This is all probably true, but it’s weird that so many people act as if the only thing that will determine this show’s success is people’s response to the ending of GoT. I’d wager that there are a lot of disappointed GoT viewers who may not be slavering for more GoT-branded shows right now, but who are probably very pe…

Except for that one scene where Vincent was in his janitorial coveralls, everyone wore a nice suit in Gattacca...

By Western standards (which it seems everyone here wants to apply) probably not.

To be fair, he was getting illegal back alley bone-lengthening surgery: all the pain of having your legs broken! all the fun of it not occurring in a sterile operating room or a hospital!

The whole movie is summed up in the what, 8(?) minute scene where they reveal the Enterprise, and the Jerry Goldsmith score starts blasting as the movie cuts between the camera lovingly examining the ship and the two-shot of Kirk and Scottie’s awed faces as they stare out the window of their shuttle. At first, it…

EP’s certainly can have more say than that, but they can also be contractual titles with little or no creative input. Abrams has done a fair amount of both. For example, Abrams had an EP credit on TLJ (a movie he later threw under the bus, saying his involvement was almost nonexistent), but he’s also been pretty…

I feel like the trailers, when they come out, should feature a disclaimer:

I remember that I enjoyed Beyond. Sadly, that is pretty much the only thing I remember about the movie. I know Elba was in it, I know there was a bit with a motorcycle, but damned if I could remember any of the plot.

Yeah, the Johanssen/Disney suit at least involved Disney being inconsistent in how it treated its tentpoles. Given that Disney had taken their sweet time giving Black Widow a movie, making that movie the canary in the coal mine for Marvel releases had a stink of her movie being singled out for shoddy treatment.…

I generally like Groff, but his big “Mr. Anderson!” moment (which IIRC, cut back to footage of Weaving in the first movie, just to make sure we got it) was so unearned. I don’t hate Resurrections, but it’s a movie that invites you to rage quit it multiple times during its running time.

I usually agree, but given that the whole theme of Matrix 4 was bringing people back to life who’d died perfectly serviceable deaths, having Weaving along would’ve at least made sense here. More sense, at least, than it made in Matrix 2 and 3.

Definitely not saying that Reacher’s as good a character as Raylan, just that Olyphant and Ritchson are bringing some of the same acting skills to the table to bring them to life. I was going to expand that thought to say that the difference was the difference between Elmore Leonard and Lee Child, but then I…

Yeah, there are missteps every now and then, but it’s probably the fastest I’ve binged a season in a very long time. Like Olyphant, Ritchson does a great job of balancing humor against how murderous and threatening the character is. It’s a season where Reacher has at least a dozen lines where he has to state that he’s…

...or just shoot his bullet through the middle with a smaller bullet. That’s a total Reacher move.

I don’t think Lucas ever got the inherent friction between the idea of the Force being hereditary on the one hand, and the Jedi being required to be celibate on the other, since both were pretty much dictated by plot expedience. Originally, Lucas’s idea (as told to Kasdan, I think)  was that anyone could use the Force,…

And strangely using it against light-skinned Hispanics, even when there wasn’t any indication that they were trying to hide African/Indigenous heritage or pass themselves off as something else. It’s a very loaded term to use in that context, for reasons mentioned in this article.

Yeah, the same way Goldblum was heavily hyped in the Fallen Kingdom advertising, and then was in the movie for something like 3 minutes, all of them sitting down.

You mean, the “super annoying” droid who most people remember as (at worst) the second- or third-best thing in the movie? The only part of the train heist that I remember clearly was Val sacrificing herself, because Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson were overqualified for those roles. That stuck with me more than any…

Logged in to say pretty much the same. That looks like Buckley’s in a cutscene from Last of Us II.

I’d forgotten that at one point someone at DC thought it was a good idea for a movie’s climactic fight to be Ryan Reynolds, looking like a CGI-enhanced Greek god, beating up on a really unhealthy-looking villain in a wheelchair. It was kind of like the scene in LA Confidential where Russell Crowe has to rough up Danny…