Less than you’d think. High speed internet is much more widely available now, but you’d be amazed at how many people can’t get it. Where I currently live we can only just barely get high speed internet. If we define “high speed” as faster than dial-up. Which it admittedly is. ... ... ... Most of the time...

*screams in horror*

Annnnnd now I have to avoid singing it to myself in public without realizing for the next week. ... Again.

I think “Throw Mamma From the Train” can be forgiven, given that Larry isn’t creating anything. He doesn’t have writers block so much as he’s gone completely obsessive about his first failed work.

I get that, and taking out the banner was silly, but it’d be kinda hard to reference the prequels like they do the original trilogy. Most of the prequel characters are dead. There’s no good reason for clone troopers to suddenly show up after the Empire decided to dramatically redesign everything for no apparent…

Fortunately, I’m one of those people, so I feel I can weigh in on this. I was... about seven, I think, when Phantom Menace came out? The prequels have just about always been there for me.

You’d think that after Quicksilvergate, people would calm down a little about the costumes. I mean, we just had this nonsense with the last film. Maybe the costume will suck on the screen, but I think Days of Future Past made it pretty clear that the pre-release photos are not a good indicator of costume or character…

I was a little miffed by Superman’s suit as well, but it’s not what ruined the new Superman films. ... That was a whole host of other nonsense.

I think that was the case when the original trilogy came out, but the newer ones seem much more comfortable with being... comic book films, basically. I mean, we finally got the Sentinels, people branched out in terms of uniforms, we remembered people who aren’t Wolverine actually exist... the original three are…

Okay, but you can do that and still keep his iconic elements. Doctor Who has thirteen distinct incarnations of its main character and only two of them really broke what made the Doctor who he is. For the Sixth Doctor it, rightly, pissed people off, and for the War Doctor... well the idea that he had discarded the…

The thing is, we can made interesting Superman films. We don’t, but we can. You don’t have to make him brood or kill people in order to make him interesting. You don’t have to remove what makes him what he is in order to explore him. Because, yeah, Superman is hailed as boring by a lot of people. So if you screw up…

Oh, I agree that there are many, better ways they could have handled this, but let’s not pretend the Tibet thing isn’t a concern. They changed it because of the Tibet thing. They really did. They changed it to being a white woman because they’re idiots.

Probably some of them saw the proper Avengers with Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee, which shared production values and a producer with Doctor Who at the time and included, among other things, Christopher Lee as several robotic duplicates, a man shooting another man by putting an unfired bullet in a hole in a wooden…

It’s England and Scotland that are different, not Scotland and Britain.

The UK is the governing body that includes Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. Britain is the landmass that contains Scotland, England, and Wales. Scotland is the country that is Scotland. England is the country that is England. Wales…

I’m surprised Brad Dourif didn’t manage to be an example for “Be Weird.” He’s nearly one of the only watchable things about Alien Resurrection just because he’s the best there is at what he does... and what he does is incredibly weird and creepy. You gotta admire the man’s gift for taking any line, any at all, and…

This is true, but what you do run into is the hoards of people who don’t understand the Magical Negro trope telling you that you’re using the Magical Negro trope. It’s not like the studio actually cares if they are or aren’t doing things right. If people are going to be pissed off about the Magical Negro trope, it…

They aren’t worried about Chinese sensibilities, they’re worried about Chinese money. China isn’t going to ban the entire studio over Kundun having a home theater release. (They’ve had almost 20 years to do so and haven’t, so... yeah...) They WILL ban individual films though. They probably have banned the film, but…

3PO may not know the difference between a computer socket and a power terminal, but R2 damn well should. Hell, he even had to use a different tool than his normal one to stick in there. That probably should have been his tip off. And the fact that he knows 3PO doesn’t know shit. ... No, I gotta say, if your buddy…

I think that largely comes down to the X-Men films basically being... Wolverine films. It was an ensemble film that refused to give any damn screen time to anyone else. (I swear Cyclops got more lines in Superman Returns, as Lois Lane’s boyfriend who no one ever heard of before, then he did in the first two films.)

I’m not sure that’s the case though. The Force Awakens was, while divisive, more popular than the Lucas prequels in spite of being the one to actually include the old characters in a story very much like the first one. And people hadn’t really moved on from Star Wars. They were massively excited about The Phantom…