I read somewhere once that a big reason that Tony Stark is out of the suit so much in Iron Man 3 is because Marvel kind of put their foot down. Since if they were going to be paying him tens of millions of dollars they actually wanted to see him on screen doing stuff. Not just doing voice acting while a CG suit flies…

It's hard to know from my perspective but are their people out there who are into comics who aren't aware of Jack Kirby's role in creating so many of these great characters?

That is an interesting point about Kirby's post Marvel stuff. I have never read any of his DC stuff but I have read a ton of those 60's Lee/Kirby comics. And even with Marvel, Kirby co-creates Captain America in 1940 and then his next super popular creation comes 21 years later with Fantastic Four. Yes I know he…

I there anyone out there with even a basic familiarity with Marvel comics character who isn’t aware that Jack Kirby was hugely important in the creation of many of the classic golden and silver aged characters? It’s not like this is some hidden secret of Marvel comics.

I haven't seen the new season yet but otherwise this is actually a pretty solid list. The only change I might make is remove the pig fucking episode, which I thought was stupid and can't see ever happening (otherwise people would be doing things and blackmailing the PM all the time. And I would replace it with The…

It’s more like all those people who used to complain about Ticketmaster and those $50 service fees are now going to complain about the artist who charges $300. I think a lot of artists probably liked that TM was the villain that people hated instead of them. Because if people hate you, you lose fans.

I wonder if there might be a bunch of artists that are kind of worried about this? Because now if you go to buy a ticket and it is $250 up front with no breakdown of who gets what, a lot of people are going to blame the artists for price gouging.

The obvious story is one where it is revealed that Short Round retired to coastal Oregon and he is actually Data's dad.

Doesn’t that kind of go against the whole idea of collective bargaining? Where the power of the whole union works together to make sure everyone gets a good contract. If specific studios or production companies could come up with their own agreements, what is stopping them from just making deals with their most…

Darth Maul and Boba Fett were both stupid. Maul because he somehow survived when Qui-Gon didn’t and because it was some dumb surprise twist in Solo for people who didn’t watch the cartoon. Boba Fett was dumb because for a giant badass he goes out in the dumbest way possible, then comes back to life and decides to be a…

I remember reading in Kevin Hart’s autobiography that he did a pilot for a show created by Judd Apatow where he was roommates with Jason Segel. This was in 2001 after Freaks and Geeks but before Undeclared. It also starred Amy Poehler and January Jones. I would absolutely check out that show. And there are probably a…

I remember thinking during the last strike how the networks must be sitting on thousands of hours worth of pilot episodes for shows that never made it on TV. Some of them must be good, and some probably have big stars before they were famous. It would be cool if they did like pilot night and showed some of those…

The one thing I remember about the Ed Norton Hulk movie is how he managed to get a script approval clause added to his contract. I think it was because he was a relatively big star and the movie was developed before Marvel Studios was a thing. So I think even if he had been a been a good fit for the MCU, I can't…

I guess being friends with Adam Sandler doesn't pay like it used to. Especially if it isn't guaranteed that he will let you be in his movies anymore.

At least the Golden Globes people are now completely clear about the fact that they are in it for the money. Just owning that is probably better. Now if celebrities decide they don’t want to take part in something, presumably for free, that makes other people money that will be interesting.

That show was so good, and looked expensive as hell. Although I think I remember reading at the time that one of the episodes they dumped on Saturday night had the lowest number of viewers of any first run show episode of any show on NBC ever.

I saw Battlefield Earth in theaters too. I was in university at the time and a friend of mine talked me into going by saying he heard the effects were good (they weren't) and that a girl on his residence floor was going and she was interested in me (she wasn't and I can't even remember if she went).

I watched T2 recently and while the CG is very impressed what seemed really crazy to me was the Arnold motor bike jumps off the bridge scene wasn't really and was done with traditional effects.

The Light and Magic documentary on Disney+ is really excellent. It does a great job of showing how much work modelling and composite shots and matte paintings took and how quickly they moved to being a CG company once they realized how much of the effects work in Jurassic Park could be done with computers.

That Iron Sheik documentary is really good. It's crazy to think that back in the day wrestlers basically had to maintain character anytime they were in public and he lost his job at least partially because he didn't. That would be like if Josh Brolin had gotten fired from playing Thanos because he was spotted out…