Hot take incoming, but OBJ is not a generational talent.

He’s had 3 excellent years, one memorable catch, and a single playoff visit.

Mike Evans, receiver for the Bucs, was drafted in 2014, same year as OBJ. In his career, he has 60 more catches, around 1700 more receiving yards, 18 more receiving touchdowns, is the…

Arnold also possessed a look that made him really stand out from the action stars of decades prior.

Outside of former football players in Blacksploitation movies (like Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Bernie Casey), and someone like a Steve Reeves (another former bodybuilder-turned-actor from the 1950s, but mostly popular…

Disney purchased Lucasfilm for a little over $4b. Half of that was cash, the other half buy issuing stock.

Disney had revenues of $42b in 2011, the year before the acquisition. They weren’t hurting for cash, especially with the annual revenues that the Star Wars IP brings in.

It wasn’t as though they did a leveraged…

In my cynicism towards the corporate world, I can only imagine one reason why they did it like this.

The executives (namely Kathleen Kennedy, the President of Lucasfilm) were too worried about another person becoming incredibly powerful due to their potential masterful handling of the IP. Disney (in particular…

She’d be brilliant in a spy-thriller where they’d actually use the fact she was in the IDF (compulsory, but that’s more that can be said for most other performers) to their advantage.

I’m also of the opinion that she makes a better potential villainess than she does a leading lady.

Maybe the joke is going over my head (in which case, my bad), but Guy Ritchie has made three decent movies after that: Aladdin and The Gentlemen, both in 2019, and Wrath of Man, which came out earlier this year.

That’s exactly my point.

In all 3 of his films, the relative power levels of the protagonists were significantly less than the opposition. Therefore, it made it easy to root for them, because the stakes were clear, and they were, for most of the movie, underdogs. It also made it much more realistic to invest narrative…

Looking at the Georgia code, both the defense and prosecution are granted 9 peremptory challenges for any felony, and 15 if the state is seeking the death penalty.

Very few movies make me rather angry after watching them, but Nomadland was one of those movies.

What a miserable movie, and even with the good cinematography, it doesn’t make up for a miserable viewing experience, especially when the other nominees in the category all had more memorable movies in almost every…

Part of the reason that Guardians worked is that none of the characters are especially powerful relative to the enemy that they’re directly facing, or in the greater scope of the universe. Therefore, them coming together felt needed, along with spending more time with them as it was conducive to understanding how them…

The issue with the line is that it was about 3 years too late. It was a popular meme in 2015. Memes have a very short shelf life, so even if you assume the script was being written sometime in 2016, you’re still looking at a line that was 2-3 years old, and irrelevant, by the time the movie was released.

It actually…

To answer your salient question: because the overwhelming majority of audience members couldn’t care less about the director, since the MCU films aren’t necessarily conducive towards seeing any significant degree of a distinct directorial vision.

Further, very few of these directors, however talented they might be,…

I can imagine a similar thing happened with Rian Johnson and The Last Jedi. It was so discordant relative to what happened in The Force Awakens, that it seemed as though there were elements of either miscommunication or people going off the reservation that it just didn’t jive at all.

Granted, I think the sequel…

M. Night fell off for a long time. The big 3 franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street) had been dead for nearly a decade (and were bad when they did reappear). Franchises like The Conjuring, Paranormal Activity, and Saw aren’t really associated with a single director or vision. Lastly,…

It’s really interesting because the average audience member of The Eternals wouldn’t know or care about Chloe Zhao because they haven’t watched, nor intend to watch, Nomadland (or any of her other films).

Sure, she won an Oscar, but for the MCU, that Oscar isn’t causing a flurry of additional ticket sales because…

This.

People often don’t grasp the sheer immensity of a $150m+ studio production. You’re talking about 500+ individual cast and crew members, excluding executives from the studio(s), production companies, distributors, etc.

While it’s not the director’s job to corral all of those varied entities, often times they end…

To play devil’s advocate, why should the contracts be guaranteed without incentives for actually performing on the field?

Most states have at-will employment, and even salaried and contract employees have to actually work in order to fulfill the terms of their contract. Even when it comes to injuries, depending on the…

I honestly think Lexus was in a no-win situation regardless of what they did with the LF-A.

It was always going to be a money-losing halo vehicle, so I think they decided to switch to a carbon-fiber construction to actually, ironically enough, justify the price, because at the somewhat original specifications, it…

Ditto, although I’m a few months away from hitting 31.

I have enough of a social life that I don’t see the need to broadcast it to strangers. Honestly, I get the sense that some of these kids are convinced that things they experience in their lives either didn’t happen or don’t count unless other people see it. No…

That’s true, but Southwest did give me (and I’m sure plenty of others) vouchers for when our flights were cancelled back in October (during their weekend of chaos).

In Southwest’s case, they didn’t even claim it was a weather-related event. Thankfully I was able to find a different flight (though my later arrival…