Im sorry, this movie is 3 hours and part 1 of 4 with no guarantee anything else will get funded? By the man behind Waterworld?

It is a fun, one of a kind movie 

The term “elevated horror” gets thrown around a lot these days, but you don’t hear much about “elevated action.”

For me Starship Troopers prefigured The Boys as a satire that flew over the heads of at least part of the audience. I know people who to this day do not understand that it is anti-militaristic and take it at face value. (Mond you, these are the same people who laughed instead of cringed at Clint Eastwood’s Korean jokes…

They even got Thomas Ian Griffith to come back out of retirement from acting to reprise Terry Silver, the villain of the terrible Karate Kid Part III! I’m glad they did -- they made the character much more complex than in the film.

Interesting list. One movie that aspired I think to be a subversive action movie but failed was Megaforce.

I’m so glad I’m not alone.  I figured changing menus was part of being a Michelin-caliber restaurant.  But it would drive me nuts if I went to a place I liked, and it was a different damn menu each time.  Eating out is a special thing, and when I go, I tend to like to get my same, favorite dish each time.

That’s postmodern times for you. We applaud all these artists in literature, music, film, etc., whose works rarely ever go beyond pastiche, as if they are the second coming of Jesus, making them rich and famous beyond their wildest dreams. Of course it all goes to their head.

I so vividly recall 6th grade when another student brought in the first book as a sharing thing and multiple kids and the teacher were utterly blown away.

Ah, the Pacific Northwest timber industry. Creators of the finest double-bit axe to come out of the US: the Sager Chemical Puget Sound Falling pattern.

That scene, as full of ham as it is, is THE best scene of the movie.

“JK had done well.  I was proud of her.  JK fucked up good and proper.  You had to hand it to JK.” 

This is going to sound like a backhanded compliment, but I actually mean it. Each of the Harry Potter books really feels like it takes place over the course of an entire year 

I do think a lot of her critics are unintentionally feeding into her sense of self-importance by attributing to her vast power to shape people’s opinions.

Excellent releases today from ex-Sicbay / Dazzling Killmen / Colossamite / Xaddax honcho Nick Sake’s new project Upright Forms . . .

Debbii Dawson’s new EP

Changing your menu daily is madness. I’m not sure what that even proves. 

We can’t write about cars anymore because of woke.

I will go to bat for Tom Petty appearing as a post-apocalypse Tom Petty.

The problem with Costner is that he’s boring. Handsome like a prom king, six-one with broad shoulders, he always seemed right physically for a leading man. But he commands only a modicum of your attention. So while he’s often the protagonist in a movie, a co-star would always take the plaudits, like the bread in a…