed Public Health Service and the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps do too. Like Starfleet, while they can engage in combat in certain…

And the very first episode “Encounter at Farpoint” was almost a parody of the “message” episodes of Trek. Yes, humanity has done lots of bad things to each other and to the planet over the years, but having humanity put on trial for it is just so on the nose.

In part that’s because many notorious criminals have otherwise rather common names. And when they don’t add a middle name a lot of people get annoyed — back when Scott Peterson (who was tried and convicted of murdering his wife although recently there is some possibility that he was innocent)  was news a lot of people…

When I lived in Montreal, down the street from my apartment was a restaurant that was called “Indiana’s American Diner & Bar”. I guess they were looking for a name that sounded exotic to Quebecois ears, but Indiana seems low on the exoticism.

Aww, I love doggies! That Henry Jones jr. kid who owns him is kind of a brat though.

That’s more of an Easter egg than a connection — he often tried to put in an ancestor of his WWII character Peter Marlowe (who was loosely based on Clavell himself) but they generally didn’t play a major role in the plot.

I was expecting that she was hit with a stack of 500 sheets of printer paper.

Me too. And as stupid as it was, it was less stupid than the competing movie of the same year, Volcano, starring Tommy Lee Jones.

I’m disappointed that Brosnan had so little respect for geological features. Did he learn nothing from playing Dr. Harry Dalton, noted volcano expert, in Dante’s Peak (1997)?

The Producers. And Waitress.

True, true, but someone can play a creep without necessarily being one.

Okay, two many acronyms I was thinking of TFA rather than TPM. I agree that Anakin building C3PO is a bit weird - how did he program him to speak all those languages - did he know them himself? As for leaving his mother in slavery, that’s shitty, but it makes sense - she wasn’t important to the Jedi and she knows it.…

TFM wasn’t a good movie, but it all pretty much made sense — it was basically exactly the same story of the original Star Wars, with a young person on a desert planet meeting a cute droid destined to be a popular toy and going off to an adventure. It basically was trying to coast on nostalgia, which Rogue One later…

Even if that’s true for the Phantom Menace, with its action scenes of pod-racing and juvenile humor of Jar-Jar stepping in poop, did any kid love the other movies, with their endless exposition of fictional politics?

He lives the whole year waiting for it.

He seemed to be pretty proud of his son Josh, who became a minor actor and indie director and seems to have no scandal associated with him to his credit.

It does spoil Better Off Dead a bit knowing what he later became. Jeffery Jones who played the principal in Ferris Bueller also turned out to be a creep which puts a bit of a damper on watching that too.

I was never in show business, but cocaine was more of a 1970s/1980s Boomer drug, not really a GenX thing. By the time we got to the drug using stage in the early 1990s enough famous people had died from coke that it wasn’t that cool.