This sums it up pretty well. Big “just asking questions” energy throughout.

UFS’ platform has always favored big-name actors over the rank-and-file, and that has the knock-on effect of their policies also benefitting studios over regular working actors. Drescher, like Carteris before her, is doing what UFS has always done.

Godfather III on its own isn’t nearly as bad on its own as something like Highlander II. I’m not going to say it’s good or anything, especially with Sofia Coppola dragging down every scene she’s in, but its biggest problem is how badly it pales in comparison to the first two films.

And it wasn’t the only time that Scott took over a role from Cobb. Cobb had played Juror #3 in the 1957 version of 12 Angry Men and Scott took over when they did a TV remake in 1997.

I give movies a wide berth when I see them in the theater. While I’m in there, I try to put myself in a headspace to enjoy the film no matter what and I’m usually successful even if I realize soon after that it was terrible.

Very true, and that’s a big reason why The Godfather: Part II stood out so much. An earnestly made sequel was rare enough back then, a good one even rarer. A great one was almost unheard of.

Gah, there was so much dumb shit in that movie. I guess Shatner looked at the success of the previous film and figured he should insert humor and wacky hijinks, but pretty much all of them fall flat.

After yesterday’s Lower Decks, I was ready and waiting for a Moopsy plushie.

Maybe my recollection comes from only dealing with Intel CPUs if it’s not simply entirely outdated, which it may be. I didn’t generally go six years between upgrades and yet when I did the then-current CPUs were a different socket from the one I had and usually also required a different memory standard.

No one enjoys spending $400 on a new CPU, but we also spend $400 on a new console every six years.

Yeah. I’m a Bethesda fan and I like Todd Howard, and I understand why he feels he can’t say it, but I’d respect a very simple response like “yeah, vehicles would be cool and we would’ve preferred to include them but CE simply won’t let us do that; we’re hopeful that Starfield 2 will have that functionality when it…

It seems, though, that the technical limitations drove the creative decisions (compromises, really) that are designed to ameliorate them. Which is fine, but I can certainly understand kvetching about the engine’s limitations requiring those compromises.

I see this a lot with Fallout 76, and it’s made me think that there’s no point in Bethesda considering adding in another DLC a la Steel Dawn/Steel Reign if they had been in the first place. The people who complain about no new content will speedrun it in two days or whatever and then go right back to complaining,…

I remember being a kid and seeing relentless commercials for Dianetics and had absolutely no idea it was part of a religion. I just thought it was a self-help movement since, like you say, there were endless numbers of those at the time.

That’s the first thing I thought of, too. 😂

Microsoft’s “most played, next-gen exclusive.”

He definitely strikes me as a Jill Stein voter.

I’d love to see the Lifetime version of Synecdoche, New York.

I wonder if that can be worked around by using CarPlay or Android Auto, but probably not.

House II is one of my favorite underrated movies, and I long wondered why Maher didn’t get more acting gigs given that he played such a note-perfect smug, entitled, tone-deaf, sleazy asshole. And then I found out he wasn’t so much acting as just showing up on set and being himself and remembering to react when people…