That does sound like it would be a pain in the ass, but at the same time if it results in a better product that’ll paper over a lot of ass-pain. The last-minute suggestions that improved the show end up making the writers and everyone else look better.

Yeah that’s a fair point. I think we took movies like Predator more seriously back then too, while now I can see the somewhat satirical nature of it.

I guess I would say that it has been long enough to say that she continues to have pull and get cast—and while online is rightly a different place than ticket sales, it’s not completely devoid of influence or merit. It’s a bit of a weird period, since the pandemic years have been uneven at best, but steady work counts…

I’m torn. One hand, yeah, our sexist culture probably did overreact to her comments. Yeah, she could’ve handled those things differently.

...Other hand, she thought producing and starring in The Ugly Truth was a good idea. I refer to that movie as, “Impressively sexist.”

One of the finest moments in cinema.

Contrast all of that to the boost that Dakota Johnson gets for similar plays--though she seems to get credit for seeming not to care. Caring about things differently is probably the worst sin.

TIL those two are related.  Cole is absolutely the superior talent.  I know opinions around here vary on Tombstone but he chews the fuck out of the scenery on that show and seems to love doing it.  It took me about half a season to realize he’s the same guy from Good Will Hunting and Pitch Black.

At the time nobody was expecting something like that, everyone thought it was going to be a regular Ahnold  movie.

Now U C M3.

Blade Runner with just Ridley Scott is Black Rain. Alien with just Ridley Scott is, well, Prometheus.

Dog Soldiers absolutely rules - I very vividly remember laughing that the dude from Dog Soldiers was playing Alfred when Gotham came out.

Is Buckaroo Banzai a subversive action film?

i’ll make a case for Executive Decision: every decision in the carefully planned rescue mission goes horribly wrong, and the movie is about recovering from those badly executed moments.

The bit that cemented Cruise to me as one of the finest actors around was when he swaggers into Brendan Gleeson’s office, all Madison Avenue slickness and Don Draper Charm, with the friendliest smile on his face, and then Gleeson tells him he’s not here for PR, he’s going in with the first wave.

Brotherhood of the Wolf was pretty awesome.

Set it Off was so so good. I saw it as a double-feature with Bound at an LGBTQ film fest, probably ranks as a top-5 double feature for me.

Last Action Hero is up there in my top 10 favorite action movies. I love that people appreciate it more these days because I was like the only person laughing my ass off in the theater when I saw it.

I think Rabin is working overtime to try to imbue a wealthy white woman in mostly shitty films as some revolutionary iconoclast because he has a crush on her. Yeah, born with “zero fucks to give” usually DOES come after being born into fortune and entitlement.

This is insane. Johnson is not giving some kind of subversive performance, she is often the key reason why the acting and dialogue is so weird and stunted. She fails to connect with anyone or have an ordinary human conversation with anyone in the cast. She also does CPR hilariously wrong, which is great given they…

My opinion is that she’s a spoiled nepobaby who doesn’t mind shitting on projects she was in because she was born where she’s never had to worry about paying her bills. So what if shitting on the movie hurts the other people involved in making it? She’ll be offered roles in the future and if she doesn’t, oh well, she…