And they said, ‘We love it. We think Asimov himself would have completely embraced that,’” Goyer said.

I loved the movie for its emotional resolution, and I loved the village plot in the beginning, but I’ll agree that Anno doubled down on the mumbo jumbo to 3.0 and 3.0+1.0's detriment. The visuals make even less sense (the nondescript sea of red and the excess of vaporwave CGI), and the jargon was complete mishmash.…

I think it’s half and half. I think he saw how much people WANTED him to host, and he at least liked the IDEA of being in demand, but he’s also savvy enough to know that he could try to squeeze Sony for a pretty big payout, and as the process went on Burton and Sony both realized there wasn’t gonna be enough money or…

Now is a terrible time to start a CD ladder, as rates are so low they offer barely (if any) advantage over a normal high yield savings account (and frankly those are so bad right now they’re barely better than checking accounts). If you put your money in a non-no-penalty CD, there’s a good chance you’ll be locked into…

As you say, they didn’t need to set up Thanos and the Gauntlet saga any more than they needed to. In fact, many people were complaining that they were being set up TOO much and it was being distracting.

I went from an iPad 1 to a Mini for a few years and really loved the form factor, to the point where I trudged through reading American comics on them for years, but after I switched to a 10 inch iPad Pro, I don’t know if I can go back to an 8 inch or smaller form factor again. If they can further shrink the bezels so…

I think that’s oversimplifying it a bit. Yes, the MCU is not some super intricately laid out timeline, especially in the first phase or two, but by the end of Avengers it was clear that, if the franchise were to keep going, Thanos was going to be a major endgame (literally). That he appeared in less than 10 minutes of…

Is it just me but did the side bezels actually get larger?

I’ve always said that 99.9% of all movies (and TV shows) benefit from being set (or having a major setpiece set) around Christmastime. You automatically make your movie a perennial rewatch/restream, plus it gives the drama some extra weight.

Eh, the problem with that is the first Predator, being set in the present with those dudes, assumes that they were humanity’s best shot (in the 80s) of taking down a Predator. So they’re super roided up, plus also had giant guns, knives, and explosives to go up against the Predator’s heat vision, cloaking, what have…

True, and it’s not Die Hard (or Willis’) fault, that movie was pretty perfect too. That style of action and Willis as an action star is also a great archetype (the sarcastic but competent everyman in the wrong place at the wrong time), and one that arguably gave the action genre further legs, but it also helped kill…

How long since the last one? 12 years since Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, but that one was a prequel; 22 years since 1983's Return of the Jedi, to which it is the first proper sequel.

On the contrary, since I firmly believe we have yet to find the heir apparent to the bonkers archetype of Arnold Schwarzenegger*, they should just ditch this franchise altogether (and retroactively ditch the rest of the sequels). Predator 1 was perfect.

I firmly believe that the uber macho cast of the original Predator movie was just as, if not more so, important to the legacy of the franchise. All the other movies have been disappointing to me and some of them are lighter on the predator alien worldbuilding than others (I agree with you on that), but all of them…

Again, if I’m renting for over a year, though, to me it IS a sunk cost. That’s money I can’t ever withdraw until I move out, so if I’m a broke 20-something that put down that security deposit along with my 1st and last month upon signing, I’m gonna continue to be out that money until I move out. To me it’s just not…

It’s definitely annoying, but the cost of my free time, especially when I’m in the process of moving out of one place and moving into another place, is often more valuable than the work of following up on the last remaining 100 dollars of the deposit (or, as I said, even the last $2,000 dollars). What you do is great,…

Sorry, we don’t need to beat this dead horse further (you can have the last word if you want), but I still strongly disagree with this take.

This sounds like the correct answer. I’m a really annoying gamer type where I still like my AAA games to look “realistic” and while I really appreciate good art direction in lieu of production value, I admit I had mildly written off NMS when it originally came out because it looked too cartoony to me.

At this rate Daredevil is gonna show up and be influenced to take up his identity by the MCU Daredevil comic books he read as a kid.

It’s not a mistake, per se, but to me I think normal people shouldn’t be stressing out the security deposit, specifically spending a lot of time and/or money when moving out to get your entire deposit back.