I’m tempted to write a really long piece here, as I spent years in the energy industry helping companies develop strategic plans around shifting prices.

Don’t be jealous, Patton.

Instead of banning him from the Oscars for 10 years, the Academy should have mandated that at every Oscars for the next 10 years, a randomly chosen audience member gets to slap Smith.

I think you’re misinterpreting what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that the recent rise in gas prices isn’t corporations suddenly becoming more greedy than they were before. They’re always making decisions with respect to maximizing shareholder profit; recent rises in gas prices are a reflection of the same calculus…

You’re just reinforcing my point. If oil companies thought it was somehow in their longer-term interest to lower prices, they could and would, even if it meant investors would lose out for a while. I don’t know how they determine what their long-term interests are, and neither do you, but apparently “patriotism,”…

“ companies can and do decide to take a profit hit in order to keep prices down”

Sort of. The point is that companies can and do decide to take a profit hit in order to keep prices down, but oil companies don’t seem to be doing that. On the other hand, the only reason they “should” do that is because of the massive sense of entitlement Americans have about cheap gasoline. 

“It’s almost all a function of supply and demand, a force more powerful than both the Illuminati and the presidential administration combined.”

Which is unfair. He was amazing in Hail Caesar!, and Solo was a failure for plenty of reasons but Alden wasn’t one of them.

YOU DARE SUGGEST MODOK?!

He looks quite a bit like Zeke Stane (son of Jeff Bridges’ character from the original Iron Man). That would be my guess.

I mean he has a fitting head for MODOK. Doubt that’s where they’re going - but they should. 

You had me at Parker Posey.

Oh I agree 100%.  Central Perk looked like it should have been in Omaha.

Not a Wes Anderson film, but the trailer sure makes it look like one.

“Hold on to your potatoes!”

Are they going to give me Ke Huy Quan reprising his role as Short Round and having the chance to point out how messed up everything that happened to him while with Indy was? 

I dunno, if Indiana Jones doesn’t fuck Han Solo, I don’t think it’s going to be delivering everything everybody wants

I thought it was building to something with the multiverse since that’s been a prominent aspect in so many storylines since Spider-man far from home (the first post endgame movie) but they cheesed it so hard with Dr. Strange 2 and none of that stuff came to a head at all or was really even related in any way.

C’mon Sam... just, really? Suicide Squad were prisoners that Waller used to go on suicide missions. Thunderbolts were Baron Zemo’s Masters of Evil in different costumes posing as superheroes in order to gain power and control. The closest they came to being like a suicide squad was during Civil War I when they were…