DC movies have generally sucked. Rip the band aid off and get them going in a new direction. I think hiring Gunn is a massive win for DC.

As you are new to film history, let’s go over some quotes from your Cameron-doubting forebears. “Why make a sequel to Alien? The first one was great!” “A sequel to that robot movie? Who asked for this?” “Who would want to see a movie about a hundred year old boat?”

He clearly wasn’t as important. Less “hated me less”, more “noticed me less”.

Interesting. I found his outsider’s perspective refreshing, especially considering most other late night show hosts are American.

“So no justice, no peace... except when there’s a Tesla in my parking space?”

A recent A. V. Club article on Bourdain is facing criticism from readers who don’t want to watch a stupid fucking video.

Norm had a double header that day, as he’d been on Howard Stern’s show before his appearance later in the day with Letterman, and like Dave, Stern took apart Ohlmeyer, Lorne Michaels, and NBC’s top executives like you would disassemble a cheap Ikea desk, with Norm just saying, “But he’s a good man, Howard!” (And…

I think I said this over at I09 last week, but I’ll repeat this here:

Apparently not a huge amount of personal disappointments since playing at the Oscars was “the most traumatizing” thus far.

To the people from Warner Bros trying to investigate his claims.

But she was a child when Vought began creating superheroes like Homelander. She couldn’t have been behind this scheme, even if she kept it going when she became vice president of the company.

“Abusive treatment” is a meaninglessly vague term that he refuses to clarify.

“I can easily believe that Whedon is a douchebag”

I use my 80cm Schwerer Gustav for driveway interlopers, also have a GAU8 in case they want to try and walk across my grass. No replacement for displacement.

That was a proposed spinoff after Cheers ended - Sam gets his PI license and goes into business as Mayday Investigations. IIRC it was supposed to be called High Hard One.

We got Fraiser instead.

“In the first breath, you get boilerplate language, something you might hear on both Nancy Drew on The CW and on HBO’s True Detective, the kind of sentence that could be flung at both Harriet the Spy and Sam Malone.”

Because it’s the right character transformation as determined by propulsive narrative development. It doesn’t have to be “right”—it just has to fit, and it fits. Oh, how it fits! For all of this show’s dynamite shootouts and setpieces, the writers also know and develops the characters extremely well.

Yes. You should check out the article you just commented on wherein writer Donna Bowman mentions that very thing.

Rhea Seehorn is amazing as Kim.  

I once had a boss who said she hated books. I was thinking, “All books? Every book ever, in every genre?”