I bet you’re fun at parties...

Didn’t Danny get grounded by NASA for falling off the wagon and getting arrested? I’m pretty sure he joined Helios because he had no other option.

I can’t be arsed with the whole Danny storyline either but to be fair, it’s not like the idea of an astronaut acting completely fucking loopy over a love triangle isn’t without precedent...

I disagree. If anything, with the current price of fuel and growing environmental concerns pushing people towards alternative means of transportation and/or electric cars there has never been a better time to consider introducing automobiles into a balanced diet. 

“You’re making a pretty big assumption there. Gunn was already a fairly successful small budget genre filmmaker before the MCU. The Russos had a good TV career.”

It’s not just Hollywood jobs either. The MCU has been responsible for thousands of jobs here in Australia alone and not just on set. CGI, Effects, design etc. are all outsourced these days across the world and big budget spectacles like your Marvels and your Bonds do a lot of location shooting as well, flooding local…

She’s had 20+ years of acting in western productions ranging from Sunshine to Star Trek to Crazy Rich Asians, The Lady, Memoirs of a Geisha and Shang-Chi. Not to mention Crouching Tiger which got a massive boost on the fact that Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun Fat were becoming recognisable stars in the West. Tomorrow…

Yeah but TV shows for grown-ups on the other hand: it’s never been better!

The Sopranos > Goodfellas

Not to mention her husband is a Goonie

Yeah, I’m not sure if your 20 year old Miss Malaysia 1983 (and also the winner of the highly coveted ‘Miss Moomba’ pageant in Melbourne) is going to be great casting as a grandmother.

I put forward a similar point in a discussion about whether there was any worth in continuing to produce Bond films - funnily enough also using EEAAO as the example of an genuinely exciting under-the-radar action film that might not have existed were it not for Bond (i.e Michelle Yeoh first being introduced to Western…

Logan *is* a Western!

These days for the cost of around 10 trips to the cinema for 2 people you can get a half decent no-name brand 65" screen and 5.1 system.

Yeah but Eddie needed to die a hero’s death. Vecna’s killings were ritual sacrifice - simply dying in the Upside Down isn’t enough, otherwise the magic number 4 would have been reached before Season 11 had even kicked off - and to have Eddie go out that way would not only completely negate his redemptive arc but also…

Just the other week,  For All Mankind had a character give out a London phone number in a scene set in the early 90's and they indeed went with the correct ‘071' area code for the era as opposed to the subsequent ‘0171' or modern day ‘020'

Details matter!

In Australia swimming pools are so tightly regulated that if you want to have one in your back garden you have to have the fencing and security setup of a SuperMax prison lest some wandering child drowns.
If we were naturally bouyant, this wouldn’t be an issue.

Even though I absolutely love PJ Harvey I find it a bit too anachronistic

TO be fair Stranger Things may have managed to pull the heartstrings twice now with ‘When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die’ but Michael Mann totally slayed them with the tear-jerking use of an early Moby song when he closed ‘Heat’ with the wee bald weirdo’s ‘God Moving Over The Face of the Water’

Agreed.

Doom Patrol does it far better - most notably beating up a bunch of lederhosen-wearing fascists to Dead Kennedy’s ‘Nazi Punks Fuck Off!’

As much of a crush as I had on Kate Bush when I was growing up,