Fwiw, I’m sorry to see you go. It does feel like the passing of an Old Guard (that I, like many around here, am watching with trepidation) and we’re losing even more tried and true talent like yourself. And I can understand where you’re coming from with the grading thing; if you only give an A sparingly, then that A…

And strangely I can hear that very specific Michael Shannon voice asking for an idea from the crowd.  

I’m not sure I’d automatically think the crew would want extra hours. Wasn’t IATSE demanding limited or at least more reasonable work hours? As others have pointed out, working on a movie in a hot desert might not present the best working conditions and might necessitate more reasonable hours, despite premium wages…

I don’t know, when you are in the middle of a desert waiting for someone to just get to work, for me the allure of the extra hours would start waning pretty fast.

I can tell you from experience as a crewmember: No. No, we would not want that.  We already work enough long ass hours and being forced to do so even more is not worth the overtime that we may not even get anyway.

It seems to be tailor-made for the fans in the late ‘90s who fantasized about a David Fincher Batman movie. Nothing wrong with that, but the whole “Batman is totally dark and serious and everyone still thinks he’s a campy figure with goofy one-liners” thing has been dead for an entire generation. Nobody thinks of…

All he’d have to do is wear a hoodie in a darkly-lit room and the effect would be instantaneous. After all, if David Lynch can do it every morning...

Theron’s description of the events paired with her apology (because of course she’s apologizing) sets you up for typical “actors being fussy dickheads with each other” nonsense, but it really does seem like Tom Hardy was a completely inconsiderate asshole who revelled in disrespecting the cast and crew by wasting…

This is somewhat worse than I thought regarding Tom Hardy’s unprofessionalism & George Miller enabling it. Charlize Theron if anything is somewhat generous about this in an interview on the Fury Road blu ray, saying that while she usually “isn’t very method” some days shooting when their characters were supposed to be…

Can we just get McDiarmid to do daily weather reports as Palpatine? “Oh, I’m afraid it will only be partly sunny this afternoon... and then there will be rain moving in as darkness falls, as it always must. It is inevitable.”

What if her appearance was as a ghost haunting him, like Auggie? Could be we’ll see Sophie/Goff in S2 in that way.

For a long time they were going to make a new Star Trek movie with a different cast and era (and they still might). I’m honestly surprised they decided to make a fourth movie with the Kelvin cast at all. 

Yeah, but that’s why mid-range budget studio movies have all but disappeared in the last ten years. The way the industry sees it, there’s no point in making any movie unless it stands a chance of making all the money in the world.

Huh, guess size didn’t matter in this case.

I was referring to Sportsmaster.

I’m familiar with the Bullseye series.

Most entertainers, but especially comedians, are more conservative on economics than many of them will let on. Actors probably tend to be more left-leaning economically (SAG), but music (on an individual artist level) and standup are pretty tightly bolted on to free market economics in general. Socialist-leaning…

Seinfeld has been unabashed of his comic fandom since way back when though. He even displays Superman in his set.

And the fact that he’s depicted that way is basically rooted in a goof.

Sportsmaster's whole schtick is literally sports equipment tho. He's basically an evil gym teacher. He might blow up a bank by throwing a foot ball, or challenge Batman with a javelin. I read a comic once where he captured the hero with a hockey net. 

Dear young nerd, I am an old nerd. I did not like football players at school because they were mean. I eventually (and probably later than I should have) realized that not all football players are mean, In fact, the very best football players are all extraordinarily smart and have to put in an amount of dedication…