I didn’t love Generations, but looking back at it, at least it was trying. There are personal stakes for the characters, like Picard facing the fact that because his brother and nephew are now dead, his family line now ends with him, Data and the emotion chip, that kind of thing. The Kirk part of it was unnecessary…

I think they toss out all of that character development with a single line where Worf says being an ambassador “didn’t work out.”

The Sheen part of this gets overstated, I think. At that point, Lowe and Kelly were movie stars, and I bet that Sorkin’s pitch for the show included something like “St. Elmo’s Fire goes to the White House” because the pilot’s vibe is like you had a St. Elmo’s sequel, just with Lowe in the Judd Nelson part. A story of…

It’s like the scene in Sexy Beast where Ben Kingsley stands there, looking into a mirror, growling insults at himself until he explodes in a rage at all the people in the movie who’ve been very careful not to insult him and mostly just want him to leave them in peace. I wasn’t angry when Left Behind made money, I’m…

Maybe I’m misremembering the OBJr incident, but that always seemed to come more from Dunham’s raging insecurity about her attractiveness than any actual racism. I agree that Spears’s motivations weren’t racial—she’s lived her whole life in a bubble, and not one of her own making. From inside that bubble, I’m sure it…

I can’t remember: did Romijn actually have a line in that scene? I remember it took me three viewings of First Class to realize that was her, because she looked so different playing above her “I’ll do this scene wearing nothing but blue paint and strategically placed latex appliances!” weight (still gorgeous, just…

I feel like that was the exact issue under contention with Romijn, and that it turned out that he, in fact, could not.

Her hand gets lifted, because they slap her hand off of Wenbanyama, which is a pretty basic reaction for security to have for some random person running up and touching their protectee. It looks like she wanted to tap him on the shoulder, only managed to touch his lower back because she’s short, he’s a giant, and he’s…

Why does it look like he’s surreptitiously waving a visible fart cloud with an airplane in it at that woman?

No, and he’s credited only as “Fedora” on IMDB. I’m trying to remember which podcast I heard the Ravenwood factoid on, but every movie podcast I follow has done Indiana Jones eps recently in preparation for Dial of Destiny (and most have specifically done Last Crusade). Maybe the Rewatchables?

And that’s pretty much the opposite of what the review has to say about the movie, which has a “meandering plot that lacks any sense of urgency or personal stakes.” If anything, the headline should’ve been “Harrison Ford Doesn’t Go to the Whip...”

Yeah, what little we see of him in Raiders isn’t pitiful, he’s slick, a mover and a shaker. There’s a great moment when Indy’s showing him other artifacts he picked up in the adventure at the beginning of the film, trying to convince Brody to finance a trip to get the idol back from Belloq. And Brody’s kind of…

“...or ancient Greek?”

And even more pertinent to this comments section, it was a shock, after a late career stretch where he phoned in a lot of performances and with him pretty much treating Star Wars with disdain from the end of the Return of the Jedi publicity tour on, to see the enthusiasm and effort Harrison Ford brought to TFA. It was…

I love Logan, and I hope against all hope that the Dial of Destiny is good. But Jimmy Mangold seems like a tough hang. It’s funny that every time he speaks to the press he talks as if franchise work is beneath him, and yet he’s always taking on franchise work.

That’s interesting, but the big problem, the reason you can’t do the Cimmerian approach with the world of Marvel and DC, is that the conceit of those superhero comics is that the world of the heroes is a world much like our own present-day existence. And it’s a different world outside in 1980 than it was in 1968, and…

It’d be rare for the membership to reject the tentative agreement, and the DGA is typically the Hollywood guild with the greatest affinity for management. However, we can hope that maybe something like this galvanizes their membership to realize that AI stands to threaten their jobs, too, and that the platitudes on AI …

The backlash would be the people on strike, who are currently slowing down all their productions, and the possibility that SAG-AFTRA could join them, which would actually cripple Hollywood. The writers strike hasn’t really shut things down because the studios stockpiled scripts and are trying to brazen through…

The DGA settled two weeks ago:

Why would Gunn want to set up his universe in any way that tethers it to Ezra Miller? The first version of the ending was Keaton and Calle (because that was Hamada’s idea for a soft reboot), the second version of the ending had Keaton, Calle, Gal Gadot, and Henry Cavill (during that short period when Cavill was coming…