Considering TFA’s plummet from its initial peak down through my rankings is only now slowing to a stop, I think it’ll be at least another year before I can accurately assess TLJ for myself.

And besides, whatever was once so “gonzo” about Thompson’s writing has, through years of distilled influence, become conventional.

I hadn’t heard about the movie until I saw the trailer last night before Deadpool 2, and I have to admit I was on-board until the extended ‘puppet jizz silly string’ joke. I was like ‘oh, okay, it’s this sort of movie.’

It feels like a foolish question, but if you have a Crock Pot that doesn’t have a 5-hour setting (mine just has buttons for even numbers, not any sort of dial), do you just set it for 6 and take stuff out an hour early?

Do Dale and Clive simply not talk to each other? We never saw any of the emotional negotiation that lead to the decision to have an open relationship; it was presented to the audience as a bit of a narrative trick. Now, to know none of that emotional negotiation likely even happened feels like a bit of a cheat, for…

Debatably, Rocket already had his emotional journey in Guardians 2.

Given that Josh Brolin made a very similar comment a couple of weeks ago, dropping different names in the process (one of those being Brie Larson), I think we’re seeing deliberately-planted rumors.

It’s interesting how, a couple of weeks ago, Josh Brolin made a suspiciously similar comment with some different name-dropping, suggesting that Brie Larson (who’ll be playing Captain Marvel) was on-set as well.

Odds are the CG will be refined between this trailer and the release so I’m not too worried about that, but the story that this trailer implies... that’s gonna need a lot of alarm-raising reshoots and awkward thinkpieces about franchises and directors’ creative integrity (plus some interview a year down the road that…

Just a bit, yeah. That said, at the time, I was pretty impressed at the sheer balls required to slip in casting suggestions like that.

Honestly, I’d love to see a series adaptation of the Bridge Trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties). If the other comments are any indication, I’m one of the four or five people who actually liked The Peripheral, so I’ll admit I’ve got high hopes for this.

Sounds like Super Troopers got the same treatment that Airplane did in its sequel.

Our local mall food court doesn’t have anything flashier than one of the new wave of frozen yogurt/ice cream places that have been popping up the last few years. But it does have a damn fine Chinese place run by a local businesswoman who’s literally held her spot in the court since the mall opened back in 1991. In…

Many many years ago, a friend was road-tripping across the country with some people, and at one of the McDonald’s in which they stopped someone noticed that it did indeed cost a good bit less in that particular store, and made a big show of ordering each item individually. They were like “So you want the extra value…

Apparently Kara is fine with being the spotter for the A.S.A., but gets all flustered by Jefferson’s arrest. That’s some wonky morality, Kara!

Clive being a hockey fan didn’t take me off guard, but you’re right that we haven’t had anything explicit up to that point to expect it.

I think a lot of that comes down to the fact that in the first couple of seasons, a lot of the brains helped reflect facets of what Liv was going through and gave her context for figuring out where her life is. Like the flashbacks in Forever Knight. I think now they’re emphasizing more on contrasts between the brains…

I figure that it’s the plain and simple fact that for the purpose of keeping the dialogue succinct, ‘nuke’ is a single-syllable word that implies a near-instantaneous, city-wide level of destruction. It quickly emphasizes a degree of scale.

So tragic that this is all happening just when his family’s organization is being subpoenaed and he might have to suddenly stash some assets somewhere.

What’s GL’s next-best-known villain after Sinestro? I’d think Parallax was still near the top.