They were two separate cartoons from Rankin and Bass: The Hobbit and The Return of the King. The Hobbit was a pretty good condensed adaptation, as cartoons of that era go. Return of the King sort of assumed you’d seen Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings (which only tells the story through Helm’s Deep, IIRC), so it was really…

Well, everybody except Jimmy.

My long-standing lie of “looking like Leonardo DiCaprio” is coming true!

Close. He only went back in time to get Tyler Perry.

I think Steve and Marty are really good when they restrain themselves a bit and play more human characters (like in The Spanish Prisoner and, oddly enough, Mars Attacks!), and they’re both doing that in Only Murders in the Building. It’s a nice surprise.

Very well said, Yellowfoot. To me, Ragnarok, Infinity War, and Endgame are the real trilogy of Thor movies. No character goes through more development in those films than Thor. Many of his losses in Ragnarok are repaired in IW, but many are not (Odin’s still dead, Asgard’s still gone) and many new losses follow (more…

You buried the lede!

“There was a lot of things right about this film and it’s why it has endured. Hanks, Davis, Petty, most definitely Megan Cavanagh, and yes O’Donnell and Madonna were fine in the outfield, they were fun to watch.”

“I hate when they get attached to me like that.”

Yeah, but it’s a joke based not only on the whole Scar Jo thing but also on the idea that Anderson doesn’t cast non-white women. But he does. (Not a lot, obviously, but he does.)

I get that. It is weird. I wasn’t bothered so much as baffled by that character. So much of the non-dog dialogue is already subtitled that I don’t see why the movie needed any of the humans to be non-Japanese or to speak English: if you don’t like subtitles, that isn’t your movie.

“Good on him for finally casting a woman of color in one of his films.”

PREACH!

IIRC, Marvel actually incorporated some of the elements of that “What If Captain America Were Revived Today?” issue into continuity. To explain away some of Cap’s comics from the ‘40s and ‘50s (which would have occurred after Steve Rogers had been frozen, according to the early ‘60s retcon in Avengers #4), they…

Seems like more of an M. Night Shyamalan story.

“Though it feels a little incongruous to have a white woman lead this “love letter” by wailing on Japanese people for the majority of the film . . .”

I think Suttree could actually work as a Wes Anderson film, especially the sections about Gene Harrogate, although his story would be great in almost anyone’s hands. McCarthy is rarely funny, but Gene’s parts of that book are hilarious.

Sempiternal Torrent and Noisome Abominations both sound like metal bands.

They died there against a myriad birthed from beyond the edge of all prospects, bent beneath horrors unremembered by time and lost amidst a sky sprent with stars no pilgrim would dare count, no prostitute dare curse. A ragged troupe silhouetted upon their wizened coursers, bivouacked against the sempiternal torrent…