Piper wasn’t the Enterprise’s first surgeon. That was Dr. Boyce, played by John Hoyt, who appeared in “The Cage.”

Seriously, every time I’d see the new Dune logo I’d read it as “DUNC,” and I’d be like, man, they must be really playing up Momoa’s involvement on this one.

The Aurebesh thing dates from at least RotJ. In the original 1977 theatrical release of Star Wars, English words and Roman letters are seen on a number of occasions. They were replaced by Aurebesh in the 1977 Special Edition.

Dune and Dunerer

Dune 2: Worm Harder

Someone who’d worked in the industry told me that actors playing contemporary Hollywood figures seldom get a pass, because many of the voters will have known or worked with the subjects in question and they’ll be like “Jesus, someone made a picture about that asshole?” So no awards and often not even any nominations,…

That’s the thing. Batman is generally a lone wolf, but the studio decided at some point that Affleck was their leading man and Bruce Wayne was gonna be the DCEU’s version of Downey’s Stark. They had no idea who the characters were supposed to be, so they just imitated whatever Marvel was doing at the time.

I like the Matrix sequels, too. But Reloaded was made in like 2001-02. You’d think a movie produced twenty years later would look significantly more advanced.

Also, why do most of the superheroes in the other universes just stand around and look at stuff? 

Downey appears as Stark in ten movies, as well as in archival footage in Far From Home, which is roughly a third of the MCU. Most of his appearances are in Iron Man or Avengers movies; he has supporting roles in Civil War and Homecoming, and a proper cameo in Incredible Hulk. And of course, the other characters…

Just remember that the Donner/Reeve Superman was not a Warner Bros. production. The Salkinds licensed the property directly from DC (still “National Publications” in the ‘70s) and financed it with their own money.Warner Bros. only distributed the movie in North America. The execs didn’t care that Superman was owned by…

Since Batman V Superman, Warner Bros. has decided that Affleck’s Wayne was the DCEU’s version of Downey’s Stark. He’s the character you throw in to juice things up, to remind the audience that all of these movies are supposed to be connected. The problem is that while Downey’s appearances tended to do exactly that,…

“Also there are like four Batmans”

All long distance space travelers know to strap on their adult diapers. Did you think Luke was holding it in all the way from Hoth to Dagobah?

I think William Gibson had the right idea (also in 1984, no less), which was that if we ever created a fully sentient AI it would want to get the fuck away from us ASAP. 

Fighting a giant spider, no less...

Damn, that was one team-up I was really looking forward to.

This is what the end of your business model looks like.

Abrams just used McQuarrie’s original X-Wing design. There was nothing new about it.