You’re doing two things: overestimating the cost of physical media and distribution of that media, and ignoring how expensive (both with and without inflation) games were.

I’m 32, so I’m squarely in the PS1, N64, Dreamcast era. When the PS1 dropped, AAA games (of the time) started at $50. This was back in 1995. With…

I’m sure he was having a good time with the role, but once you got past the obvious “why is there a goth chick in the goddamned Navy” question, there was always the “why is a darling old Britisher who looks like he got sprung from a P.G. Wodehouse novel the M.E. on an American armed-forces cop show?” issue

The only way this car would be worth $250k is if Shepard drove it on the damn moon.

I assume he’s going for quiet intensity but I never feel the actual intensity part.

I think Dune, Part 1 can lay a lot of the blame on COVID for its underwhelming box office performance.

Original properties can do well, but with the budget inflation modern movies have, even an $80m movie needs to clear between $200m-$250m worldwide to break even. 2021's Dune, a movie with a bigger name director, with bigger stars, and with a big sci-fi IP as the foundation, has barely cleared $400m worldwide.

Maybe…

Black KKKlansman and Tenet only got the reviews they got because of brilliant directors and interesting narratives. Even with a Golden Globe nomination for KKKLansman, very few people would say that John David Washington has been the best part of anything he’s been in.

Also, he’s Denzel’s son. That carries a hell of a…

John David Washington is fortunate that he’s the son of his father, because nothing he’s been in aside from the show “Ballers” on HBO has been good because of his performance. Black KKKlansman was good because of Spike Lee and the historical narrative. Tenet (a movie I didn’t enjoy but can understand why people did)…

Hear me out: John David Washington just isn’t a draw, regardless of his father.

The two biggest movies he’s ever done — Black KKKlansman and Tenet — got a lot of press and were relatively successful because of the subject matter and the directors (Spike Lee and Christopher Nolan, respectively). Anything else he’s been…

If I’m not mistaken, the ire surrounding the Chris Pratt incident was that he made that post on Mother’s Day that specifically mentioned his current wife, his mom, and his mother-in-law. Which is wonderful...except for the fact that he has a child (with developmental disorders no less) with his ex, Anna Faris (and she…

The issue you’re ignoring is that the very design of the game, especially at the competitive level, in some ways necessitates that grind, especially when discussing specific Pokemon that define the meta of the tiers they’re in.

In other words, you can’t separate tactical concerns (what moves to make while in battle)…

The sad part is how so many people who responded don’t know what the word “ponder” means...

Perhaps it’s splitting hairs, but there’s a conception of something being “leaked” as in reference to it being surreptitiously recorded or documented by someone with a vested interest in getting a juicy quote, even if the comments were made during something that was ostensibly open to the public. There’s also the…

The roles he takes (or have been offered) have him as this brooding tough guy...and he’s only 5'10". It’s discordant (and it’s the same issue that Kit Harrington has, who’s shorter), because one definition of being brooding (and one I find more compelling than merely being sullen) is being menacing, and they’re too…

The problem is that so much modern-day spy stuff just isn’t visually stimulating.

SIGINT is pretty boring to watch, hacking usually gets embellished to shit (save for something like Mr. Robot), and the paramilitary aspects of spying are now usually taken on by PMCs.

The other thing is that Cold War spying was…

The funny thing is that Richard Madden has now played a spy/bodyguard (or at least the partner of one) of some sort in 3 different roles, none of them particularly good: Bastille Day (with Idris Elba), Bodyguard, and now this.

I’ve got to give it to his agent, he’s still getting booked even though his run on Game of…

Even in non-abuse situations, it’s incredibly common for people who have gone through a traumatic event to act in a manner that they’re accustomed to acting, simply because of the comfort present in maintaining some semblance of a routine.

You hit the nail on the head.

A broken finger sounds immediately painful, but through andrenaline, shock, and alcohol consumption, people have walked through far more serious injuries for a longer time than a mere broken finger.

I am heterosexual, but I have met several gay men who have made me think that they are lucky to be gay. I would never ask a gay man if he feels lucky to be gay, but one has expressed that to me. I once knew a short unattractive man who told me he is gay, and I felt so much relief for him. He really is better off being…

The Star Wars Holiday Special is squarely in the territory of, “So Bad I Want to Watch Just to Ponder How Something This Bad Could Ever Be Made by Sober People”.

We know how and why this game was made (old stars needing a quick paycheck, and unscrupulous game devs with more money than sense needing a resume boost). The…