Eh, I think that this probably needs to be a fast, difficult-to-predict catastrophe for the premise of the movie to work. Hanks has just enough time to save himself, but not any friends or family to keep him company. If this were sea level change, extreme weather due to warming, or even a cataclysmic meteor strike,…

Wait...I thought you were contributing to my project to erect a Chuck Noland statue on the island of Monuriki! And yes, it has to be a Fat Chuck statue! Building a monument to Skinny Chuck wouldn’t make any sense!

The Baby Inspector failed by not insisting that Chet be exposed at birth.

I could write this one: after ten years, he’s pretty sick of that one copy of Playboy, and is heading West in desperate hopes of finding a greater variety of porn.

I’m looking forward to the dog’s closing narration: In the fullness of time I grew to doghood, and then I became the leader, the chief of the Great Northern Tribe. And Finch? That was the last we ever saw of him. The robot still sucks at driving, though...

According to Wikipedia, Orff’s 1931 piece is a reworking of a composition from the 16th Century. I’m guessing Scott used it (or rather Hans Zimmer’s reworking of it) because of Tarantino’s clear nods to Badlands in the script.

Some odd things here:

...which was almost exactly the same as the dropoff from Star Wars to Empire.

Rey knows that mind-tricking (and “lifting rocks” with your mind) is a thing because it’s part of the legend of Luke that everybody is familiar with by the time of the Sequels. At the time of A New Hope, the Empire has suppressed knowledge of the Jedi so much that Luke isn’t aware of them at all, even though the Order…

Not an AOC hater, but she doesn’t beat Schumer. Schumer isn’t a great majority leader, but he’s always been an amazing retail politician.

I doubt Ford had any requirements other than “Are you sending my money in a single truckload, or is it coming in a fleet of smaller trucks, like Ford F-150s? I’m not sure how the neighbors would feel about an 18-wheeler making its way down the lane to my house.”

I was in a similar position (I quit sometime before the Yuuzhan Vong). I only wound up going back to the EU because my kids loved it as bedtime reading, and a ton of it was available on Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service. As always, the quality on these things fluctuates wildly, but that series and a companion series…

You’re judging Feige’s results after 23 films with, lets be REAL clear about what “ground up” means, FIFTEEN Marvel films he was Producer on before hand, starting with the X-Men and Spiderman franchises at Fox and Sony in 2000, to prepare him for his role as IP curator and President.

Into Darkness was an opening-night disappointment for me. My brother actually turned to me during the Kirk death scene and said, “Right now, I feel nothing.” I couldn’t disagree.

I would love to know exactly why she’s at fault for everything wrong with Star Wars, yet she can’t possibly be responsible for, say, Shaymalan’s best work (Sixth Sense and Signs) or Zemeckis’ best work (Back to the Future and Roger Rabbit), Eastwood’s surprisingly excellent romance, or much of Spielberg’s later oeuvre.

Nice! Did you ever read the EU The Last of the Jedi series? It starts kind of like your proposal, except in true EU fashion the series quickly has Obi Wan punt primary protagonist duties to Ferus Olin, a former Padawan-turned-PI (and, for a while, the EU’s most prominent gay character), with a frequently-indisposed…

Did they also run the “news” back in April that Trump was going to be back in office by August?

Supposedly, while Abrams was still a teenager, he went with his dad to test screening of Escape from New York. In the Q&A afterward, his dad criticized the opening scene, which showed Plissken getting arrested during a bank heist gone wrong, and JJ asked Carpenter what happened to Adrienne Barbeau’s character, because…

That was easy for him to say when he was one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood, harder to say when your phone isn’t ringing off the hook. Still, having seen Ford phone in a decent number of performances over the years, it was a little surprising to see how earnest his performance was in TFA. I was expecting a…

Another pandemic. The way things are going, the current pandemic will still be going strong next April, while Nicki Minaj continues her groundbreaking work, researching the safety of vaccines.