I remember I was talking to a friend back when Rogue Nation came out and we were saying all the standard shit about how Cruise is increasingly willing to share the spotlight in the M:I movies, and then we were like “And he kind of has an age-appropriate love interest— oh wait, Rebecca Ferguson is 32 and Tom Cruise is…

We looked at Days of Thunder and we looked at the style of it, and we started thinking what would it look like if Tony Scott had shot this, and who would it have been? I looked back at who was the ingenue, who was the breakout star in 1989?

And the narrator had the remark of “eventually Kens will have the same status women have today.”

I LOVE how intentional the phrasing in the movie was in all of the baggage the remark has with it. It can be read several different ways and that’s clearly the intent.

People are really bad with understanding science :(

Yeah it was actually the most tested vaccine in history. We have fallen a long ways after people pounding on doors to get their kids the vaccine for polio

“the Friday actor explained that he didn’t feel safe taking it because he felt that it was a “six-month kind of rush job.”

This “the vaccine was a rush job” shit is so tired. The vaccine is almost 20 years old. It was originally developed back in 2007 for SARS, which came out of China in 2002 (called SARS-CoV-1, if that sounds familiar, COVID is SARS-CoV-2). Since contagious people were symptomatic, it was easier to quarantine people at…

I think they didn’t give a Ken a seat on the Supreme Court, but a lower-level circuit court or something like that.

1) Tucker is a White Supremist, I wonder if they talked about that. 

As well as ceiling droppings, kids diddling the spout to get free samples and supermarket pests stomping in it like Italian wine makers!

I thought it was a great choice, because it’s not as edgy as some seriously douche-bro guitar metal could be from that era...after all, the Kens are all trying to get kisses from their Barbies when they play it. But the lyrics are also perfectly childish, because this is a world designed by little kids, and 6-year-old…

Literally the first two words of the song are “She said.”
But, just like in the 90's nobody paid attention to the opener and since a dude was singing it it was assumed it was from his perspective.

It will be back at Oscar time because Oppenheimer will get a ton of nominations and Barbie will for set design and costumes or something. 

They routinely take less on smaller/passion projects. Doesn’t make sense to take less on a project they’re only doing for the check especially since points are worth nothing as the studio will make sure it somehow turns out to be unprofitable.

It seems to me outside looking in? Obviously I’m not an actor, but ultimately how much each actor gets paid (Outside of the predetermined rated based on what they’re credited as which in turn is dependent on how long a duration of work they do in a project is if they’re apart of the guild?*) is on a case to case basis…

HAH! Integrity demands that I not take credit for that. Happy accident. :D 

I feel ya. My comment wasn’t over just this exchange, as it seems like TLJ just makes fans want to get the knives out. I’ve been thinking about why, and the best I have is that it’s a case of the old fans wanting what they loved vs. the new fans wanting something (ANYTHING) different. Seeing as the product in question…

Yeah, TLJ certainly has issues, but it’s also the only one that doesn’t have numerous and blatant plot parallels to one or more of the original three. TFA being the apparent consensus best of the new trilogy is why I think I’m done with Star Wars for a while. It’s not even bad, per se, it’s just so close to the first m…

The greatest thing about the pilot, and the writers for that matter, is that you can see the shadow of Nibbler under the desk that wouldn’t pay off for a few years. 

That scene is sad by itself, but with the added element of the plot of the episode of Fry choosing not to revive him because he assumes the dog forgot about him and moved on with his life made that scene even more soul crushing