Great set piece in a thoroughly mediocre movie: Tom Hanks learning what’s happening in his home country in The Terminal. Spielberg shoots it as an action scene, with Hanks frantically running around the different levels of the airport terminal to catch a glimpse of the news. The camera wanders far away from him to…

Tintin is a weird case in that I like the movie while also thinking it’s a pretty terrible adaptation of Tintin in some ways (among other things, it’s not particularly funny). I would argue that the great set piece in Tintin is the extended flashback with the pirate ship. It has this swooping, gravity-defying feel…

Goodman never even won an Emmy for Roseanne. His is for Studio 60. That is crazy.

Perez deserves better than this show. Somebody get her an actual showcase.

The best of Roseanne was terrific and different from anything else on network TV. Unfortunately it declined massively.

I believe auteur theory predicted that one day all major directors would get into feuds with fast food chains. I look forward to Fincher vs. Taco Bell.

If only that were true. I was trying to be funny based on what I saw as your valid objection. Sorry if I came across as a jerk.

I’m hoping the Errol Flynn theme is more Robin Hood/Sea Hawk and less statutory rape.

I found it weird in the Expanded Universe novels when Leia went full-out Jedi apprentice. She’s an experienced diplomat and military leader. I just don’t think she’d find the Jedi stuff that interesting. Maybe she would, like, audit a class every once in awhile just to keep Luke from whining at her.

The last time I went to Disney World I met a man holding a laminated spreadsheet with exact times not only for rides but for character photos, shopping, bathroom breaks, snacks, and (my personal favorite) “reasonable walking time.” He was already agitated because the monorail took three minutes longer than he…

That’s essentially the indictment in a nutshell. They built it without any clue about how building things actually works.

When the show started, yes. But we’re talking about Homer being 40 in the present day.

I fell several weeks behind watching this show and blazed through four right before this. And it was really . . . not worth it. I get the strong feeling that nobody behind this show could figure out why they wanted to tell this story, other than the fact that the setting was interesting and the book was hugely…

In TOS the Eugenics Wars were in the 1990s. Maybe Khan was into Korn?  

I get that argument and it does help build sympathy with the characters if we can understand their little obsession. Even an invention like Quidditch is basically just the sports we already know with magic thrown in, so you can make the parallel to soccer fans, etc.

I have this horrible vision of George Lucas promising his fortune to anyone sufficiently immersed in Buck Rogers and old time radio shows.

I always had the same problem with Star Trek, where characters often have these nostalgic obsessions - film noir, movie serials, Westerns, Sherlock Holmes, Gilbert and Sullivan - but only as long that nostalgic thing is pre-21st century. Does the Federation just really suck at coming up with new pop culture? Were…

“Isn’t it a whole different kind of blinkered nostalgia to imagine that the youth of 2045 will still be hung up on “Staying Alive” and Atari and, well, Spielberg movies?” I mean, I grew up in the ‘80s obsessed with a franchise inspired by 1930s sci fi serials and 1950s samurai movies, a toy line/cartoon show that was…

Yeah, I think Wan is a talented guy but every scene with Aquaman in Justice League convinced me that a full movie with him would be torture. Two hours of Dudebro, Meathead King of Atlantis might actually make me miss BvS.

In quality it’s basically a second tier John Hughes movie but it seems to be helping gay teens talk to their parents and peers so I’m happy it exists. I mean, when I came out to my parents they were thinking about, like, Leon on Roseanne.