Angela Bassett was by far the best part of Strange Days and since I was a teen I’ve wondered why she didn’t get more badass action roles like that. I mean, she has, but no the amount I’d expect.

The debut drifted into the pandemic year, and while folks talked about it, I think it was mostly to point at the finale and go: “What the absolute fuck was this nonsense?”

I see Raised by Wolves has no intention to actually start making sense anytime soon.

I still remember doing Bye Bye Birdie, in high school in the 90s, complete with the attempted gang-rape scene. It was “funny”! I think most productions skip that sequence, as it adds basically nothing and, uh, isn’t funny at all.

When I say “underrated” I mean “better than its reputation”. Like, yeah, it’s a mess of a movie, and as much as it’s constantly trying to chuck jokes into the script, it leaves half of them on the floor and the other half don’t really pay off. But it’s also not the disaster its reputation gives it.

Yeah, the strip tease scene is really weird and awkward and uncomfortable. I think you’re right that True Lies is overrated, and contrariwise, Last Action Hero is underrated.

I would say Howard the Duck isn’t as bad as its reputation, and that’s really to its detriment. Like, yes, it’s got lots of weird choices, especially for a… kids? movie. Tonally its all over the place, but it somehow ends up being more boring than interesting.

Look, I know that theater-people have their own… colorful traditions, but it still boggles my mind that someone had to explain to Barrowman “uh, don’t whip your dick out as a joke.”

An interesting encounter with Astra? That’d be a first.

I’m thinking of Spooner as a Mick-replacement. In that case, “Shoot first, ask questions never,” is definitely the kind of thing we’d want to have stick around. You need at least one murder-hobo on the crew.

Oh, you misunderstand me. If I just wanted to run towards post-hoc rationalizations, I’d just pick one school of ethics and stick with it. It’s a lot easier to twist a single school of thought to justify whatever conclusion you want than it is to do the same thing with three or four. I’m approaching this from the…

I didn’t mean to imply that an original film caused that- just that the prospective main character saw her trauma recreated in film, and I don’t mean a literal recreation, at least within the premise, though in the execution I already predict it will be exact copies of her experience.

I mean, the horror movie premise of “victim is retraumatized by recreations of her trauma, but are the recreations real?” is a great premise. I think attaching it to Faces of Death is the same cynical cash-in sorta name recognition thing as any other deal like this, and I suspect that it’s going to try and coast on…

I mean, in those terms, it’s almost more of a two-for-one deal. The most annoying character and the most boring Vulcan in Star Trek history.

Well, now we’re just shifting the number. What if it was just one person who needed to be tortured?

But again, the trolley problem is just a problem, it’s an exercise to test ethical reasoning, not a form of ethical reasoning itself. Under a deontological model, you could easily argue that touching the lever in any case would be unethical. The whole “trade one life for two lives” aspect is a very consequentialist…

That’s a common objection to Utilitarian ethics! If you could build a utopia, but had to torture 49% of the people in that society to make it happen, under Utilitarianism, that’d be perfectly valid!

What debate? Janeway murdered Tuvix.

I have a sudden urge to go watch Beyond the Black Rainbow after this teaser.

I mean, we can expect at least 10 others existed at some point.