My parents bought a Chevy Cavalier right around 1980. It was terrible, the engine was just shit. The manual transmission seemed like it was fighting against being put into any gear. But it did run, they kept it for ten years and had no real problems with it. Which makes it better than the car they replaced it with: A…

I appreciate the sentiment about shutting troubled projects down and trying to fix them but her quote “Now I imagine all these male actors going, ‘Shut it down for six months!’ And it’s like, f—-, no one told me that was an option.” is a little odd. I mean plenty of male actors have been in shitty action movies. 

The stock market doesn’t care about profits, until it does. But that doesn’t even matter anymore because there is not stock to buy anymore. Musk took the company private. Any new investors would need to do some kind of private placement. ANd people with that kind of money do care about profits and returns.

What do you mean “boom again?” It never boomed before. Twitter has never really been profitable. 

That’s for a court to decide. 

Defrauding stupid people is still fraud. Yes, the victims were dumb, but the perpetrators still committed a crime.

Doesn’t: “overlong, overwrought. None of the scenes flow and pace is virtually non-existent. Characters making portentous speeches that add up to nothing. An antagonist (lopsidedly) way more interesting and charismatic than any protagonist.” pretty much describe all the Marvel movies? 

Yeah, this was probably just one guy who bought one ticket for $180 million.

Hot take: All these Bond movies are overrated. Seriously, I feel like Bond gets a free pass from critics and the internet. Like when a new Star Wars, or Avatar, or Terminator, or Predator, or really whatever franchise movie comes out, there’ all this grumbling about “who really wants another one of these” or “Is this…

Or Rome’s. 

At first I was typing out a list like yours (but I actually had different examples, which shows how many examples there are, but I decided to go with the short comment.) I mean the sequels feature one of the most beloved characters in film history getting murdered by his own son!

I think Dedra was slightly intrigued by Syril. Not in a normal romantic way but in some creepy BDSM way. I can see her being a hard dom and Syril being her whimpering pathetic sub.

The first Star Wars movie featured the massacre of a billion people just to make a point. It’s always been grim and brutal.

You may have noticed that the Star Wars universe has pretty advanced technology. With all the credits Andor has, it isn’t hard to believe that the fake ID he  bought included some way to alter fingerprints and DNA signatures (or whatever the Empire’s standard biometric thing is.) Have a little imagination. 

It’s about an interview with this site that was posted yesterday but it’s barely an article. 

Yeah, the before times.

And the “I’d like an Emmy, please” joke doesn’t even make sense. Like, we are supposed to mock the guy for doing a good job? An actor can’t just do some good acting? 

He’ll be gone soon enough anyway.

It wasn’t set in space to “make you forget what it was copying.” It was set in space because space is cool AF and setting it there would sell tickets. I think Cameron was fine if we remembered what he was copying. 

I will give Avatar credit for creating the only fully realized truly alien world in film. All the Star Wars alien planets are just different Earth environments (desert planet, ocean planet, beach planet, forest moon, etc.) none of them are really alien. So many sci-fi movies and shows just have regular forests stand…