Huh. Both Dish Network and the U.S. Marshalls being hacked in the same day. Really a sign of the times, isn’t it?

Ooph, amen to that. I also remember the... wasn’t there a zombified guy in the closet at one point, too? Been a while since I saw the movie, but I could swear I remember something like that happening and giving my young self the willies.

Having grown up on those films, too, I feel like there’s at least some salient differences. Granted, this might very much be me going “old man yells at cloud” on something isn’t as different from my experience as

Ooh, William Jackson Harper as Superman? Holy crap, do I actually kind of want that now.

Heh. That’s a good insight, actually. You can definitely feel Spielberg’s angst about female sexuality being prone to weaponization in his eyes during that ONE scene in Munich, for example (if you’ve seen the movie, you know what scene I’m talking about). The film’s later sex scene is... also just totally bizarre,…

Yeah, I think it’s very telling that as the internet age has progressed and we can actually read accounts by the people who there more easily than we ever could before, the idea that Tobe Hooper was just a cypher on set while Spielberg basically did the whole thing has really (rightfully) lost pretty much all its…

Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. I’ve basically given up on Fairy Tale. It’s been nothing but a slog so far, and based off of the comments of those podcasters and their fans that I socialize with, it doesn’t seem to get any better.

Oh, yeah. I am a parent, and can concur. That’s screwed up.

Yeah, I was always was mystified by people who didn’t see her as African-American, because even as a white boy from lily-white Utah, her inspiration always felt kind of obvious to me:

Nope. You lost me. That song would be painful even if it wasn’t based on an awful, racist caricature.

...AND SO YOU ALWAYS SHALL!

I could go on and on about how amazing James Hong is.

Yeah, I do not get the sheer amount of dumping-on this movie is getting AT ALL. Love & Thunder? Sure, I could see it getting dumped on like this. Multiverse of Madness? ABSOLUTELY, that movie deserves to be dumped on. Easily the sloppiest script of any Marvel movie to date. Yes, even compared to Iron Man 2.

The best part is that kind of character is still very much in Paul Rudd’s wheelhouse.

Hey, nothing says “family friendly” like hardcore drugs, massive swearing and an Icelandic tourist getting her face eviscerated off-screen (it’s ok, her faceless body is found later).

...and thus far, James Gunn has yet to make bad movie (your mileage may vary on Guardians... vol. 2, but I would argue that even if its a step down from the first one, it’s not at all a bad movie)

Helluva lot better than that derivative “Hakuna Matata,” I’d say.

Does this mean my big playlist of every song I’ve ever liked, ever, is going away? Because sometimes when I can’t decide which of my over 3,000 (no, I am not joking) playlists to play from, I’ll just go into that one and hit shuffle. So it would be a shame to lose that.

The reason why the grass is always greener on the other side is because of all the extra manure. Unfortunately, most people don’t notice that part until they’ve already scaled the fence.

I think I read about that meeting. Is that the one where instead of making eye contact with either King or Straub, Spielberg just kept futzing with some kind of toy on his desk?