But in this case, it’s also a dig at its predecessor, a repudiation of Johnson’s attempt to break free of the past and take the narrative in a new direction

io9's review is similar - it takes a while to get good. This seems to have become a problem for a lot of streaming shows. The Boys, Disenchantment, The Umbrella Academy, and Lost in Space all had first seasons that were more first acts. They were more interested in setting up the future than telling a story and seemed…

Even that short paragraph above reminds me how much I love Gary’s sense of humor and way with words. He’s compiled himself quite the legacy. So in light of that, I’m waiting for the news to come out before long that he’s an absolute screaming racist so that one more bit of me can die.

I think Star Wars could’ve been safe and boring, or it could’ve subverted expectations, but it just needed to be consistent and have the same people in charge of all 3 films.

6 to 12 months of misery and then chances are you have signed up for an early heart attack or stroke.

It’s kind of funny because you mentioning that made me realize that Christopher Reeve is the first instance I know of this, adding muscle for a film role. I wonder if he was the first to do so? He said the same thing - pure misery, he hated it. He was a real beanpole too.

It’s like Mac from It’s Always Sunny said: “Look, it’s not that hard. All you need to do is lift weights six days a week, stop drinking alcohol, don’t eat anything after 7pm, don’t eat any carbs or sugar at all, in fact just don’t eat anything you like, get the personal trainer from Magic Mike, sleep nine hours a…

there was a mission in xwing alliance where you’re in an old freighter and have to tug a cargo box across the system or whatever, and a huge squad of pirate y-wings attacks. It took me forever to realize I just have to drop shields, turn off the guns and run in order to win. I still remember it so clearly. It was…

The cars involved are interesting.

“understands the frustrations and lived horrors of modern sexual politics, but stumbles over its scares”

They need to go with something. I’ll serve them with wine and cheese. Someone on a different thread mentioned stuffing them with goat cheese and bacon. Salt and/or sour to cut the sweetness essentially.

I have been chugging tomato juice all of my life (because I adore it), but have never thought of this.

Plus clam juice, horseradish, Tabasco, 2oz Ketel One, pepper and a celery stock to stir.  Now THATS breakfast.

It’s especially weird with American Chinese food. Almost nothing about it is authentic, so why do you care if a Chinese person made it? It’s not like they’re making dishes they would’ve made in their homeland, they’re making heavily bastardized, Americanized versions of those things.

The cultural appropriation thing is hard. Take David Chang is a Korean-American that made his name on Japanese ramen and Chinese buns. Sure he lived and trained in Japan and that’s his general preference, but it’s not his culture because Asian is not 1 culture. But nobody takes him to task for it because most of those…

the only three heros I know: Hero (girl) in Much Ado About Nothing; Hero (boy) in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Hero (me) for not throwing your mom out the limo

I could see a movie that interrogates the fact that these rich, relatively privileged racists are still themselves victims of sexual harassment and really play around with and challenge our sympathies as viewers. That would be an interesting version of Bombshell, but I just don’t see Hollywood making that kind of…

I’m not really a ‘release the cut’ sort of cat, but if they ever come out with it, I’ll probably watch it, just like I’ve watched all the different versions of Blade Runner and do things like try to track down the Director’s Cut of relatively dumb movies like Elektra - just to see what is up with it.

To what extent he’s a Scientologist never really bothered me, I more think he’s insane to complain about a shotgun wedding and a stain on his shirt.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, mainly for the charitable work he’s done for broken robots.