TIL the demonym of Monaco is Monegasque. Thanks!

Yes, I’m not quite grasping the “foreign country changing name of new movie to better suit local market confirms my hate of recent movie and indicates new movie will bomb everywhere” meme.

Goodness this artwork is horrible. As others have mentioned, the color palette is garish, and the the pencils / linework look like someone was trying to trace an existing sketch and had very unsteady hands.

Thousands of (largely male) fans of the original Ghostbusters balked at the idea of their beloved film getting a modern reboot

“were not fired, nor did they quit,”

Yep before (new) Star Trek came out, I read that JJ wanted the engineering section to have an industrial look, then when the movie came out it took me completely out of the scenes because it all looked just like the behind-the-scenes tour of the Budweiser plant in St Louis.

I notice a lot of the American Gods articles both here and at the AV Club almost always use Yetide Badaki in the photo accompanying the article.

It’s cool, full disclosure: (very casual) Astros fan here... and while Drayton McLane left the Astros cupboard bare when he sold the team a few years ago, it wasn’t the complete mess that Loria seemingly left the Marlins in.

First off, whoever made the decision to have him appear on Dan’s show should be fired

Good point, we can all think of examples of leveraged buyouts where a business is mortgaged to the hilt assuming the good times will continue to roll.

Fair point, I heard the lead-up to the interview (and the first few minutes of it) live the other day and while I truly appreciate LeBatard speaking truth to power, it does come across that he’s almost shocked! shocked! that this is happening in baseball in 2017.

Random Questions / Thoughts:

Well, while there is a subset of the public out there turned off by “all that kneelin’ and disrecpectin’” and “wussification” etc., I don’t think it’s anywhere near enough to fill stadiums and / or get TV ratings.

I keep thinking either Paramount’s going to wake up out of a coma or I am.

Wow, just imagine a conversation between those two.

Counterpoint: Papa John’s wasn’t always bad — for a while they were a viable alternative to Pizza Hut (grease - soaked boxes, two-hour delivery) and Domino’s (really were cardboard). And their thin crust was really good.

Gal Gadot and the little girl give one hope for the future.

I’m a guy, and sometimes even I just don’t understand all this. I enjoyed all three of the Soderbergh Oceans films (heck, get me in the right frame of mind and I’ll argue that Ocean’s 12 is a cinematic masterpiece), and this trailer looks entertaining, so why would I not see it?

I saw those books but didn’t realize what they were. I totally missed the boy moving the broom.