It depends on what you liked about Peter Jackson’s King Kong. Were you most attracted to the fantastic battles, like the dual T-Rex fight, and other effects-laden, scary elements like the bug fight? Were you most engaged when they were on the island?

I never saw The Next Best Thing, but I remember ads for it making it look VERY much like a Julie Roberts-ish rom-com even though the ads also make it clear that the plot involves her having a baby with a gay man. I wondered where it could possibly go in the last act—they wouldn’t have him change teams, that would be…

Alpaca-riding is gold, Jerry! Gold!

Firstly, second!

* Ewan McGregor proving he’s a true bohemian by singing a few bars of ‘The Sound of Music’ in Moulin Rouge!

I suppose that’s true--I’m a guy, but my breasts are also ridiculously large and in need of reducing.

I signed up for the newsletter, and I still get popups asking me to sign up for the newsletter. It. Never. Ends.

Yep, same here, this is ‘my’ King Kong. I remember watching it on TV (probably its TV premiere) and finding the island scenes so intense that when they’re in New York and Kong sees the Twin Towers and they momentarily change to the two mountain peaks on the island I thought, “No! Don’t go back, that place is too scary!…

Huh. One of the things I did during quarantine was convert all my old CD’s to mp3's, and one of them was the Chris Gaines album. I had no idea it wasn’t available anywhere! 

I remember that Caroline in the City, and Lawrence was amazing in that! I ended up watching her resulting sitcom Fired Up for a while but it sort of petered out after a reasonably ok start. Also it had Mark Feuerstein in it, and it wasn’t good enough to overcome my (irrational?) dislike of Mark Feuerstein.

Returns was great all the way through the airplane crash scene, and then that’s basically it. The airplane crash is still my favorite action sequence from any film involving Superman. Then he... lifts an island, nearly dies and creeps around Lois’ house.

YES. I immediately thought, “Is that the same cabin Banner was in at the end of Incredible Hulk?” I was going to re-watch the Hulk scene to find out, but... haven’t yet

Every time I’m reminded Daikatana exists, I remember that the game’s sidekick is named Superfly Johnson. And I’m once again amazed at how dumb it was. 

One time at a full service gas station (because I’m fucking old), the guy working the pumps filled up my car with the engine running. At the time, I was a Junior dating the second-hottest girl in the Senior class (there was a vote by her class while they were in the auditorium tallied by the teachers). I was punching…

But the troll comes running up to the car YELLING at my elderly mother that she is facing the wrong way and she needs to turn the car around RIGHT NOW.

Here is the sum total of experiences Anakin has in the films that might reasonably explain his turn before he actually turns:

I don’t think they did live in the same country, at least from an information perspective. If you look at what they read on the internet, and what they watch on Fox News, OAN, etc., it’s not at all the same as the rest of the U.S. (and world).

I certainly know what statutory rape is, and plying someone underage with drugs and booze and then taking sexually compromising pictures of her is... not statutory rape. It’s likely multiple felonies, including 18 U.S.C. § 2251, Sexual Exploitation of Children, but it’s not statutory rape.

The article doesn’t say she was raped, so I don’t know where you’re getting that. Photos of her as a child, even if she’s drugged, would hurt the person releasing the photos a great deal more than they would hurt her career. Which is what the OP said. The OP asked how the photos could possibly destroy her career, and…

Apparently I’m the only one assuming there’s something else sketchy about the photos, like she’s in blackface or something