‘...he apparently also remained convinced that Saruman wasn’t, like, totally evil the whole time...’

The other talking point was RDJ’s deal that made him squillions. I don’t think any of the actors got anything like that for LOTR.

It’s the AMPTP heads going full Caligula.

They could bring back the Triangle Shirtwaist line while they’re at it.

Dammit. Ruining a perfectly good joke with facts!

If it’s on Ring cam, she was screwing the guy on the front lawn.

There’s an easy way of knowing that making those figures available would cause huge harm to the executives: they refuse to do it.

48 hours is plenty of time to review a game if you’re a speedrunner...

To be fair to those executives, having to pay compensation would make them victims of Weinstein too. /s

Nothing to be sorry about :). If I had to rate my own personal take on the violence in tv/movies, then the Coens rank about the top of the stuff I can still enjoy, and I’d put the Sopranos one rung below that. So I found your take surprising, wasn’t meaning to criticise.

Fair enough, like what you like. But it’s odd that you object to the violence in Sopranos but love Miller’s Crossing. The violence in Coen Brothers films is more frequent and more intense than the Sopranos. Even their freaking *comedies* have confronting violence.

That was halfway through S4. The show had already jumped the rails in the home stretch of S1.

Miller’s Crossing is a great gangster film, but it’s not a distilled Sopranos.

Yeah, somewhere around 2/3 of the way through Battlestar Galactica S1 I could see the cliff the show was running at, decided to stick with it in case they had the sense to pull back at the last minute...only to have them change direction in the last ep and jump off a completely different, much taller cliff. Such a…

Yeah, this is complex stuff and we can’t ever know for sure what would work better, but this is a long-established strategy for unions in lots of industries so it’s not like SAG-AFTRA and WGA are making it up as they go.

Yeah, no question he was in on the joke. Also, I don’t recall the movie ever insinuating that Sheeran was a bigger success because the Beatles never existed. Maybe I missed it. But it’s not like in this timeline Sheeran hasn’t had a lot of hits and sold out major venues (he had >100,000 turn up to a Melbourne…

Look, I get what you’re saying but I’m much more with dirtside on this. It’s an essential bargaining chip and it shouldn’t be abandoned just because some idiots won’t understand. And my experience is that bowing to wilfully ignorant morons, whether they be anti-fair wages, anti-vaxx, creationist, flat-earthers, or…

The best de-aging technology is re-casting.

Agreed. A bad edit can ruin the pacing, remove important lines of dialog, and so on, and I cannot fathom the decision to include Boomerang and Killer Croc as the second-rung characters, which I assume was the studio. But I saw the movie and I saw the shots Ayer put in the can. The only good thing in it is Margot…

Yeah, not going to go with Mann’s ‘stone cold accurate’ description, except in comparison to other hacker movies which are basically people casting magic spells via keyboard.