Although it is pretty similar to the joke in Blazing Saddles where they watch the movie in the theater to figure out how it ends. Not exactly the same joke, but a similar joke with the characters recognizing they are in a movie.

Exactly, how many times did Brooks use the “Dramatic music plays and the characters start looking around for the source of the music” gag? I mean, it is pretty funny the first time you see it, but less funny every time after.

“Hi, I’m Bad Kuchi Kopi, and I’m an autoholic. I’m six months car free, though”

This movie reminds me a lot of the 1984 Robin Williams film Moscow on the Hudson in which Williams plays a Soviet circus clown who defects to the US when they were giving a performance in NYC. He wasn’t stuck in the airport, but the whole “New Yorkers of various social classes and races unite to help the hapless…

“You don’t know what I’m up against. Because it’s full of things that are only correct because they’re grammatical, but they’re tough on the ear. You see, this is a very wearying one, it’s unpleasant to read. Unrewarding.” -- Orson Welles

There would have been more discussion of trade relations if he did.

LA is great for oilmen’s museums. The Getty is pretty great too.

When Carpenter first met Antonoff some years ago, she “was peeing my pants because I wanted to work with him for my whole life.”

Maybe you are making a joke, but the Armand Hammer he is named after made his money in oil. He did buy some stock in Arm & Hammer as a joke, but the name is completely coincidental.

He didn’t have a lot to work with given the terrible script, though.

Maybe they can have sequels that follow Riley through her life like Michael Apted’s “7/21/28/35/42/49/56/63" series! Also known as the “Up” series, not to be confused with Pixar’s Up.

Isn’t a major trope of SF the tragedy of hubristic scientists and engineers who think their creation is perfect and learning it isn’t? Sounds a lot like making an “unsinkable” ship that sinks on its maiden voyage. And how can those lions talk? Sounds like genetic engineering gone mad to me.

I was never disgusted with myself for my crush on Lara Croft (the original 1990s pointed breasted version). Granted, I was in my twenties.

In other news, mathematicians have discovered that 5 isn’t actually an odd number!

I remember reading comments that considered it “brilliant” because it quoted Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”. That isn’t brilliant, it’s just being pointlessly pretentious (although to be fair, the original did misquote William Blake with the “Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the…

How in the world am I the first person to star your pun?

“You play in a police band?”

Villenueve is just so soulless though. He reminds me of Zach Snyder with slightly more talent. It’s why BR 2049 will never be a true classic like the original Blade Runner. Lynch’s Dune has heart (and it helps that he had far better actors to work with). Yes, there is the weirdness of the stuff in Lynch’s version like…

Hot tip; Until they inevitably fix it, watching Tubi through a web browser with an adblocker like uBlock Origin completely removes the ads. I don’t mean you are watching blank space for 30 seconds or whatever; it literally skips the ad as if it didn’t exist.

It’s got Night of the Comet (1984). It’s the only movie you ever need to watch! But seriously, it’s a lot of fun and I never understood why it didn’t become a classic. It’s a great mix of action, comedy and horror that reminds me a lot of Shaun of the Dead.