The fact that so many of the actors on Random Roles apparently don't watch their own films often or at all is one of my favorite parts.

I don't see it working out too well for the natives still. They lacked any central power structures and the technology to go toe-to-toe with any European power. Best case scenario was they simply slowed the progress of settlers.

I got roped into the Vector Marketing callback business when I was a desperately unemployed teen over the summer. Heard the whole spiel and was feeling lukewarm on it, but I'd probably have been desperate enough to try it if my parents hadn't pointed out I'm terrible at sales and I'd probably be losing money traveling…

I feel like Voyager is a series with a lot of great or entertaining episodes, but unlike TNG or DS9, it just doesn't have a thematic core or baseline consistency to rely on. As such, it's a show of parts that doesn't amount to a whole in the same way as the best of Trek.

They've already talked about how Turner's motivation to rebel is the rape of a loved one, which I haven't seen ever mentioned in any historical record. I think the accuracy has already gone out the window.

I'm only interested in, ultimately, having raised or helped raise some decent human beings to replace me, and being decent enough that someone would be upset after I've gone. A pretty short list of stuff, but I don't have to worry about nagging regrets.

If you're interested in that concept, the podcast "Unjustly Maligned" does it already in a longer (30min-1hr) format. https://www.theincomparable…

Partially I think it's the AV Club's fault. Interviews live and die on the ability of *both* people involved, and the AV Club tends to ask leading questions that their guests just seem to nod along with in agreement. There's no springboard to new discoveries or depths, it's just a flat statement that sits there…

I was kind of scared going to see Jurassic Park 3D when it hit theaters in 2013, because I'd never seen the film on the big screen and I thought either the CG would be incredibly dated and/or the 3D would be horrible. To my surprise, neither happened—the CG has some seams but it never takes me out of the film like…

Given Doom's background as a member of a marginalized ethnic group, it always seemed reasonable to me that he'd have a fiercely protective streak towards his people and be utterly uninterested with the suffering he causes others. The great thing about his benevolent dictator contrast to his megalomaniacal plots is…

The Mad Max of Fury Road is so bare a character that Gibson would have added a lot just by the continuity as you said; swapping the actor to someone else and not much else changes unless it's an innate attribute.

I was going to say "people never act like normal people" being the consistent problem, and I lost it completely at the door slowly closing on the keys. "Let me just reach blindly behind the door instead of opening it up again!"

I think when I look at what's derivative from Star Wars, it's the hero's journey, and stylistic elements from the old movie serials and films it drew inspiration from. But the sci-fi universe it created managed to feel dramatically different than anything else on screen (and for being something made in the late 70s,…

His buddies got blown up more directly because Jessica Jones gave Kilgrave a bomb.

"Risky and inefficient" describes Jessica Jones' plans to deal with Kilgrave far more than Simpson. Not to mention Jessica's first plan to deal with Kilgrave… was just to run away.

I don't think Insurrection holds in your example, because while "revenge" is part of the story, it's really not the driving motivator or really the theme at all.

I think the first bit up to going to Kronos is one of the best Trek openings, period, even with the "should we forget about that plot device we came up with that breaks star travel, or… ah hell let's lean into it more!" Then they go off the rails with the torpedoes, Khan, and the bad reimagining of the series'…

It shuts people up, but it doesn't really stop them from thinking that way (if anything it can backfire and they'll stick to their guns even more firmly.)

I think it just ties into hating Swift because of Swift, and she's a pop artist, rather than anything deeper than that. I mean, I'm certainly not a fan, but I think the trending towards "you're a skinny blond white girl, so you can't complain" says more than her other critiques.

While I have no doubt that the comic could be bad, the review for Jobs seems mostly to be rated poorly because it doesn't cover all the bad stuff the reviewer went in looking for. All the review is missing is the utterance of "Apple fanboys" or "cult" to complete the tone of derision.