This isn’t quite the same as an improv project like a Christopher Guest film, where there’s whole scenes mapped out and the actors just create the dialogue. There was no screenplay. There wasn’t even a director on set much of the time. They created damn near everything. Their characters and histories together. Drama…

I’d have shelved him for a tax write-off

Given the obvious trope that Hank should die to “pass the torch” to the next generation, I was actually pleasantly surprised he even survived the first one, and it would be even more boring to kill him off now. BUT that doesn’t mean he needs to continue being in the movies. He’s old, let him retire. Especially now…

Nah, it’s just (really good) flavor text. The intriguing weirdness and specificity of the lore dialogue adds authenticity and character, and it’s fun to listen to the actors say it. But the lore itself is absolutely inconsequential. You could chop it all out and replace it with completely different cryptic…

People keep using The Lego Movie as a point of reference for adapting plotless video games, but like.... everything in The Lego Movie is made of Legos. Legos comprise the very substance of the film, both in the actual construction of nearly everything on screen, and in its thematic exploration of what playing with…

Wouldn’t every episode of this show be a Christmas special? Well except for the big Easter finale I suppose.

Alright, but *apart* from the Autobahn, Volkswagen, the U-boat and the V2 rockets.... what have the Nazi’s ever done for us!??

Who knows why madmen do what they do?

This was definitely the best sound in a Nolan film, for what that’s worth. Also, didn’t sound used to be divided into two categories? Editing and design or something? Because it should be.

We did the double feature. My wife dressed in all pink and I dressed in all grays.

Better lawyers yes, but also a better defense. The way to enforce gun safety on a set is to hire someone specifically to be in charge of enforcing gun safety on set - which was Gutierrez-Reed. The burden to put criminal responsibility on Baldwin will be higher.

Possibly. I wasn’t in a big media market.

I can’t agree, I absolutely believe his best work rivals and even surpasses the classical masters in terms of profundity and complexity. And to be clear, I’m not saying his achievements are greater or more important. The masters of today stand on the shoulders of their forebears.

But he is certainly more than just…

I was in fact a kid who loved Batman in the 80s, grew up watching the 60s reruns all the time, and occasionally the Filmation cartoon - and I never heard of the movie until it came out on DVD. It didn’t play on reruns. I guess it did have a home media release in ‘85 but VCRs and tapes were expensive. Like many…

Well to be fair nobody cared about it with Batman because barely anyone was aware of the existence of the earlier film - its memory was simply folded into memories of the show of which it is a glorified special episode. Batman (‘89) was the first “real” Batman movie.

That said, 40+ years is plenty of time to reuse a…

With front man Randy Watson?

Brains are not computers.

And even if they are computers, they are qualitatively different from man-made computers in all sorts of ways that are perfectly discernable, and known, to science and logic. Such as not being digital. Or not “processing information” (if that’s even the right term) sequentially, or in discrete…

It’s timeless, and has become part of the character more than of a particular continuity. Much like how the Watts Spider-man movies stopped making cute little references to the old cartoon theme and just unironically incorporated it into the score.

Okay but... the reboot trilogy IS hopeful. Certainly compared with the classic series, all of which hum with righteous anger at the folly of mankind. Indeed the original is one of the biggest bummers of them all. I wonder how long it’s been since you’ve seen it? I’d call it a stretch to frame Heston as a warrior…

Okay but... the reboot trilogy IS hopeful. Certainly compared with the classic series, all of which hum with righteous anger at the folly of mankind. Indeed the original is one of the biggest bummers of them all. I wonder how long it’s been since you’ve seen it? I’d call it a stretch to frame Heston as a warrior…