Just want to call out that she did a phenomenal job with the character in the first movie. It’s hard to explain, but she played the popular girl type so well. She comes off as a genuinely fun and decent person who is at the same time aware of her looks and how Peter sees her. The way she teases him playfully…

After all these years and all the revelations, it just seems like child abuse to try to have your kid be famous and in show business.

She was definitely the bigger star of the two of them at the time, coming right off of Bring It On. Maguire was mostly an indie actor at the time who had a couple of mild hits, but nothing huge. He definitely should have been paid more since he’s the star of the film, but it sounds like they didn’t give her what she…

I just rewatched all 3 of these and I forgot how much she’s in them. She definitely tries her best with the very weak romance threads that Spider-Man 2 has

The world adjacent to vast sums of money is filled with professionally driven behaviour that is very difficult to accept as normal or excusable (nor should it be). But given the stakes to the people involved, it’s not surprising or even rare. I’m not condoning shit like this, but we’re talking about people being on…

“She also recalls that, for Spider-Man, a producer took her to the dentist without her consent in order to fix her teeth. He drove her there without telling her what was going on, and she realized what was happening when they arrived.”

What, and it’s impossible to stress this enough, the fuck.

An accident is not going to cost the railroad anything compared to installing and maintaining hundreds to thousands of minor crossings. Trains by definition nearly ALWAYS have the right of way, and locomotives pretty much always win unless it’s a tanker of gasoline or a coil steel trailer. And a big issue with signaled…

Only if it's a planarian van ..

Another fun part in the bus fight scene:

It is more he was probably so desperate to meet Amazon’s insane schedule he didn’t even have time to look, he’s just focused trying to beat the clock. The ear thing is a hail mary to try and not get dumped as a driver. None of which is ideal, but at some point we gotta have a discussion about Amazon’s driver…

“Ancient immortal warlord here, nine centuries’ experience running my own criminal empire. Finally got to watch Shang-Chi at the weekend, and hoo-boy do we have to talk about the logistics of the Ten Rings. 1/”

I’m wondering if he’d have been hurt much worse in a sturdier vehicle — under these freak circumstances, the cab’s parting company so readily with the part that the train hit might’ve saved him a lot of spinning and dragging.

Voldemort deserved to die for the horcrux thing alone. Dude had the foresight to store his soul in various magical artifacts, but instead of burying them in the side of the mountain, or enchanting an old tin can and letting it sink to the bottom of the sea, he instead chose A) objects of enormous, easily guess-able per…

Dobby is a bigger character in the books. His misguided attempts to “help” Harry in the second book are portrayed in a more complicated, ultimately sympathetic light. Plus it is made much more apparent how abusive Daddy Malfoy is towards Dobby. And then he appears in most of the following books and has a lot of charact…

Everything starting with Goblet of Fire on falls into the realm of “it made more sense in the books”.

I enjoyed all the films at the time they came out (with the exception of a slight downer on DH1 which was just a bit, dull). I think what helped is the age of my kids. I think watching films with your kids helps you lean into the sense of wonder, whilst ignoring the plot holes. And what worked well about both the…

If anything here ever should have been a slideshow it was this...

It allows you to use electrical power though, which means that you can avoid the use of fuels that you have to burn. It’s then a question of whether it’s more or less energy-efficient (in total) than a more conventional rocket fuelled with green hydrogen.

As a former PT Cruiser owner, I strongly endorse all 5 of these car options... especially if they come with the manual transmission. 

This might be one of the best unexpected things written here in a while.