I love Temple of Doom, I really do. It succeeds wonderfully at being the literal roller coaster ride it’s intended to be. And it accomplishes the impossible by having its awkwardly introduced cute kid be not only non-annoying, but a great character you want to know more about and spend time with. But I like dialogue.…

Agreed. Crystal Skull had many issues, but I enjoyed it more than Temple of Doom. I thought Doom was just unpleasant for the most part. 

Regarding the franchise’s future, boy, if only one of these movies had a young sidekick character who could take over as the main hero, played by an actor who’s currently universally beloved thanks to a return to the job after decades that got him a ton of awards. But what are the odds of that happening?

hahaha Mel Brooks if you’re a realist! Perfect!

I had forgotten that Dalton made reference to the marriage — I actually kinda dig that. It sort of feels like a reference to the older movie, it *could* be its own thing, you don’t really know; similar to how M is Judi Dench in two different iterations. (Or how Q is…

We’ll have to agree to strongly disagree that Temple of Doom is a better movie than Last Crusade. ToD had some good action sequences but the rest was cringingly bad. When I saw it in the theater in its first run, I was so hype after the clever opening sequence and was gutted by how bad it was after that.

That’s because there really is no reason for the Republicans to panic. Republican voters are in two camps right now: the ones who worship Trump as the second coming of Christ and would still vote for him if he did do that whole “shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue” thing, and the Republicans who hate Trump (like…

Thanks for this—what a great contribution to the discussion. I wish they’d pump you to write a ‘counter-point’ to this entire thing because your unique perspective of what it’s like to be in the industry now is pretty interesting. I’ve always enjoyed the ‘indy’ movement from My Dinner with Andre to the cool stuff…

They would sell a ton of them, but of course the markups on SUVs and trucks are higher.

A TV series is also more of an investment in time, whereas movie theater trips are (usually) a one-time go. If I’m going to pay to see a movie, I’m going to make sure it’s something I really (or others really) want to see. And I prefer to watch some genres at home, some at a theater. Big action films or sci-fi I’ll…

That’s...a reach. Americans have been gravitating toward larger vehicles for far longer than government EV mandates have been in place. This is purely about profit margins. Car companies are not pushing high profit vehicles in order to finance the EV transition. They push high profit vehicles because they are looking…

The problem isn’t just sales volumes, it’s profit per unit.

20K Fiestas isn’t even rounding error, and a waste of time for a company that sells almost *1 million* far more profitable pickup trucks a year. You can bet every one of those Fiestas sold at a loss. Footprint-based CAFE was the death knell for most small cars in the US, they no longer needed to sell them at a loss to…

There is nowhere near enough demand for those in the US at the prices they would have to charge to maintain margins that make Wall Street happy. That is the bottom line. They can get away with it in the rest of the world because the governments make owning large vehicles unaffordable for the average person via taxation…

What is your definition of ‘small’. Do you not count the Impreza, Corolla, Civic, Mazda 3? What about the litany of sub-compact* SUVs...HRV, Crosstrek, Trax, CX-30 etc. You can argue those aren’t ‘cars’ but to me they are. Silhouette is not important to me when defining what a ‘car’ is.

He’s not wrong. Ford is in the business of making money, not vehicles. And small cheap vehicles are disproportionately expensive to make than large expensive vehicles for a wide variety of factors. So until they can make money selling smaller vehicles, they are not going to make smaller vehicles. And absent external…

I mean, I guess in this case small is very subjective. But if you include the Mini there are a bunch of “small cars” available here. From the Corolla, Civic, Elantra, GTI, Jetta, Mazda3, Bolt, Impreza, Rio, Prius, Forte, Sentra, Versa and Leaf to others.

The US incentivized the wrong tech as the transition point for EVs. PHEV/Hybrids would have been the place to start. Lower the demand on fossil fuels and continue to build out Charging Infrastructure while getting people comfortable. Taxes/Registration based on Gross Weight helps as well.

No they really didn’t. If you don’t sell at least 100k unit a year, it’s really hard to justify building it, unless you also have massive parts commonality with another vehicle (which is the only reason Lincoln still survives).

There are multiple other brands out there that aren’t Ford that will sell you that car, not hard to find them either. 

So it wasn’t “styled” by Will.i.am?