“Predator is like Highlander where the concept is more beloved than any of the movies.”

Except I’m not badmouthing Commando, it’s a great action flick that goes delightfully over the rails without giving a fuck.

Hey, hey, hey...let’s not go badmouthing Commando, the greatest Arnold movie ever made. Not to be confused with the greatest movie ever made with Arnold, which would still be The Terminator. No, not Terminator 2 (which is more of an Arnold movie than a movie with Arnold), not any of The Expendables, Not Maggie, Not Con…

The stench of the undead does tend to... Linger.

Is it weird that I’m really proud of Bautista? He’s had such a fascinating career. Yeah, he does the occasional action movie worthy of his athletic prowess, but then he gets cast in stuff like Blade Runner 2049, Dune, or the new Knives Out. He’s one of the few wrestlers-turned-actors who I feel loves the craft.

To be fair, Lewis Tan is half Chinese. But I have no idea why he couldn’t have played a half-Chinese Johnny Cage. Hell, I was expecting the eye-rollingly blandly named Cole Young to be revealed as Johnny Cage at some point in the movie.

If, for whatever reason, the Shaolin monk Liu Kang can’t be the main character in…

Yes!  Well said.

Russell’s done an amazing job.

Stanley Tucci’s Dr. Erskine is curious why a shrimpy little kid is so desperate to join the war effort, and he tests Steve by asking if he’s just really eager to kill Nazis. Steve says no, he doesn’t want to hurt anybody. “I just don’t like bullies,” he says. “I don’t care where they’re from.”

“The show’s argument, on the other hand, is that John didn’t really become a bad Captain America until he killed a man with the shield in broad daylight.”

This. A zillion times this.

“like why the U.S. government happily handed the shield over to a white guy rather than the Black man who deserved it”

Well, the show is called “Game of Thrones”, but that was only the title of the first book in the series called “A Song of Ice and Fire”, which leans in the exact opposite direction. 

I can agree with the article that the show’s first episode is remarkable and a brilliant introduction, but this is where I am in terms of watching it again. I read someone pointing out how light Game of Thrones’ cultural footprint is only a year or two after its conclusion and that’s stuck with me. Shows like the Sopra…

Yes this. I watched every season over and over and since GOT ended I have not watched a minute of it.

Yes this. I watched every season over and over and since GOT ended I have not watched a minute of it.

Yep. It was a property invested with far more “significance” than it was ever designed to bear.

Not even being hyperbolic, I have never had a show I loved as much as Game of Thrones and was so disappointed in how it ended. I normally regularly rewatch my favorite shows from time to time, but the last season left such a bad taste that I haven’t done that with GoT.

Totally forgot that Conan movie even existed.
Looking back, it turns out I actually reviewed it.
Malingo of the past... did not love it.

I never figured out how GoT made Mamoa look and act so imposing while his version of Conan made him look like just a muscly prop that didn’t seem as imposing.