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.

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…

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

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

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…

Hill Street Blues another in that same era. Ditto Seinfeld Chronicles which went on to become something really big ... on the tip of my tongue ... : )

Seinfeld, Crazy ex Girlfriend

Its run reminds me of Wayward Pines, another oddball dystopian show doomed by its prolonged preproduction that led the cast contracts to expire & it would have been too expensive to extend/ renegotiate them. Wayward Pines tried to get around it by doing a time jump & just hiring a new cast! That however was not a good…

Yep, a very low-rated series being given a chance to find an audience was rare enough to be newsworthy when it happened. Cheers is one of the best-known examples. I’m having a hard time thinking of others.

ugh yes my bad ON the wagon.

I can not wait for the Flashpoint timeline reset for this all to settle. It’s clear they’re going to pick and choose from the DC material that has worked and discard/soft reboot the ones that didn’t.

I really wish Affleck took the offer to direct Man of Steel. It would have been so much better (as long as Affleck…

A lot of that territorial-ness comes from the fans, not the everyday people that actually go to work for these multinational conglomerates.

BATMAN: I can’t come. I’m sick. *cough*

Honestly, I think there’s some “a rising tide lifts all boats” thinking going on here. Good superhero films make people excited about superhero films. Bad superhero films feed fatigue for the genre. I’m guessing it’s only diehard fans of each company who care about the difference between DC and Marvel; there’s…

I am happy to accept Superman’s poop fetish as canon. I mean, he has sex with humans, who are a different species. Of COURSE he’s into some freaky shit. If Martha knew only the half of it, she would be so ashamed…