“She also said at the time that Cohen encouraged her to put her finger up his butt in the film’s final scene...”

I liked the idea of Quantumania - take a hero who’s woefully underprepared to face that kind of epic conflict (practically) by themselves and throw them right in the middle of it and see how they cope - but the execution just wasn’t there. We know how well Rudd works as the group punching bag in an ensemble cast, so…

To think, they could have just offered him Free Airfare for Life*.

I caught this on first viewing in the theater. But, I was pretty familiar with this history well before the book was written. I chalked up this quick flash as the tortured imagination of Oppenheimer upon hearing the news. That was his suspicion of how she died. Therefore, in color.

You say you read the book, so you’re already aware of this, but Oppenheimer was devastated by losing his security clearance because it meant he no longer had any ability to influence nuclear policy. You acknowledge Nolan was focused on showing these events through Oppenheimer’s eyes - well, by all accounts that was…

You may have missed it, but Darth Vader may actually be an important figure from Luke’s past!

I did notice that when watching it on a plane and had meant to go back and read into it and forgot about it by the time I got off the plane.   

The twist is that none of the events depicted in the movie actually happen. It is, as we find out at the final credits, a work of fiction and what are known as “actors” and “actresses” are merely pretending to be the people we have been introduced to in the previous minutes.

oh. you’re citing the talented ones.  You forgot Michael Douglas in that case.

I want to say… this site, and Sam in particular, has really become insufferable. AVC used to be rad and insightful! Now it’s Entertainment Weekly without the color. And everyone thinks their weird little disses are so clever, when they really just amount to 3-5 paragraphs of nothing-burger. I’m weaning myself from…

Where do we all stand on nepo baby discourse these days?

Having no signal is actually a good reason to use airplane mode, because otherwise your phone will be using its transmitter at full power trying to find a signal. It’s effectively screaming “Is anyone there? Is anyone there?” and will drain your battery much faster. And if it does find a signal, it will be 6+ miles…

Here's a guy who has never flown frontier. 

The reason to turn on Airplane Mode is because your phone will continuously search for a signal while in the air and drain your battery. 

The timing is just...chef’s kiss.

Seems like you’re one of the people I was describing.

Maybe give it more than 6 episodes next time?

It can’t possibly be worse than True Detective season 2.

I think it would be a fun exercise, if it were possible, to have the people making over-the-top criticisms of this season re-watch season 1 from the same lens. It feels to me that a lot of the critiques of S4 would apply to S1, but they were viewed from a different POV.

I feel like this was just recently announced to spite Pizzolatto, which, good.