You’ve never seen Arrival.

Oh, thank you for that! I was trying to remember a really good ScarJo role and it was Lost in Translation. She was sublime. My only problem with that movie was believing she could be married to a schlub like Giovanni Ribisi.

Flying Blind. She was so fucking sexy it was amazing. One piece of dialog I remember:

I think between Perks of Being a Wallflower and Bling Ring Emma has demonstrated that she can act. She just picks terrible parts (Noah, The Circle, etc). But playing herself in This is the End may be the best thing she’s ever done.

Disagree with you on one point, every actor I’ve ever heard interviewed say it’s much easier, and a lot more fun, to play the villain. It’s a mindset, the villain has to believe he is the hero of his own story. Thanos is a great example of that.

And The Losers and the criminally under-rated Push.

Yeah, all I ever see is Meryl Streep acting, or Meryl Streep doing an accent and acting. Never the character.

Chris Evans has talent. Watch him in The Losers, he has great comedic timing. You can see it in Captain America, but it’s more subdued.

Not true, he can act, he just chooses not to. Watch his early stuff, Taps, Risky Business, Cocktail, Rain Man, Days of Thunder. Formula movies, but he carries them with sheer charisma. Then he shows he can act, in stuff like Born of the Fourth of July and Magnolia. And remember he got an Oscar for Born of the Fourth…

I am SO with you on Seth Rogen. He can’t act, he’s just himself in every single movie. That’s why I liked ‘This is the End’; it had my favorite person in the world (Emma Watson) hit my least favorite person in the world (Seth Rogen) in the face with a shovel.

Have fun with that. The Great Lakes are so big if they were in another part of the world they’d be called ‘seas’. Ontario is big enough to kill you if you do something stupid, and Superior is so big it doesn’t care how smart you are.

At this point, Musk has become techno-Trump; he just opens his mouth and weird, inane shit spews forth. Does he expect anyone to believe any of these random mutterings?

Weird trivia: McQueen’s character has the same name as my late father. Which is not a common name. The family always chokes up a bit over this movie.

Steve McQueen would like a word with you.

Ellis did Iron Man: Extremis, and it was one of the best Iron Man books ever.

Time to pull this out of the archives:

You’ve got a lot a valid criticisms, and the novel of the movie addresses a lot of them. Pryce’s character gets a backstory, for instance. So yeah, more interesting on paper than ended up on film.

I have a soft spot for Tomorrow Never Dies, it was a decent Bond entry, handicapped only by an overly long final act. Also, I was a finalist in a ‘Bond Impression’ contest they held in Canada that year, so I have a bunch of swag from that movie.

Don’t forget we still have Bo Bichette on the IL in triple-A. If he comes up this year (and he probably will) the sparks will really fly.

You mean Lee assumes responsibility for those words? Because I bought the first 6 issues of ‘The Avengers’ as a masterworks edition, and, geez, they’re awful! The dialog and plotting are stilted and poorly-timed, and in one frame he gets Bruce Banner and Don Drake (Thor’s early alter-ego) crossed-up!