Does he actually have a hand in creating impressive stuff, though?

Because I’m pretty sure he’s just a money guy, and while we could certainly call him clever in his investing the extent to which his great intelligence was brought to bear on any given problem of inventing sort of begins and ends with the money.

And…

You could cut Alfa Romeo and Toro Rosso and I’m not even sure the teams would notice.

Uh excuse me but as the extremely necessary and beloved movie Solo demonstrated Han Solo was always a hero, at all times, always and forever, and so he never had to grown into a hero or have any character growth at all because he is actually always the same guy always total hero always.

Man Solo is so great. So glad it…

I’m so sick of being told that a new female-superhero movie is a great stride forward for women and I go and see it and it’s the same old shit except the camera points at butts less.

If Captain Marvel was a great stride forward for feminism it wouldn’t have been framed around Nick Fury’s character arc. When Marvel…

I just sat there in my seat, fuming. I needed this movie to be good. It had so many good comedic actors, a big budget, a great pedigree, and a legion of anti-fans who needed to be destroyed down to their component atoms.

But there wasn’t a single funny joke. Actors who spent their lives being howling funny opened their…

Isn’t the source code for Icewind Dale just... missing?

... yeah. Icewind Dale II, to be precise. You guys reported on it a few years ago.

Does is still count as a step forward if the show is cancelled before it even airs?

“This is a clever touch”

No.

It isn’t.

To quote the infallible Dave Strider:

Last time somebody went around claiming something was dead they mostly just interrupted a lot of church services and kept leaving their damn lamp lying around. In the day!

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is it a 17776 reference? he wondered to himself. I mean it certainly could be.

You don’t have to read it, you just have to watch him in any of the special features for the The Hobbit where he, along with literally everyone else, is so fucking miserable. He’s there with his memories of LOTR, which yes used green screen (he didn’t shoot his balrog stuff in a real cave) but also built lavish sets,…

My plan - in the imaginary fantasy where I am famous and hold a Q&A - is to bring along Tanisha. Tanisha will be at the Q&A half an hour before it starts. She’ll hear your question first, and if she approves, she’ll give you a numbered card. When the Q&A begins she will call you number like you’re at a bingo parlour -…

‘300 years isn’t that long’ Well it is a long time as far as your lifespan is concerned, but more pointedly this number relates to the half-life of the cesium-129. The half-life of the plutonium-239 used in RMBK reactors - which the Chernobyl explosion threw as far as Sweden and of which there is about 32…

“A rich woman dared lean over Beyonce.”

Sigh. In a perfect world they would adapt the Golden Compass (properly this time) and stop. In a pretty decent world they’d adapt the Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife and it would be pretty great - and then they’d stop.

But they won’t stop.

There’s no way we can be free of having to endure The Amber Spyglass all over…

Since I can’t do anything about the horrors going on in the word I will just volubly complain that Denethor is a steward, not a king, and that’s one of the major plot points in that movie so there’s no excuse not to know that. It’s not obscure nerd trivia it’s a big deal in Best-Picture Winning mainstream hit Return…

Children of Earth was one of the best things ever made for television. Miracle Day was one of the worst pieces of shit I’ve ever sat through, a show staggeringly inept on every front whose plot was powered again and again by people demonstrating the most unnatural, abnormal thought processes and nobody doing anything…

Yeah the shift to the three hour blockbuster has less to do with changing audiences tastes and a lot more to do with quasi anti-trust violations. (To white: movie theatres, especially up here in Canada, virtually eliminated all competition in their regions and became fiefdoms in their own right - at the same moment…

It’s not, though. At all.

I hate that line so fucking much, because mainstream flat-earthism is a recent phenomenon. Most people 500 years ago knew the earth was round because, well, you can see it, especially if you lived near an ocean.

What most people weren’t certain of was other land masses, and distant - whether it was possible to sail…