I’m less interested in the next Star Wars, and far more interested in “the next Dune as interpreted by Jodorowsky”. I want something crazy and weird but also fun and impish.

I wouldn’t say Ant-Man was stale, but it was very much by-the-numbers filmmaking. It wasn’t bad- it was lightweight fun- but the only moments where it got inventive were in some of the set pieces. It really does make me wish we’d seen where Edgar Wright was going, because the hints of his touch that made it into the…

Hey, I don’t want to tell the DP how to do his job or anything, but you could stand to open up the aperture a little more, maybe let some light hit the sensor in the back of the camera? Or maybe kick the ISO up? Because 90% of that trailer was shadows in front of shadows.

Barrowman, saying what we’re all thinking!

Says you. Unless you’ve built a few stellar habitats, I wouldn’t be running around claiming, “Oh, it’s easier to build a new stellar habitat than it is to move a civilization between stars!”

A character can be as douchey to the other characters as they like- but they should never annoy the audience.

Chemistry? Probably (hope they work out Hawkdouche). Plot holes? I expect loads of them.

Give Ohio Player to Firestorm, give Heatwave “Fire” by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

I thought it was more, “Come out to the parking lot so I can kick your ass,” and then Sarah layers on the innuendo as a way of insulting the biker dude.

In the 1960s, that was a bit of a distinction without difference. The USSR was one big monolith in Western perceptions (and honestly, in how the USSR presented itself to the world).

Shatner’s hammy style gets a lot of criticism, but in TWOK, note when he’s at his hammiest and when he’s not. The hammiest moment is easily “KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!” But what’s going on here? Kirk has a plan. He already knows that he’s not actually trapped down here, that the Enterprise is coming to the rescue. He has no real…

This isn’t really true. *First Contact* is a poorly scripted action movie, and even adjusting for the 90s, the special effects don’t support the story they’re trying to tell. But hey, Ensign Exposition from that film went on to be Damien Dahrke, so he’s got that going for him.

It… does? The only good part of the film I can remember is that it ended.

The thing is, I think their origin can be a lot of fun, if you embrace the silver age nature of it. Basically, a good FF movie needs to have a lot of super science, and a lot of giant monsters. Their origin is super science.

Because rivets are all 99 of them. And actually it’s like 1,000 problems, because that’s how many rivets I have.

It’s still mind boggling that the closest they ever got to a good FF movie was when they gave Corman $1M and said, “Get this done in a month or we lose the rights.” It’s not good, but at least it’s fun.

Now, this may be a little too close to his jaunt as Ant-Man, but stick with me: Paul Rudd as The Stainless Steel Rat. I’d also accept Nick Frost, because honestly, he’s got the requisite charm. Angelina is more of a trick to cast…

But the universe is old, so it’s pretty unlikely that civilizations were just getting started. The Earth is a baby planet next to a start that’s just hitting its adulthood, in the same way a college student is an “adult”.

Red Dawn: The Game.

Part of the Drake equation is “the average length of time that a technological civilization exists”. We hope that this is a fairly large number, since we are a technological civilization and we want to continue to exist.